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Only if you introduced yourself as Clyde Barrow and told him you were about to rob a bank! Craig

The brand I remember well. http://www.hehrintl.com/ Craig

I posted photos of Roamer cars that are currently in the Gilmore Museum here: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/stove-huggers-the-non-studebaker-forum/53028-orphan-of-the-day-06-04-1920-roamer-touring?51752-Orphan-of-the-Day-06-04-1920-Roamer-Touring= https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/stove-huggers-the-non-studebaker-forum/54004-orphan-of-the-day-07-10-1921-roamer-town-car-landaulet https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/stove-huggers-the-non-studebaker-forum/56354-orphan-of-the-day-09-29-1920-roamer-roadster Craig

Not just school-age groups are using Zoom. Many businesses, including ours are now forced to use it for video conferencing as much staff is working from their homes. I'm not a huge fan of it when there are more than 10-12 individuals involved. Craig

It appears to be a camper conversion. Craig

When the serial number plate, body data plate, and arguably, the original engine with the number stamped in the block doesn't survive intact. Craig

There is a write-up on this rebuild in the current (May, 2020) Thoroughbred & Classic Cars magazine. Craig

Few may remember what a huge colossus General Motors was at one time. They were big enough to support themselves and would have been able to meet emission laws on a division by division basis. What GM failed to do was change their strategy where they thought the full-size B & C body cars were going to be best sellers forever, and the market for lazy, slow-revving V8 interstate cruisers would never die. What they failed to notice was the growing compact and sub-compact markets with cars that could handle well on curves and V8 performance from a 4-cylinder or a small displacement 6 which GM only took half seriously, where the imports from Germany and Japan did. If General Motors put as much effort and full-time resources into developing the pre-1980 rwd X-body 'AVON' cars both in engineering and design individuality among each division, and made them the 'Bread & Butter' mainstays, instead of the B & C cars maybe ten years earlier, they would have been better prepared to take the challenging 1980's decade head on. Throughout the later seventies and early eighties, the lower level A, X, T, and later, J-body cars were low-profit, thorn-in-their-side products in GM's corporate empire and the lack of emphasis on engineering and build quality really showed, especially when compared to the German and Japanese competition. Hard to believe, but GM really did expect the J-body Cadillac to be a serious BMW contender. Craig

Umm..I think its a sidewalk, not a driveway....unless its for a pedal car!! Craig

Those plates turned out real nice! And they appear to be 'Exempt' plates for doctors, etc., who can park in loading zones or exempt from having to pay for parking in city-owned lots. I was fortunate enough to locate a pair of these Public Service plates, as what would be seen on a Bell Telephones truck in the day. Craig

I believe that one a 'Exempt'' plate for doctors, etc., which allows them to park in certain areas, including loading zones, or city parking lots without having to pay the usual fee. Below is a 1928 'Commercial' plate.

Is that RR a 1950? Craig

There are TONS of photos of the 1963 grand opening of the Linwood factory: https://www.imps4ever.info/linwood/opening_linwood/the-duke-n-the-imp.html It was probably THE most publicized car factory opening in UK history! Craig

I often wonder if car makers themselves should be getting the credit, when in a lot of cases, its a product vendor who invents the idea or concept, and then sells it to a manufacturer. An example is Perfect Circle inventing cruise control, or Speed-o-stat, as they called it. Chrysler was the first buyer and made it an option on their 1957 or 1958 line. Evans Products, Bendix, Dana-Spicer, Bosch, Gemmer, and Fairbanks-Morse are vendor companies who invented, or (co-invented) several mechanical and accessory items including braking developments, vacuum-assisted shifting in the 1930's, power steering, limited-slip differential, etc. Perhaps they should be given the credit in addition to the automaker that first incorporated it into their line of cars and trucks. Craig

I believe Argyll and Arrol Johnson are two of the better known Scottish brands. Craig

