Can anyone tell me if the Kokomo Indiana car show is on this year ?
It is usually held the Sunday after the South Bend show .
We usually attend the S.A.S.C.O. swap meet on Fri. and stay over and enter
the car show with our 62 Champ on Saturday (isn,t going to be the same

From my inbox::
1957 Studebaker Transtar,
1 1/2 ton, V8, 4x2, flatbed, hoist, duals, solid, restorable truck.
$1250.00 Phone (507) 251-9091

 Yesterday I had reason to be back inside the Ad building downtown.  As
I grew up,I had plenty of time to explore the old girl as my mother
woked in that building all her employed life as a secretary for the
School corp. Imagine having 1 job your whole life!

Sounds like I will have to "upgrade" to Windows XP in order to
accomodate changes in a database/comms program that I am required to
use for work.
Has anybody here done an install of XP over Win98 in an existing

What did Stude use for a carb on the R3 setup?  I have been told that
when the pressure box is used the carb does not have to sealed.  If so
is the R3 carb the same as the R1?

Has anyone added a remote full flow oil filter to their partial flow 259???
Where would you tap the oiling system and where would you return the
filtered oil?

Out to the shop early today!
Have to finish this group of intake manifolds.
Some new equipment has made the process a little quicker and the results are
improved.

Shop related.....
My 60 gallon Sears oiless direct drive air compressor decided to bust a
piston a while back.
Was using the smaller backup compressor from the garage to fill in.

Forecast for the Tulsa meet---
Some rain clearing by 5pm on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday-
Clear and sunny.

I am amazed at the price these caps are bringing:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4545192613>

Jeff, is your email working? I just got an email boomeranged back to me.
Keith

In the rebuild of my '55 Champion 2-door, it's time to re-install the
cardbaord-jute firewall thing.  My old one is typically cracked and cruddy
and I'm not wild about spending 75 more dollars on something so...well,
dumb.  Yeah, I know things will get warm & noisy without it, so ...

don't know if I posted this... don't think I did actually, I've been
real busy this week... anyway just following up on my vibration issue...
history: '55 Stude coupe, total mutt mechanically, has '63 motor and
late Flightomatic, original 3.31:1 rear end, driveshaft of unknown

  All the etching primer is on, next is the urethane primer filler and
block sanding.
http://stude.com/wrapper/step2.jpg
JP/Maryland