KURTRUK

It doesn't look long enough for a full-size casket. But what do I know---I've never been in one...😆

Original NAGS # D4626, replaced by D4941. That's assuming it's a front passenger door glass (RF) you're looking for, not a right rear passenger, since you didn't specify. Yes, they fit equivalent models from 71-76, Impala/Caprice, Delta 88, 71-74 Catalina. Here's one on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275451996993

Studebaker International has them for $18.00 part #195919

59-60 Studebaker Lark, except the curved end need to come to a point. Same for 62-63 Lark.

In American Graffiti, Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) drove one. The actual car was a '67 model, but the movie was set in 1962. Oops!

Notice the clip, just above the clutch pedal arm? In the simulator I "learned" on in about 1980, they were "automatics." Then, at the end of the course, they said if we wanted to try a manual transmission, reach up under the dash an pull down the clutch pedal. This also unlocked the console shift stalk, from straight forward/back shifting to a gated manual shifter. Cool. I had already been driving a manual (only) car for two years. I'll show my classmates how good I am. Every time I accelerated and let out the clutch, the simulator said I blew the engine, and red lights came on! HA! Anyway, that's why you see a clutch with an automatic column shifter. Although on this one pictured, does it change it to a three-on-the-tree? 🤪

If you need something larger, Studebaker (and others) used a large wingnut to hold down the jack in the trunk. Also, a large wingnut is used to hold the spare tire under a pickup.

The Studebaker is a pillared coupe (C-body). Here's a (54) 2 door sedan: Viva la difference. One's attractive, the other, not so much.

The IHC is an R-series which ran from 53-55. 56 was an S-series with different front end. No mention of the amazing Studebaker? 1953 K-body Champion Starliner hardtop convertible coupe. (Good thing it wasn't the C-body Starlight pillared coupe. Try to explain that one! 😆)

I would like to see the reaction when you tell your fiance' you're going to watch a movie called The Boob. 😉

Dodge truck 72-93. The attachments on the bottom may not be the same for all years.

There is only one known to exist!

This is a question for anybody: When did Chrysler start using the Pentastar logo(so I know what era to search)? EDIT: OK, I googled it. Pentastar started in 1962. I'll search from there. BTW: Is this a matched pair, IE: Left and Right?

Is the glass flat, or curved?

MOLYBDENUM 8?

I think the Studebaker engine is a Hercules JXD used in the WWII US6 2 1/2 ton trucks.

Same people in both poses.

I owned an X1/9. While it was fun when it ran (Fix It Again, Tony), the packaging was impeccable. I'm 6'2" and it was a comfortable fit. What is now called a frunk, the front trunk held four bags of groceries, and if you stored the targa top there, you didn't lose more than 2 inches of storage space. Plus, there was a rear trunk as well. Not nearly the size of the front, but still another storage space, all in this tiny car, 46 1/2" tall.

...and I wouldn't trust a "Journalist" who can't correctly spell "hearse."

Studebaker also used a beehive lens, but I don't recognize this as Studebaker.

Is it this one? https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9455813,-119.9554503,3a,49.3y,241.19h,84.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSLjRUM3H4Rac2FJ6JMBTsg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu

When I was a wee kid, about 3 or 4 years old, an older couple at our church in Modesto, California, name Harold and Alice Coverley would kiddingly call me Truk (my name spelled backwards). Fast forward 15 years. Bought my first (project) vehicle, a 1955 Dodge pickup, model C3-B8-108. California had personalized license plates available for an annual fee. I think my last name was already taken, so I had to come up with something else. Harkening back to childhood, I remembered the Coverleys calling me Truk. Perfect. Kurtruk is a Palindrome. It is a word that reads the same forwards and backwards. This plate was available. So I have an original Yellow on Blue California license plate with that on it. Had it on my Dodge truck for the short time it was driveable. The bad news is, if you don't renew it every year, when you do want to make it current again, all the back fees are due! That's 40 years. SO I'd like to put it on my 1955 Studebaker E12 pickup I own now but the fees would cost more than the truck is worth, probably. Thanks California. So it hangs on the back of a door somewhere, not exactly sure where right now. In the 1980s when I had my Dodge, one popular thing to do was have a smooth tailgate and put a mural or the name of your vehicle on it. Always wanted to come up with a stylized logo with KURTRUK on it, with the first KUR reversed, so it was still readable, but a mirror image of the last part of the name. Side Note: The Coverleys owned Burges Drive-In in Modesto when one George Lucas was cruisin' around in his formative years. Mel's Drive-in in American Graffiti substituted for Burges since Burges no longer existed when filming the movie. Mel's scenes were shot in San Francisco, I believe.

Friends that receive our Christmas letter tell me I'm a great writer. OK. But I cannot construct an essay such as this! 👍👍

Just picked up the famous Wig Wag at the Turlock Swap Meet last week.