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Re: Studebaker

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Subject: Re: Studebaker
From: John Szalay <john.szalay@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:44:17 -0500
At 08:16 AM 11/15/02 -0800, W S Potter wrote:
>My car was a 1953 Studebaker Commander coupe.  232 cubic inch V-8 that put out 
>a whopping 120 hp.  When I put a Chev engine in it in 1960 we had to lower the 
>front end because the Chev was much lighter.
>
>Wes


close, I had the 53 6 banger, pulled it, and dropped a 283 chevy with
3 dueces, put a posi rear end from a Ford into it,
changed the rounded off trunk lid with squared off one from a 56 Hawk
thought it matched the tailfins/brakelights better,   otherwise
had a plain-jane looking street car.  faked all the chevy guys out...
left with my cousin when I went to the army in 1964, never did find out
what happened to it.. 
a well made car, very pretty, at a time when everything else looked
weird..

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