There are twin brothers here who both own Continentals, a Mark II, and a Mark III. I would be seeing them with their cars on a regular basis now, but with all the car shows on hold, I have not seen them out this year. Or course, I have not been out, either. The one has a spreadsheet for all the 1956-7 Continentals in a binder, showing their destinations. I will run that serial number by him when I see him next, and what his book states. Craig

Commercial YOM plates are more difficult to find than regular passenger car plates. Craig

Definitely not. I have seen a Chaika up close, and the only thing I saw that appeared to be a direct copy were the power window switches. The most obvious difference is the greenhouse. The Chaika was a long wheelbase 8-passenger sedan which was not a combination of a four door sedan coupled with the rear half of a two door sedan as Packard's limousine/8 passenger sedan was. The Chaika was designed to be an 8 passenger car from its inception. The Chaika has thicker frames around the windows on the doors, and the A-pillar was not as vertical as it was with Packard. One can bet if there really was a sale of anything to the Soviet car industry by Studebaker-Packard at the time, it would be in the still-extant board meeting minutes. Craig

Jake, We know and like how much you have appreciation for prewar Studebakers: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/general-studebaker-specific-discussion/108021-get-your-pre-war-funk-on Nothing wrong with your GT Hawk at all of course, and I admire yours posts of postwar cars, but it is true the Studebaker forum here is more oriented toward prewar cars & trucks as it has the backing of the Antique Studebaker Club. But keep up the good work at finding prewar Studebaker cars and trucks to take pictures of (projects, barn finds, restored units, et al) and post them here! You do have a good eye for detail. Craig

GM's lame advertising in later years didn't help sell the product, either: https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/stove-huggers-the-non-studebaker-forum/69872-where-is-dinah-shore-when-we-need-her Craig

In Canada, the Russell Motor Car Company had the exclusive rights to the Knight sleeve-valve engine; manufacturing it under licence, installing it in their own cars under the Russell-Knight badge. This prevented John North Willys from marketing his sleeve-valve engine car in Canada, and in 1916, became a major share holder in Russell Motor Car Company, effectively taking over, and renaming it Willys-Overland Cars of Canada Ltd. I wonder what would have happened if Packard won the case. Would Russell Motor Car Company still have exclusive rights to the Knight engine in Canada? Craig

The first Amphicar? Craig

It is an unfair comparison of 1946 UK vehicles vs. US sales. In the United States, production was allowed to ramp up, unhindered, aside from supplier strikes, etc., with sales to anyone who had money to buy one. In the UK, car sales were restricted. The UK had an enormous war debt to pay off and industries at that time were forced to export their goods, while the civilian population for the most part had to 'make do' with what they had, including prewar cars. Unless one was a doctor, or had a trade which needed a brand new vehicle, it was 'EXPORT OR DIE!' http://bestride.com/news/entertainment/export-or-die-5-british-cars-american-gis-bought-in-america-after-wwii Craig

Absolutely, they were like separate, independent rivalries, and at new-car introduction time, it was not complete unless you visited the dealerships and look at the cars from ALL five divisions back in the 1960's, especially under the hoods. Working at a gas station, one got to know the different 350 engines rather quickly, such as Oldsmobile's oil fill not on the valve cover, and Buick's cross-hatches on the dipstick where the oil level was supposed to be. As I recall, Bosch in Germany took some of Bendix's ideas and utilized them in their first-generation D-Jetronic fuel injection, and make it work reliably More here: https://www.bosch.com/stories/50-years-of-bosch-gasoline-injection-jetronic/ Problem with GM was they were too proud of themselves and being true red, white & blue American, wanted to develop everything on their own, without any intervention from a competitive vendor, especially an overseas one, (back when they owned Delco, AC, Frigidaire, et. al.), even though the product may have been better designed. Reportedly, Holley developed a carburetor for the Vega, and not wanting to be outdone, AC hastily developed one, and ruining any future ties for both companies. As everyone knows, GM got humbled severely in the 1970's and 1980's. One of my favorite magazine covers was "Number 2 is Teaching Number 1 How to Build Cars" when the NUMMI plant opened. Craig

Never in my lifetime, and most likely yours!! Craig