off brand (OT)

[Plymouthy Adams]

trivial

[Guest mudflap22]

Pretty decent ol' Studie. Gonna make a great car. Is this an old picture? If not , I wish it was that green still here! Winter sucks.

[BobT-47P15]

Cool....Tim. Now you can make it look like this:

Or maybe this:

Or a nice stocker:

Well, anyway, another fun project for you.

[Guest Nelsons Ply]

I like the looks of the Studebakers.But the bad one I had when I was young.

Would shake the wheels of at 30 miles an hour get past that and it ran great.

Took it back to the dealer 5 or 6 times Before they fixed it.

So when you get going Tim drive and check out the front

end.

If it has the problem from reading your past I know you will find it.

Good luck with the Studie.

[greg g]

Probably not as off brand as you think. I believe Chrysler and Studebaker may have had some engineering genes out of the same pool. And it seems they sourced thier subasemblies from the same suppliers. Good luck with it.

[De Soto Frank]

Welllll...

WAY back, in the Teens, both Carl Breer and Fred Zeder ( 2/3 of the "Three Musketeers") worked in Stude's engineering dept (having moved there from Chalmers) and made a lot of improvements in the existing models...

I don't know how much the two makes actually "shared"(?); Stude's front suspensions were pretty unique from the late '30s on... I believe they used Bendix brakes, albeit a different arrangement than found on GM's of the period...

Stude DID have a short-lived "fluid-drive" semi-auto option around '42: they called it "Turbo-Drive"... it was very similar to Chrysler's "Simplimatic" semi-auto...

I've always liked the bullet-nose models, and am still hoping to land the '41 President that surfaced locally this summer...

Tim, does that V-winged thing on the hood ornament mean there's a V-8 under the bonnet ?

Did you drive it home ?

[Don Coatney]

Tim;

Nice score! Is this a wives car? And if so which one gets the glory? Thought you just bought a Plymouth for one of your wives. Need some splainin here...

[greg g]

Suspension is a little different......looks like transverse leaf spring lower "A" arm

Upper "I" arm, and frame mounted hydraulic shocks. Pic from the National Studebaker Museum in S Bend, In.

[De Soto Frank]

That tubular upper control arm is pretty unique...

Tim ,Congrats on getting the "big Stude"... I mostly see Champions, which were good little cars, but pretty anemic ( 169 cid engine).

The 246 & OD ought to make for a good driver.

Congrats too on finding little rust - that's VERY unusual with Studes here in the Northeast,,,

Frank McMullen

[Rodney Bullock]

Tim look at you, the tim man, tim tim. That car is great, glad you got it. The guy I went to see had four bullitnose and about ten larks. I love the 1951 bullitnose because of the v8. I loved the hawk a little more as it is 12volt and a v8 I have had it with the problems of the 6volt cars I have, you have to pamper them like 2year olds. I like keeping them stock so I deal with it. The hawk however will give me driving enjoyment and I can blow pass my street rod friends without going against my principles. Good luck Tim, I think all of us on the forum should understand that though studebaker is not a mopar it is an orphan and we should adopt an orphan when ever possible;)

[Young Ed]

Tim Come visit me if you want to buy one of those wagons. I know where one is.

[Chester Brzostowski]

Nice Car Tim,

Should be fun getting her back on the road.

Good luck, Chet...