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Ya gotta belive me darling, this is the last one I'll drag home.<G> Thanks to Jeff for preping the pics. Here is a link. http://community.webshots.com/album/423977158fnnolL Very cool!!!!!! It's a Caddy powered Studebaker is it not, or did you score a modified real deal Studillac ? > Ya gotta belive me darling, this is the last one I'll drag home.<G> > Thanks to Jeff for preping the pics. Here is a link. > http://community.webshots.com/album/423977158fnnolL  SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 64 Challenger (Plain Wrapper ?) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 GT Hawk OD. 61 Hawk 54 Starlight I just don't know yet, but I'm trying to run it down. I ordered the production order today, maybe the destination, if its listed will help. The car has an old decal from a college in New York state, on a window, was in Oregon in 65, and Utah at sometime. It's a mystery right now. Nice car!!! Hope it's a genuine Bill Frick Studillac... Bill Frick bought his cars from Balport Motor Sales in Freeport, Long Island. So hopefully that location will show up on the Production order. A few cars were brought to Bill Frick by the owners. Bill Frick would not convert any car with more that 500 miles on it. Cars equipped with the manual floorshift Lasalle gearbox should have a cut out on the frontseat (at least the 1954 Studillacs had them) . There was an interior shop in Carl Place, Long Island that did the interior work on the front seat on those Studillacs because the floor shift would hit the seat. So they made a little cut out for it. Michael Bostedt -1953 Starliner -1953 Starlight http://hem.bredband.net/b284654/ > I just don't know yet, but I'm trying to run it down. I ordered the > production order today, maybe the destination, if its listed will help. > The car has an old decal from a college in New York state, on a window, > was in Oregon in 65, and Utah at sometime. It's a mystery right now. It lookts like Pat's car has the 30's Cad-Lasalle tranny my buddy used on his 52 Studebaker with a Caddy swap, not the 50's unit used on Studillacs, so not seat cut out. > Nice car!!! Hope it's a genuine Bill Frick Studillac... > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>The car has an old decal from a college in New York state, on a window, >>was in Oregon in 65, and Utah at sometime. It's a mystery right now. SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 64 Challenger (Plain Wrapper ?) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 GT Hawk OD. 61 Hawk 54 Starlight I remember you talking about it at SB this spring and now seeing the pics all I can say is it looks great! Congratulations! Bob40 > It's a Caddy powered Studebaker is it not, or did you score a modified > real deal Studillac ? > >> Ya gotta belive me darling, this is the last one I'll drag home.<G> >> Thanks to Jeff for preping the pics. Here is a link. >> http://community.webshots.com/album/423977158fnnolL I am officially jealous - that rocks. > Ya gotta belive me darling, this is the last one I'll drag home.<G> > Thanks to Jeff for preping the pics. Here is a link. > http://community.webshots.com/album/423977158fnnolL SignatureRemove all the x's to email. The only label that fits: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6966.shtml "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Teddy Roosevelt, 1918 1953 Starlight Coupe 1954 Starlight Coupe R1/4-speed 1958 Silver Hawk 1960 Frua Italia Larks (2 - they're here!) 1962 Lark VI 1962 Lark Convertible 1963 Avanti R2 R4324 1963 Lark Cruiser (R2 3/4 clone in progress) 1963 GT Hawk 1963 Daytona Wagonaire 1964 Cruiser (Survivor) 1956 2E7 2004 Porsche Carrera 4S 2000 Ducati 748 2002 Jeep Overland 2004 Ducati Monster 1000 http://homepage.mac.com/pdrnec/PhotoAlbum81.html First the garage, and NOW THIS?! An embarrassment of RICHES! Dave Miller The ultimate score, Congrats Pat, I assume it has a LaSalle Transmission or is it a Stude Bob Whiten Wagonmaster http://community.webtv.net/zzbob/StudebakersandMore Wow, too kool! I stumbled over one of those in a boneyard many years ago but there wasn't much left of it. It was in a part of the yard that flooded a lot. I too am curious about the tranny, Pat. Let us know when you can! Studebaker George I see it's not an automatic trans. Is it an older Cad Lasalle top shift, or an adapted Stude transmission? The best information I've seen on Bill Frick's Studillacs is a '53 or '54 article in either Mechanics Illustrated or Popular Science. The feature I think most likely to survive is an older Chevy crossmember, shaped like the letter "K". It was welded in to support the rear of the transmission, and stiffen the frame. The car in that article had a fabricated adaptor for two Stude air cleaners, and a '53 Merc rear. Frick converted cars that people brought him. I don't know if he took delivery of new cars to convert. I doubt anything would appear on Stude's build sheet to connect a car to Frick. Nice car! Mike M. > Ya gotta belive me darling, this is the last one I'll drag home.<G> > Thanks to Jeff for preping the pics. Here is a link. > http://community.webshots.com/album/423977158fnnolL No matter whether it is an authentic Studillac, it is a very nice car. I don't know how much variation Bill Frick offered and I don't know whether the '54s were more "sophisticated". The '54 Commander Starliner Studillac I looked at in the '70s was an automatic (the old-four speed type) and it had two four barrels with a much neater air cleaner setup. The man who bought it and spent 25+ years researching it and restoring it died a year or two ago so much of the "corporate" knowledge died with him. I am virtually certain that the hood louvers are a later custom touch and the carpet is totally suspect. Somewhere I have pictures of that '54 as it sat in the barn/shed. I'll try to find them and post them. And, I also have the Studillac article somewhere (but may be hard to find). Paul Johnson If you want to talk Studillac's here's a guy who knows them inside and out. Long time owner. His name is Tom Portesy and his e-mail is "grandhawk54" <grandhawk54@yahoo.com>. Regards Bill On LI, NY '55 President '59 Hawk '60 Lark '71 Avanti Yeah Pat, you really lucked up on this one. Thanks a bunch for letting me "drive" the first Stude into the shop my Grandad built, what an honor. Get er runnin, and DRIVE it! Matthew > If you want to talk Studillac's here's a guy who knows them inside and > out. Long time owner. His name is Tom Portesy and his e-mail is [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > '60 Lark > '71 Avanti |
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