After sleeping in my driveway for 15 years while I brought a '55 Champion & and '61 Land Rover back to life, yesterday while it was raining in here in the east S.F. Bay Area I got my '52 2R5 to run again. All it took was a new battery, the correct carb from Papas Studebakers (which is what stalled the project in the first place ), found a correct NOS air cleaner from S.I., and a water pump from Studebakers West. Next: boil out the fuel tank, some new tires, get all the lights to work again, license & insure it. Then start collecting the money to have the engine re-built correctly, some short-cuts were taken 25 years ago when I had little money & not as much knowledge in re-building Champion engines. Best to all, Chris Houck
1952 2R5 1955 Champion 16G6 Sedan 1959 Lark VI 1961 Land-Rover 88" series II station wagon 1966 BSA A65T and some other stuff scattered around...- posted
14 years ago