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Studebaker truck history is an interesting thing to follow. Thanks for posting this prototype that in a sense would have been ahead of its time. I say in a sense because much of it it under its unique skin was 50 years old. I say this lovingly as I have a '61 Champ pickup. Mine is not completely stock as I have an R1 289 V8 engine (base Avanti engine, not supercharger) that motivates the old truck down the road nicely.
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Here, I'll do it...
:Photo link/credit above, where the writer doesn't think Studebaker focused on trucks much. Those kids...(sigh). Doesn't quite look like Loewy material, huh. They must have thought they should be competing w/ all the forward-controls on the market at the time.,,they'd have been the only one with a V8 I believe. Kick ass on all the Jeep flatheads, Corvairs and Econolines at the stoplights!Last edited by Loren; December 10, 2017, 06:46 PM....
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reading history, they began with wagons for farmers.
1963 is only 110 years form their origin.
A lot could not wake up to evolve.
sears ran a two cyl boxer out hauling most everything..
just bizarre.
I think long running institutions gather the illusionary instead of the worker...and it takes wounds for carrying that.Previously boxer3main
the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.
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Originally posted by Dan Barlow View PostSometimes its more costly to design something ugly then cute .
...when you got a fast car, you think you've got everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpvfmSL6WkM
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Especially if it doesn't sell!
Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince
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I can see it working as a fleet vehicle, something to compete with the likes of the flat-faced vans and the DJ Jeeps. But after looking at Champs and Transtars, it's very difficult to see that selling anywhere else.Editor-at-Large at...well, here, of course!
"Remy-Z, you've outdone yourself again, I thought a Mirada was the icing on the cake of rodding, but this Imperial is the spread of little 99-cent candy letters spelling out "EAT ME" on top of that cake."
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