1939 Studebaker coupe express - Page 45 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

t walgamuth · #**661** 08-20-2014, 01:36 PM

A thousand here, a thousand there and pretty soon it adds up to a lot more than the car is worth!

t walgamuth · #**662** 08-21-2014, 10:49 AM

Today Michael found the closure pieces needed to fill the hole between the bed, cab, fender and running board.

Woooo hoooo!

they are Coupe express specific for the years 38 and 39 and are easy to lose and hard to duplicate. I had arranged for another CE owner to loan me his so we could copy them but now this will not be necessary.

Simpler=Better · #**663** 08-21-2014, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Today Michael found the closure pieces needed to fill the hole between the bed, cab, fender and running board.

Woooo hoooo!

they are Coupe express specific for the years 38 and 39 and are easy to lose and hard to duplicate. I had arranged for another CE owner to loan me his so we could copy them but now this will not be necessary.

It might be worth scanning your parts if they're that tough to find, or making a clay mold

Still cheaper than a 2014 G can? You're set then

t walgamuth · #**664** 08-21-2014, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Simpler=Better

It might be worth scanning your parts if they're that tough to find, or making a clay mold

Still cheaper than a 2014 G can? You're set then

A what?

t walgamuth · #**665** 09-10-2014, 10:49 PM

HI We found the pieces for the closure so no need to build them anymore. I got emailed pictures from my fabricator today. The truck is painted. It looks pretty yellowish. I hope it looks better in person. I'll post the pictures as soon as i can.

pmckechnie · #**666** 09-11-2014, 08:12 AM

Tom, we were in Fort Mill. SC last weekend and saw a yellow Studebaker pickup. We only got a 1 or 2 second look, so can't tell you much about it except it was yellow, and I mean YELLOW.
Fort Mill is a small town so it shouldn't take much to find it if you are ever down here.

PaulM

Mölyapina · #**667** 09-11-2014, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

A what?

I think he's thinkin' G-Wagen.

Dan Stokes · #**668** 09-11-2014, 08:59 AM

I hope it looks the way you want it to. One of the reasons I do my own is that I can adjust the color in process if needed.

Dan

barry12345 · #**669** 09-11-2014, 10:39 AM

Yellow was a factory color on many Studebaker trucks I believe. The years this started or stopped is an unknown to me. It was a real yellow but not tasteless I remember. I hope it was not designated as lemon yellow.

t walgamuth · #**670** 09-12-2014, 01:34 PM

Michael says it does not look too yellow. It's a beige gray with just a hint of yellow if its the way I wanted it. I think the yellow one you saw may be near a fly yellow as on ferrari or on corvettes. It maybe a guy named deepnhock from the stude forum. His runs a sun visor and sits very low in front.

barry12345 · #**671** 09-12-2014, 02:18 PM

Color perception has always been interesting to me. I almost feel no two people quite visualize a color the same exact way. We have no designed system in our brains probably to even enable a common internal standard grey scale properly.

A neighbourhood lady received many comments on a green color she chose. Many where negative unfortunately. When she asked me my thoughts. I told her I automatically understood her choice. It is very close to if not the color of money.

Must be hell to be siting at a sidewalk table in Greece watching all the ladies stroll by. At the same time wondering what does that color actually look like at home on the vehicle.

What have daytime temperatures and humidity been like so far Tom? Reasonably ideal I hope.

mach4 · #**672** 09-12-2014, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Michael says it does not look too yellow. It's a beige gray with just a hint of yellow if its the way I wanted it. I think the yellow one you saw may be near a fly yellow as on ferrari or on corvettes. It maybe a guy named deepnhock from the stude forum. His runs a sun visor and sits very low in front.

Like this one? Almost identical to my Corvette, by the way.

Dan Stokes · #**673** 09-12-2014, 03:09 PM

That's Deepnhock's truck. He's a friend and is doing a LOT of the work on the Avanti that I'm affiliated with. It currently has a small block Chevy but he's building a trick Studebaker V8 for it.

We removed and rebuilt the Avanti's 'cage at his shop which is in rural Georgia outside of Savannah. He drives the truck to shows all over so it likely made it to S. Carolina.

Dan

pmckechnie · #**674** 09-12-2014, 07:37 PM

That is not the truck I saw in SC. The one I saw had Studebaker on the side of the hood and I don't think it had the sun visor, but it was the same color.

