3rd eye Studebaker?

I see what looks like a late 1940's S'baker with 3 headlights in a boneyard.
Has a center headlight. Was there such a beast?

 

You're kidding right??? You mean a Tucker.... in a bone yard???? Where?????

 

has to be joking. arent all of those cars accounted for?

 

Yes, but that center deal isn't actually a headlight.

 

Sorry, jumped the gun... which of these does it look like???

 

One on the right.

 

There's no way there's a Tucker just sitting at a junk yard.

 

Your right, my right, the computers right? If it's a Tucker, which I doubt, you better go get it right NOW!!!

 

I don't believe it is a Tucker because it's a 4 dr?

 

Please elaborate

 

It's like the little grill deal on a 49-50 ford.

 

What I saw was 3 headlights not a grill. The car was a suicide 4 dr.

 

Just tell me where it is and forget you ever saw such a thing.

 

Interesting. I wonder if this is an old kustom you've found where someone popped a headlight into the bullet.

 

Go see it again and take pictures. Otherwise I call ********.

but keep in mind guys, there were 48 complete tuckers...how many parts did they have left over? Who knows?

 

Not a custom. Car appears to be original.

 

Dude, if by some act of God you have found a Tucker at the junk yard, you'd better go get the damned thing NOW if not sooner. You could probably get 6 figures for a junk one.

 

I'm not claiming this is a Tucker. Just what is it?

 

yeah for sure they totaly made 4 door tuckers didnt they?

 

if you look carefully, the one in the picture above is a 4 door with suicide rears... There was also a company in the 70's that made a bunch of reproduction tuckers, then there were several copies made for the movie..... Your biggest clue as to tuckerdom would be to see where the motor is.... If you open the hood, and there is a suitcase, then you might have a tucker... Their motors are in the back.... Here is a reproduction made in 1998 or so....

 

I'm not that familiar with whether they were 2 dr or 4 dr. Now that i look at
Skipstich pics it's a 4 dr. Sorry, didn't know that.

 

Wasn't there some sort of aftermarket kit to put a 3rd headlight on the Studebakers?

 

In the 50s a company came out with a kit that replaced the center "bullet" in those Studes with a headlight. It even had linkage (like the Tucker) that tied it in to the front end, so that the light would turn as you turned the car. I saw an article about the kit in the US Stude Club magazine (Turning Wheels) a few years ago. They did not sell well, and are now rare, but most Stude club guys would have little interest, as it is are not stock.

There was also a company that sold a chrome plated propellor that spun as you drove. You had to drill a hole in the middle of that center bullet, to mount it.

 

In fact, I actually saw one of the "fake" Tuckers that was made for the movie at Carlisle years ago. Remember when they roll one on purpose at the test track to see if the windshield will pop out like it was supposed to? That's the one I saw, and it was a '50 Studebaker with a Tucker "skin" over it.

 

Here is a Studebaker Starlight Coupe with a headlight in place of the bullet......





and here is a 4 door Studebaker which has sucide doors on the back.....

 

Yeah the mail order parts store Warshawsky used to carry the center headlight kit for Studebackers as well as the fog light kits for 49 50 Fords that fitted in the center bullet.
Also all tuckers were four doors.

 

If the car in question is in an Albany-area yard, I can get pics early this week to help clear it up....where is it, 41fastback?

 

The propeller was originally produced to mount on the front of little Crosley's that had a small bullet under the hood. Bulletnose Studes were a natural progression, of course. I have even seen them mounted on '49 - '51 Ford shoeboxes.
They sell on evilBay every now and then.

 

haha of course ya want to know were its at lol

 

Installing a foglight or headlight in lieu of the "spinner" in those early Studes was quite commonplace back "in the day". I saw so many like that as a kid (with the amber foglight), I thought it was a factory option.

"well, DO ya?....PUNK!!!!"

dj