Tom, I have been giving your project some consideration. You have a temporary bad shoulder. Age is slowley advancing and a replacement knee installed.

We have to find someone to approach the producers of the overhauling show with a real sob story. I assume you get the show in your region and are familiar with it?

To me this may be the best way to get around any issue with those wheel covers. Let Chip Foose deal with it. Even if he demands to restore the trucks body to perfection and install custom wheels. Sacrifice your ideals and let him go. We all have to make sacrifices sometimes remember.

Part of this is only in jest.. The lines on that hudson vehicle would enable him to really put together a spectacular resulting episode.. That more than anything is the best selling point. He has been doing too many semi boring cars and trucks the last while on the show in my opinion.

Something like this project has been messed up as a story line and overhauling is going to fix it. The fix it shows are the most powerful recent approachs on the televison medium anyways. That approach could increase their ratings further is another angle. After all the show is what counts and your truck is just incidental to the process but somewhat still a unique design. Your ancestor or ancestors having working for the Studebaker corporation would obviously help as well. Doing an orphan like your vehicle to me would have real appeal to them.


Your vehicle could give that show a real boost. Just do not lose your voice as you have to scream out that you have been overhauled at the end remember. I assume you would be willing to trailor the car to them and home later. Although they have the bucks to arrange it and probably would.

I wonder if we have a member in California that could do the legwork and appearances required? If nothing else it would produce quite the thread even if it did not jell. He will need pictures of a factory original to attempt to sell them. I feel an active member may live close enough to help.

The only problem I can forsee is if we could still relate to Tom the televison star. Gotta go build something before Tom gets his hands on me.