PaulM

t walgamuth · #**675** 09-12-2014, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by pmckechnie

That is not the truck I saw in SC. The one I saw had Studebaker on the side of the hood and I don't think it had the sun visor, but it was the same color.

PaulM

there is a 39 around in that color or one very close to it. i really like the color but chose a more conservative color for mine. i think the lighting in michaels shop distorted the color a bit on mine. color is a tricky thing. my mrs is a little color blind...we argue about blues and greens from time to time, or browns, always the same ones .

the temperature in athens each day was in the eighties but not crushingly humid.

where i am now at 430 am it is very comfy to sit outside in shorts and a t shirt. we are up in the mountains in olympia. i just sat on the balcony and listened to a very quiet village.

a car stopped down the street on the left and after a while a young man got out and walked up the side street. later a large box truck with a canvas top, perhaps carrying produce ground down the hill and turned onto my street. it must have had at least 20 white lights on the front and that many down each side in amber. in addition he had extra large white lights on the front. it was like daylight in front of him.

then a kitty noticed me and came and sat in the street below, i'm on the second floor (third to us) and looked up to see if i'd feed her. i dropped down a couple bits of bread but she didn't care for them. another kitty came up when she saw things coming down but didn't care for bread either.

then i heard some birds calling out, noticed some bats flying around and began to hear cocks crowing.

pretty soon another car came down the hill and turned by me. it was an alfa sedan and looked nice but sounded old with things rattling and clanging. it stopped in the next block and the driver got out and appeared to wire up the exhaust a little then got in and drove on.

olympia is a lovely little village. it appears to be pretty much all new...meaning no buildings noticed over twenty ? years old. all buildings are reinforced concrete with clay tile infill and plaster applied to the tile....just like most of
my commercial building in lafayette. doors are wood. everything is very tidy. the streets are concrete cobbles as are the sidewalks. the curbs are granite.

it appears to me the federal government decided that there would be the ancient site excavated and a village built to cater to the people who came to visit and somehow stimulated it to occur. i can see the greek frustration with the austerity cuts forced by germany. greece is providing a vacation land for all the world and when the economy sneezes tourism gets pneumonia i

imagine.

there are lots of Asian people around and a lot of americans and brits.... aussies too.

thursday we rolled into Delphi to visit the ancient site after climbing through the mountains and found our hotel was on the main drag which is a small paired one way. it was newer construction too, very nicely detailed with tile floors and nice door hardware. the rooms there and here have mitsubishi split systems so no ducts are needed.

when we got upstairs we found from the balcony there was a stunning view down a few thousand feet vertically and ten miles away was the gulf of corinth and a small port village.

there appeared to be a canal running by through the valley. i asked the manager and found it supplies mountain drinking water to Athens.

the mountain to the left of us soared up much higher with many trees. i thought if there were guerillas fighting there were plenty of places to hide there. there was a small road which crawled up its side with places that had six or so switchbacks. the views were just stunning. there is a small restaurant attached with lovely views of the same where we ate dinner and breakfast. the service and food was outstanding.

these villages that cater to tourists are switzerland clean.

yesterday when traveling through country with few tourists there were some grungy areas. in smaller villages the farmers live there too and park their tractors on the street along with the cars.

i went into a bank to change money and the folks there really did not know how to fill out all the forms. i asked if they did not see too many tourists there and he said not very many. there are security doors resembling air locks with bulletproof glass as we saw in italy in 01.

we are enjoying the freedom of traveling by car. a person the mrs talked to who was on a tour said the tour busses drop you at a historic site and say be back at the bus in one hour, then take you to the tourist shops for two hours.

but touring like that is better than staying home and watching reality tv i guess.

driving is a bit of a challenge, the traffic signs are of the universal type which are not tough to decifer but the directional signs are not completely informative and we occasionally get a bit lost. with the twisty roads its not always easy to tell by the sun which way is correct to go. the traffic is no worse than italy or the appalacias in the us. drivers who know the roads get on with it and are mostly courteous but can be a bit impatient if you aren't into hurrying and they are. in the mountains i did not hurry because of the spectacular views but when we were in the flat lands only a few passed us.

there are quite a few mercedes here including a class mini vans. the most common may be fiat but a lot of the taxis are skoda. the rest of the taxis are mercedes, all of them are diesel.