Well, thought I would post a few pictures of the project I found. I am already in the middle of a mild custom restoration of a Studebaker Hawk (here her run here http://youtube.com/watch?v=67p-kmCr2zU). The wife always wanted a bullet nose starlight coupe and one presented itself finally after 18 years. Picked it up for $300.00, also came with most of the parts off another car including a rolling chassis! ghcoe
I might have some rough fenders when I am done. May have to graft two together to make one good one so I will let you know if you are interested in some fenders that will need some help. ghcoe
I'm interested. I'll be cutting them in half and using the headlight portion on my Hudson...I need them fairly quickly though. What's your time frame like?
Probably going to be out a bit. This project is going to be slow process with my Hawk project being the priority right now. I do not know exactly which parts I will be using right now with the parts car being 60 miles away at a friends farm, it is hard for me to get to it. The fenders would not have the headlight buckets or the rings. One was busted and one was missing. I will try to get out there sometime in the next couple of weeks and maybe I will know more then and I drop you a line. ghcoe
Spent two weekends scraping the floor and found the floor pretty sound. Not bad for a farm yard car! Before:
This is the amount of rust I found. Most of the rust was limited to the door sills. Passenger: Driver: Trunk and spare wheel well are in great shape. ghcoe
My old man had one of these cars when I was a kid and man I hated it. The uglyest car in the world I thought. Now I think they are fukkkin awesome cars. Great find you gotta love it. John
I am building this car for the wife (hince the name Pin up Girl). Going to be painted pink with pink and white interior. The car is a Studebaker Commander and already has a Studebaker 232cid (that's a V8 for you non Stude people) with a DG 200 automatic transmission behind it. Running a 3.54 Dana 44 open rearend (stock) with a Stromburg 2 bbl. I will be building this as a era mild custom street rod. Wide white wall tires, Lower king pin for rake. Studebaker R2+ cam with R3 valve springs. Y adapter for a duce setup. Dual exhaust, port and polish heads . ghcoe
That's a lucky thing finding one with all good glass (or at lease good windshield and back windows). If anything sits for longer than a few years around here the windows all get shot out. Friggin rednecks.
Spent last weekend removing the dash. Just 11 bolts and a pair of dikes. The wires were in pretty bad shape so I did not feel bad about clipping. When I go to put it back together I will be installing a fuse block. Also removed the door panels and cleaned out the doors. Must have been 6 inches of crud in there. Ever have to clean out the crap out of these holes ghcoe.
that is a solid car, good find. I just put the glass in a 47 business coupe. it was pretty rough. the guy put it on a S-10 chassis and built it gasser style
Nice buisness Coupe. Going to keep it a gasser or convert it to a driver? Check out this site it may give you some ideas. It is a restoration of a '51 buisness coupe. Nice car! http://www.geocities.com/dcat917/index.htm ghcoe.
Just saw 1 of those done real good last week,it had frenched head lights and tail light,antenna,shaved handles,it was kinda pruple with some flames on it,white interior,lower,etc,all the cool things a mild custom should have,it was the first one I had seen in person.
That is a pretty solid car. Mine was too. I will give you a heads up here. A Nisson Altima rear seat fits very nicely in one of these. Don
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