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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / November 2005Savannah to Madison with a little Lark
My friend Terry bought a '63 Lark, silver 4 door 6 cylinder manual 3 speed, that is in Savannah, Georgia. We will be flying there on Saturday and driving it back, hoping to arrive in Madison, WI on the next Monday. The car's previous owner is putting us up for the night and we'll be staying with relatives in Nashville overnight on Sunday. We're packing our tools and getting our spare parts in a pile. If you see us moving along the road, smile and wave. If we aren't moving please come and help us push. Please feel free to lend advice or wish us luck. We'd like to make this a longer pleasure trip, but we need to get back to work. At any rate it will be an adventure! Tim K. Please tell me it's a manual with working overdrive, otherwise it will be a adventure.<g> > My friend Terry bought a '63 Lark, silver 4 door 6 cylinder manual 3 > speed, that is in Savannah, Georgia. We will be flying there on [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > get back to work. At any rate it will be an adventure! > Tim K.  SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 R1 Gt Hawk 62 Lark 2 door 61 Hawk 60? Hawk 55 custom HT 53 coupe rod. 53 Starlight I dearly wish I could! I'm hoping for a reasonable rear axle ratio. We may have to take shifts and drive it around the clock. TimK. I would not push the little six too hard. I've found that if they have a few miles on the clock, they tend to blow oil out the breather if you try to run with freeway traffic without overdrive for hours on end. > I dearly wish I could! I'm hoping for a reasonable rear axle ratio. > We may have to take shifts and drive it around the clock. > TimK. SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 63 R1 Gt Hawk 62 Lark 2 door 61 Hawk 60? Hawk 55 custom HT 53 coupe rod. 53 Starlight You do realize Nashville is 629 miles from Madison. That's going to be a long, hard day. Is this the Lark that's been floating around on the internet/Ebay a few times? Good luck! Mark > I would not push the little six too hard. I've found that if they > have a few miles on the clock, they tend to blow oil out the breather if [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 53 coupe rod. > 53 Starlight 10.5 hours at 60 MPH 12.5 hours at 50 MPH. I'd take some good magazines and relax with fewer worries. 12 hours isn' that bad, even if only one is driving. Karl I have a 60 Lark 6 2dr no overdrive that i drove from San Angelo Tex, to Tulsa Ok, drove it 65 to 70 all the way to Oklahoma City, Hit the turnpike to Tulsa (75 mph speed limit) Put the pedel to the floor and never lifted till i got to the Tulsa city limits. 78 mph for 1 hr 20 minutes, The Lark never missed a beat, this was 3 years ago. Bob Whiten Wagonmaster http://community.webtv.net/zzbob/StudebakersandMore Thankyou for the inspiration Bob! Tim K. I do hope someone has gone through the brakes and repacked the wheel bearings before embarking on an adventure like this..... Yes, supposedly brakes and bearings have been seen to. The other info on the car is that has 33000 on the clock now with only 2000 in the last 4 years. I only know of it being on e-Bay once, but I don't watch it much. Are we crazy or what? I'll keep my ears open and we'll try not to push it to hard. We'd probably better look for some 2 lane roads to give it a break. Yes that last day is going to be a killer. It will remind me of being in the back seat of a '65 valiant in '66 when I was 14 and traveling out west. At least this time it won't be 90 degrees! Oh, and we're taking the roster so you'd all better take your phones off the hook. Tim K. |
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