finishing up the hawk brakes. got the caliper bracket clearance with
the turner brakes / cragar wheels straightened out. bled brakes with
wifes help, still pretty spongy - need more bleeding. I got the car w/o
a hydrovac or remove reservoir hooked up ( factory disk car). I've got

Anyone else get the "eBay" "URGENT SAFEHARBOR DEPARTMENT NOTICE"
Karl

I do not know how to put a forward thingi here. But I have an e-bay
question. there is a silver Hawk on ebay that looks like a good deal
but there are almost no bidders. the car looks like a steal, or are
there factors that I am not aware of. I paid almost 3 times the amount

I added the stock under dash A/C to my 63 Cruiser.
The installation looks fine.
How ever, on a 90+ day, it would tend to run very hot on the hiway with the
A/C on. The car had a "clutched" 5 bladed fan.

Here's another nice one going high:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4556101563

You want those big Studebaker dealer letters from Newman and Altman that you
bid on a while back?  They're BIG and HEAVY - 3 pieces - Ist set is S_T_U
2nd is D-E-B-A and the third is K-E-R.  Some of the letters are pretty rusty
and floppy on their bases from transporting them but ...

Sent to me by a Porsche-driving friend... make sure you look at the Q&A
at the bottom
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4554570060&rd=1&ss
pagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
nate

I have a '52 2R truck and have installed a 283cu. in. chevy motor. I can't
seem to able to find an exhaust manifold that will clear the steering and
shift columns. Anyone have any suggestins?

Here's the link to the prestigious Indianapolis Concours Grand Prix
that will be held next Saturday (June 18, 2005) at Monument Circle in
the center of downtown Indianapolis. It is free to any and all who want
to come:

My Avanti used to always run very hot. sometimes it hit the right side peg,
and then it was time to shut it down for a while.
I had to replace the 289  with a 259.
One of the things I did to help the cooling problem, was to add a small

Can the 8 MM plug wires be used on the Stude distributors or are they
only for HEI systems?
Thanks
AlexM

Gotta get ready early this morning....
A certain magazine photographer is coming over to do a magazine shoot this
morning...
We'll see if truth is indeed stranger than fiction...

Checked the vacum advance on the R2 Lark tonight with a pump and the
vacum advance is shot.  After rebuilding the carb., I still had laging
like a flat spot when shifting the four speed.  The car lunges when I
accelerate.  I am thinking the vacum advance might take care of the

I am posting for a Life Member Studebaker guy in Georgia who is being
forced by the county to get these cars off his property.  He is not
computer literate, is 72, and not in good health.  I don't know much
about the cars except the Cruiser is a V8 (I guess they all were), and

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4556161185
Think I'll have to pass on this one, won't fit in the garage.  20 miles away
from me.
Lee