New Karel Staple Chapter Website

The Karel Staple Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club has a new website. Check out the newsletter and calendar of events, and feel free to join us anytime.

Questions? Just fill out the short form on the home page. http://www.hawktalks.com

Featured on Mike's Show N Shine

I want to thank Mike's Show N Shine for featuring our Studebaker Champion today. The article struck a nice tone, and I also appreciated Mike's inclusion of my photographs. Thanks Mike!

Read the full article on Mike's Show and Shine here.

Jalopnik.com DOTS: Two Studebakers. We Can Do Better.

This is a rallying cry. Jalopnik.com publishes a feature named "Down on the Street" (aka DOTS). The DOTS articles highlight unique, classic, venerated, adored ... any vehicles worthy of discussion. And of the 200 DOTS to date, only a Lark VIII and an Avanti have been featured from the Studebaker bloodline.

While I love both the Avanti and the Lark, Studebaker owners need to show the breadth, depth, and engineering excellence of the Studebaker name with a few more Studes. Let's get a Speedster DOTS. I'm considering a trek from Sacramento to the Alameda with our trusty '50 bulletnose Champion.

Anyone else "in"? And hopefully, geographically closer?

See all 200 cars recorded in Jalopnik's feature, Down on the Street.

44th Annual Studebaker Drivers Club Meet

The 44th Annual Studebaker Drivers Club meet in Lancaster, PA, is in progress. We wish that we were in attendance. Below is a great picture from the SDC Swap Meet, posted on the SDC Forum.

View the SDC Lancaster Meet website here.

Jay Leno's Garage - 1950 Studebaker Champion

It’s a documented fact that I have an unhealthy obsession with our Studebaker. And aside from the joy that the car has brought my Dad and me, "Doc" has introduced me to a bunch of really fine people. It’s been great fun to connect with, trade information with, and help out (and be helped by) other Studebaker owners.

I was really pleased to see this post about “Doc” on Jay Leno’s website. Thanks to “Daymo Johnnie” for the post.

"There was a time when I thought not too much of cars like this but now, in the gray and saggy years, they look pretty good and take me back to what my dad used to put me into to go places in. I like to see good restorations and appropriate custom hot rods done from them and this restoration looks first class and gets a really deep nod. My dad has moved on but while yours is still here, get into that beauty, cruise out for a brew or burger and keep on being buddies through the car and in other ways. Thanks for the look-see at your gem and we’ll see you down at Clancy’s."

See our page on Jay Leno's website.

Jay Leno's Your Garage - Studebaker Champion

Jay Leno of the "Tonight Show" is known as an avid classic car collector. His "Your Garage" website allows collectors to post pictures of their cars online. The link below shows one of the mint Studebaker Champion's on the Jay Leno Garage website.

View Jay Leno's "Your Garage" website.