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01-16-2013, 11:02 PM | #1 |
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We all could use a little chuckle!
Pulled up behind this van today at a stoplight and fortunately I had my iPhone camera with me.
Enjoy! Fred I just googled the bumper sticker and they are available from the Studebaker National Museum for $2.50 each here: https://studebakermuseum.org/store/for-the-car/bail-out-studebaker-bumper-sticker_00411/
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01-16-2013, 11:35 PM | #2 |
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Re: We all could use a little chuckle!
I don't get it?
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01-16-2013, 11:44 PM | #3 |
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I like it!!
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01-17-2013, 06:17 AM | #4 |
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Re: We all could use a little chuckle!
Maybe Studebaker's "BUCKET" has a "HOLE IN IT"?? Bill W.
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01-17-2013, 07:21 AM | #5 |
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As I remember it, studebaker merged with hudson and nash to make american motors, which was absorbed by chrysler, so in sense, they did get bailed out.
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Hudson and Nash formed Hash, Packard and Studebaker put out some horribly styled messes in the late 50's before Packard died and Studebaker limped into the 60's already dead but at least gave us the Avanti
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01-17-2013, 08:59 AM | #9 |
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Great bumpersticker! It makes the point very well. They went out of business due to their poor business decisions. End of story. GM was propped up with taxpayer money when they should have been allowed to go through an organized backruptcy. Actually they did go through bankrupcy, just with gov'ts hand on the scale and a whole bunch of our money thrown into the pot. I'll never buy another GM car in my lifetime.
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01-17-2013, 09:38 AM | #10 |
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the Avanti is my least favorite Studebaker. I'd rather have a 1950 bullet-nose or a Champ pickup.
Studebaker was a textbook case proving that bad management always trumps great cars.......
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that organized bankruptcy would have allowed GM to re-negotiate their onerous union contracts. politicians are beholden to the unions and did not want to allow that.......
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01-17-2013, 10:21 AM | #13 |
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Chris has a point. A real bankruptcy would have allowed GM to really reorganize and maybe become a leaner company and more viable. I believe the unions now own a lot of the company after the bailout. I suspect GM will be in trouble in the future again and I agree GM will probably never pay back all the money the taxpayers "loaned" them. Just my opinion. Funny, this thread started with a bumper sticker!
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Maybe Studebaker should have went back to making wheelbarrows. But I did like the style of they cars in the 50's.
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01-17-2013, 02:21 PM | #15 |
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Gotta remember that Ford didn't take the money,,,,,,,,,,,and they seem to be doing fine. I think i even read where they are going to reproduce the Model a and possibly the Edsel. Go fiqure.
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Mother-in law loved her Lark !
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01-17-2013, 02:52 PM | #17 |
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Some "Monday Morning" auto historians believe that if Packard had joined Hudson and Nash in the AMC merger, all market shares from entry-level to top luxury would have been covered with established, quality brands, and the resultant company might have made it into the 21st Century.
Unfortunately, Studebaker was a financial mess since the late 1920's, and was poison to anyone who partnered with them... Stude bought Pierce-Arrow around 1932, sold them fairly quickly. I like a lot of Stude's designs, but by the 1950's, they were so starved for capital that they were hamstrung for any additional technological development. The Stude V-8 of 1951 was their last big engineering feat... Too bad they couldn't conquer the tin-worm... I love the '51 bullet-nose and '59-'61 Larks, and have recently acquired a '50 Stude 3/4-ton pick-up to use for my "very-day" work truck. SC Frank |
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It was a company with a grand heritage.
One of my ancestors, Samuel McMullen, served with John Clement Studebaker as one of the first group of county commissioners (total of 3 ) of the newly-created Cambria County, in SW Pennsylvania, around 1805. Then JC went West, and made his fortune supplying prospectors with equipment, including his famous wheel-barrows. SC Frank |
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I suspect Larry Brumfield would disagree with your statement :-)
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