Baby's Got a New Pair of Shoes...

...No, unfortunately THIS is not our baby, but it is his distant cousin the Golden Hawk. This beautiful car and many others of the same caliber belongs to Stan, the gentleman who sold us a new set of white walls for the truck. We don't know what was cooler, the fact that the tires were still in their original packaging and are absolutely flawless (Stan was the original purchaser many years ago and took great care of them), or the mini car show we got to experience when we went to pick them up. Stan has a vast knowlege of cars, Studebakers included. We really appreciated his willingness to share his knowlege of classic cars. This seems to be a common thread we've enjoyed among fellow Studebaker/classic car owners.

John was eager to see what the new tires would look like, so he leaned them up against the current ones (please excuse the garage/gym, but it was raining way too hard to take the truck out today). The truck itself is experiencing quite the culture shock, as it's probably the first time in eons that it has actually been OUT of the rain! We know that Mike's true loves are his Corvette and his '55 GMC truck, so poor Stutius got put out to pasture... The rims shown in this photo are actually going to be put on GD's truck (he thinks they're "babe magnets"). As John says, anything to help the cause...
Before the white walls can be truly added, the original rims need to be cleaned up a tad. They are definitely NOT babe magnets at this time (spider magnets is more like it).


Hmm...how long do you think it took John to get started on that project? One down, three to go!


One last look at the beautiful white walls. We're so excited to have found these. Thanks again, Stan, for your quality tires and expertise!