Studebaker Dude

Rest in Peace Paul Reubens. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent and making this world just a little bit more tolerable.

I started my working years in the 60s and 70s. $3 an hour was a respectable wage back then. You could buy a decent used car for a couple hundred bucks and rent an apartment for $100 a month. It was in the 70s when everything went crazy.

I was born in 1951. Take a look at my yellow Studebaker, it is 41 days older than me and was a futuristic-looking car for its day. Life was different back then and I am so glad I got to experience it.

Stalnaker explains his new column since the merger the Sapulpa Times and the Sapulpa Herald, called "Been There, Done That"

By:  Jon StalnakerAKA The Studebaker Dude I am feeling a little existential this week so I thought I would talk about something other than cars this time.  I turned 70 last year and it’s the first milestone birthday that bothered me.  Maybe bothered is too strong, let me just say that it is the first…

I am very much a car guy and Studebakers are my thing, but I like other cars too and my dream would be to have one of those huge industrial buildings full of cars.

While my car looks like an original Bullet Nose Studebaker to most people, it wouldn’t fool a single Studebaker aficionado.

Have you seen the old movie, Tucker, about the car and the man that threatened the automobile industry’s Big 3 in 1948? Studebaker played an interesting role in that movie.

So now I find myself with two Studebakers, a car and a truck. Both are potentially very nice classic vehicles. But the question remained: should it be a complete restoration back to its original condition or should I modify it with modern running gear?

By: Jon Stalnaker AKA The Studebaker DudeWith retirement looming on the horizon, I started thinking about what I could do to keep busy. I knew I wanted to get more involved in the car guy world and I heard about this 18-week class at the Towe Auto Museum in Sacramento (later the California Automobile Museum).…