On Monday or Tuesday I called Black
Diamond Tires to get a replacement for
the tire that burned. I was told that
this was their busy season, and they
cannot get that specific tire as it was
discontinued. It would take 3 to
possibly 4 weeks to get a tire. I said
no problem, read read back my address
and my original order from the year 2000
and that was that.

At 3:30 this afternoon the mechanic
called the car was done but they need a
tire, should they buy one or what? I
said I have 5 radials here that came off
the cars I will be right down.
Threw a tire into a car and delivered
it. drove home and UPS is in the
driveway. He starts off loading cases of
shirts and I am writing checks, and the
driver says,, hey Bill, I got a tire for
you................ I almost pissed in
my pants.

Back down to the mechanics praying that
he did not  mount the one I delivered 30
min earlier/ He was just about to, but
we got the Black Diamond on.

The owner of the shop is totally amazed
with the network Studebaker has,
overnight, I had a drum, hub and
hardware flown in, actually a nice sized
list of parts he needed. he figured it
would take me a month to get a drum and
some other stuff. He then told me that
he was in Yonkers NY early this am at a
junk yard. The owner was on the phone
with somebody looking for parts for a 57
Golden Hawk.

When I brought in the special made tire
it was like the last straw, he only
wants to work on Studebakers now. For a
car company that went by by almost 40
yrs ago, to be able to get parts next
day or for that matter same week is a
mind blower. He has waited a week or
more for a part needed foe a one year
old car.

BG