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STUDEBAKER or INTER-STATE? and What Year FACTORY SHOT


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Interesting. I am very well acquainted with a 17 which does not have a crossbar. :confused:

Terry

I know that Google is really no authority a lot of times, but there seems to be quite a few identified as 1917 or 1918 with the crossbar.

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1917 is about right. In 1914-15 they still had the gas filler on the top of the cowl, off centre to the right. The tie bar was there on most models. There seem to be a some produced in 1916-17 which have the headlights on towers and no tie bar. From 1918 the tie bar was above the lights. Studebaker made many changes of specification during each season and I guess there is no definitive specification for a particular model year.

The cars in the mystery pic look to be four cylinder models.

This car might be a '17 but it has headlights from a later Big Six - https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7045/6901388411_19cd17bd24.jpg

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Woodfiddler made a good point re the number of rim bolts. Some info here - http://www.studebaker-info.org/TW/tw0607/tw0607p06.html - suggests that the Series 17 models that started in early 1917 had seven bolt wheels where the earlier models had six. That pretty much nails it. For simplicity date the photo at 1916.

Knowing how flexible chassis of this era are I would not be surprised if they found, on the models without the tie bar, the lights moved too much and the bar was quickly reintroduced.

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