Actually mostly these were trucks delivered without beds, cab and chassis, and equipped with wrecker beds just like any other make. What's crazy is the passenger car front sheet metal ones made in the late 50s.
Back in the '60s, the Chrysler-Plymouth dealership on Second Avenue in Rome GA had a Studebaker wrecker.
Studebaker built a great many large trucks. They are all over the world, especially in Australia and China. In fact, Studebaker was just as instrumental in moving troops in WWII as Dodge, Ford or GM.
Anything Studebaker is relatively rare compared to the big 3. But, yes Studebaker still built a lot of trucks including heavy ones up to 2 tons and a lot of military trucks as well all the way up to the end in 1964. Farmers loved Studebaker trucks and they are all over hidden here and there. Not that hard to find if you are looking and keep a sharp eye out. It is rare to find a pretty nice looking survivor like that one though. Looks to me like it is a 1-ton pickup, M15 model, which had the wrecker unit installed in the bed but with the rear part of the bed cut off too. Pretty cool looking truck and in decent shape too. You buying it?
Not buying it, just trying to gain knowledge. It is for sale locally though. Thanks for all the info guys. This board amazes me.
Hell I know where there's a Studebaker school bus. Around a '55. Unusual, yes, a big Stude truck rare? not just yet.
During WW11 we shipped a lot of studebaker trucks to Russia and one of the few english words their troops knew was Studebaker and called most trucks that. A knockoff of that cab was built into the '70's for their military trucks.
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