Happy 4th of July, freedom lovers! The Commander name was first used on a Studebaker way back in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was president and the FCC (originally the Federal Radio Commission) started to regulate the use of radio frequencies. Ahh..the early days of the FCC…good times…what could be more American than the ever tightening grip of […]
About a year ago, I posed the question of which Brooks Stevens designed wagonish vehicle would be best for your Daily Turismo – the Jeep Wagoneer with an AMC 390 V8, or the Studebaker Wagonaire with an ancient inline six. The slding-roof Stude has a certain presence all its own, but 112 hp is far […]
If you spend any time surfing eBay auctions, you’ll often find more valuable information in the Q/A session at the bottom than in the listing from the seller. Here is a car that has a sort of inquisition going on from Studebaker aficionados. He’s getting peppered with questions that he has no answers for but […]
Back before crossovers, SUVs, SAVs, CUVs, minvans, tall wagons, and 5-door hatchbacks, if you wanted a long roof people/stuff hauler you had one genre of vehicle to consider: the station wagon. There were two subsets; a wagon could be based on a car or on a truck chassis. What pundits would now call a “traditional […]