I don't know where you got that idea, but I did post a pic of it and our very own Hamb Santa last week.
I respect the work, but one can get any unmolested midcentury pickup to look like that with the aid of just a few capfuls of a popular nighttime cold medicine. j/k. Seriously, though, with no running boards and dual-walled boxes, that Studebaker R series design was innovative and too nifty to mess with. The problem is mine; I'm just infatuated with the design down to the horizontal seam on the outside of the box.
I could of bought Daves Studebaker from ???? Banes sp in the early 90's for $3500 I kick myself everythime I see it for not buying it. Of course I was 20 and had no money...
The FINNNS headlights are spares made for the Modern Grecian. If I remember right, I think his dad owned the Grecian at one time and got the headlight lenses with it.
Thanx Og for the explanation of Dave's Stude truck...and here's some pix of it...it was built in Greeley, ColoRODo by a body shop way back in... oh hell, here's part of the article I wrote...the truck has been featured in several mags...... This Studebaker truck has a long and varied pedigree ya see, it was originally built as a kustom way back in 1957, some minor body mods had been done to it and it sported a Buick motor w/6 deuces under the hood **** Fuqua (****s Body Shop) in Greeley, ColoRODo used the truck as a rolling adverti*****t for his shop and it was continuously updated over the next few years, until 1963, when **** modified it yet again into what you see here. Nineteen sixty-three was a time in most every car guy's life that included kustoms cuz there was no such thing as muscle cars yet. Kustom cars had a large following then, in the magazines, on the street and in the indoor shows and if you had a radical kustom, you were one up on everyone else cuz not every car guy could have something as radical as a chopped top, molded grille, rolled pans and outrageous fins. And what better way to show off your body shops capabilities build a show winner, build a silk purse out of a sows ear. <O (Once **** was done with ) this kustom, (it) sat in several back yards for almost ten years after its many show seasons, slowly being weathered by the intense ColoRODo sun, snow and rain it was rescued in 1980 by Ed Banes, of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:City>Denver, CO. Just so you don't think Dave doesn't know what he has, here's a couple of shots of his '51 Merc... and right now, he's in the process of building a chopped '40 Merc sled...should be a real head turner when it's done. R-
Hey Markgyver, Its funny you should bring that up because I came pretty close to owning this truck once myself. In early 1987 right after I got out of high school, I was interested in learning the auto upholstery trade. A good friend of mine's Dad was in good with alot of the street rod guys and he knew a few that owned upholstery shops. He talked to Ed Baines who co-owned Cruisin' Comfort Auto Upholstery and Ed kindly agreed to let me take an apprenticeship there. I was lucky enough to work there about 6 months before real life kicked in and I had to get a better job than my part time one and eventually I couldn't do the apprenticeship any longer. Anyway, while I worked there, I saw this very interesting truck tucked away in the corner of the shop. It was a work in progress, but it already had the real spacy look to it. It was all in primer. It did have the drivetrain done, but it had no gl***, paint or upholstery. Every day when my work was finished, I'd go over and stare at the truck. Well, it turned out to be this Studebaker. When we had some slow times or were all caught up, I'd help Ed do some things to it. I remember helping him with templates for the dash as well as installing the gas tank and the shifter. I really enjoyed helping out with it. Shortly after, I left the shop and not too long after that I remember seeing the truck all done in purple sitting at a cruise night. It blew my mind! Ed happened to be standing close by and I talked to him about how nice the truck turned out. He thanked me again for my help with the truck (even though I really did very little) and he told me to stop by the shop sometime for a cold one or two................... A few years later, I saw Ed again and he was in his new project that was a '53 or '54 Chevy sedan delivery. I asked him what happened to the truck and he said he gave it to his son, Troy. Funny how things work out. I went to school with Troy, but at the time, I never knew his Dad was Ed! Word got around that Troy was trying to get rid of the truck because he needed something a little bigger because his family couldn't all fit in the truck to go to runs and shows together. I talked to a few friends who said Troy would possibly be interested in a trade and through these guys, I eventually managed to get in touch with Troy. We set up a time to get together so he could look at my car and I could check out the truck. I went to Troy's house and we checked both vehicles out. He really liked my car, and of course I was crazy about the truck. One snag though: he couldn't do the deal without his wife liking the trade, but at the time she wasn't home to look at my car. He said to come back when she was home and if she liked it, the deal would be done. A few days later, I went back to Troy's when Mama was home and she said no dice. She just didn't like my car, so the deal died right there................... I guess it was probably the next summer I saw the truck at another show and Pareso had it. Turns out that Dave had another vehicle to trade that Troy and his wife liked and they traded the Stude for that. So close yet so far..........................Damn! E
Not too wild about the closed bed but the front is cool. Looks like it'll bite your leg off if you get too close.
i logged quite a few miles in that truck with troy, and if i remember right troy got a s-10 in trade for that stude.
I think this might make you a stalker? Admitting is truely the first step. Just kiddin man! I've seen that truck several times too under similar cir***stances.
Every single one of these is way better than the finns version. The best, however, is the Merc clip Stude truck. My $.02 of course.
All good lookin trucks, from mild to wild..the thread is not complete without a pic of Jeff Myers Stude pickup..anybody got one? Jeff?
Sledubaker built by Paul Cepeda who brought you the killer desoto and the radical chop 32 and most recent at the GNRS the plymouth coupe.... this guy has amazing talent
hell, ANY number of people in that truck is cramped! no room to stretch the legs out. good truck for the short fellers(like dave).
here is my 47 m5 pickup my buddy built and i finished it up and cleaned it up a bit! whatcha think prob not very traditional but a cool rod none the less
how in the hell could someone not like this truck? look in the old mags. this truck looks traditional ! damn!!
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