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Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:50 pm
by denis23
Fabulous truck, and still legend on the 1/6 of the world, known as former Soviet Union.
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:50 am
by motto
Hi Ken,
It's surprising and a bit disappointing to find out what a 6x6, 2-1/2 tonner will not do. I once had a US6 bogged over a hundred miles from home due to over confidence. We were driving through a flooded area and bogged down about a mile from as close as you could get with a car. A tractor that was brought in to rescue us also bogged down. Six days later we returned with another US6 that I purchased for the occasion. This one had an original winch on the front and a similar one on the rear for logging. We needed both winches to get the three vehicles out of there and spent all day doing it finally getting out of the forest and back on dry land just on dark. This was with dual wheels on the front and chains on front and intermediate axles.
Lesson learned.
David
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:01 pm
by lowrdrbird
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:03 pm
by lowrdrbird
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:06 pm
by lowrdrbird
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 1:05 am
by Lang
Ken
You have done a wonderful job on the Studebaker. Any finished photos?
It is a bit like the Ford/GM/Dodge argument but I reckon the GMC is a much nicer truck to drive (I have owned both types). What you have that the GMC blokes do not is the best looking cargo truck built during WW2 and a relatively rare vehicle that contributed hugely to the WW2 victory - ALCAN Highway, Burma Road, Russian Front - and nobody knows!
Excellent save - well done.
Lang
Re: Friend got a Studebaker
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:21 pm
by Gordon_M
I'm not down on Studebakers - I've had about half a dozen Weasels - but I've been told time and again that the reason the GMC made 'Standard' and the Studebaker 'Limited Standard' was the additional grunt of the GMC 270 OHV engine, and having run both GMC and Studebaker sixes I know which one I'd want to be using if I was in a hole.
I prefer the look of the Studebaker cab, but then I'm a fan of the metal cargo bed too. There's enough iron out there needing cared for to keep us all busy.