To: E. Charters who wrote (4491 ) 4/16/2003 2:46:30 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to Studebaker was the last decent car made on this continent .... what was that, 1964 or something they shut down .... there was an old faller on this coast, and when i say faller i mean faller, his most formal wear was a relatively recently laundered and hole-free stanfields, he had at any given time from the fifties through the seventies maybe eight to fourteen models of Studebaker in his yard .... just liked to tinker with them, buy and sell them, never made much on them overall, all his friends and neighbours drove them, when you had a problem you just drove it or towed it back to his yard and he would wave in the direction of another, take that one .... in fact at the entry to the shop there was a board where he hung the keys, in case he wasn't there when you came , that was the deal, he kept you going no matter what .... he had one of a model called Avanti, only one he wouldn't sell or loan, a friend of his son smacked into it one day, only time i ever saw that man angry ... he just passed away last fall, so we've been swapping stories on him, there are plenty enough for a book ... one of his neighbours had the first Volkswagen in town, and they were good friends, always fought about that though, and Studebaker Man sold the wife of Bug Man a car, that was something of great amusement to all
