Correct engine! Who the "F---" cares??????? I went to a nice show last Saturday. After walking around a bit, I spotted a car the freaked me out. There, as pretty as could be was a 56 Power Hawk that was exactly the same two tone paint scheme as my Dad's was in '57. I drove that car quite a bit (Dad was suprisingly OK about that). In August of 59 I drove it from South Jersey to Cape Cod by myself ( never got lost either). I looked the car over carefully to find that the owner had done a very admirable job of restoring it. I don't know how much he knew about Studebakers but I did see that it had the wrong engine. It was a later model "full flow" engine with a 4-bbl WCFB on top. Everything else looked very correct so I don't know whether he was aware of the incorrectness of the engine. But that's one of the nice tings about AACA; their judges don't know enough to be looking for technical accuracy. Like I asked, "Who the "F---" cares?? That car was NICE and I would take it any day. Dexter
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17 years ago