I received an email from a friend of mine who is into Desoto and
Chrysler products. He told me he visited a Studebaker fan in West
Virginia and most of his collection of cars were orphan brands.  He
took my friend into one of his garages where he showed him a 1963 Lark
two door sedan that is black.  The man claims Studebaker only made six
such sedans in black.  He also claims his Lark is one of only two
produced that are equipped with a Perkins diesel engine and the only
one with a diesel and automatic.  My friend said the car was in very
good shape and only has 40K miles on it.  The owner did not start it
for him as he said it currently has injector issues.

I wanted to know if any of you are familiar with this collector and
his Lark.  I'm in the North Texas SDC and I would like to tell the
club about this Lark at the next club meeting.  If I had more
information about the collector and the Lark, it would make the
discussion more interesting.

Thanks,
Richard Yeats
NTSDC