The Last Studebaker

Author : Robin Hemley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000122
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Studebaker written by Robin Hemley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, when Lois Kulwicki's father loses his job at Studebaker along with hundreds of other workers, he acts as if he has just been promoted. He buys a new car (the only non-Studebaker he's ever purchased) and takes his family on vacation. On the way home, Mom dumps Dad at a Stuckey's, and that's the last they see of him. Thirty years later, Lois has a family of her own, as fractured as her childhood family. Divorced but still living with her ex, she decides to move out with her two daughters and start over but then a stranger named Henry enters their lives. Out of this ersatz family, Lois tries to recover something of what she lost, beginning with a search for her abandoned father. The Last Studebaker is a warmly comic tale of lives changed forever, after the last Studebaker rolled off of the assembly line.

Author : Patrick R. Foster
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785832614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studebaker written by Patrick R. Foster and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Studebaker history is a short one, and a sad one at that, but inside Studebaker, you'll find a meticulously crafted history of the early automobile. Studebaker began business as a builder of covered wagons. By 1921 they were the number four automaker in the nation. By 1932 they were bankrupt. And for Studebaker, one of the most remarkable stories in American automotive history, that was only the beginning. Studebaker: America's Most Successful Independent Automaker tells the full and fabulously colorful history of this icon of the American automotive scene. Rife with triumph and tragedy, brilliant moves and boneheaded decisions, Studebaker's decades of building cars makes for a tempestuous saga featuring some of the more interesting characters in the twentieth-century business world. Above all, the story features cars that, for countless Americans, truly defined driving: not just the Champion, which rocketed the company back to the top in 1939, or the 1950s Raymond Loewy-designed Starliner, deemed a "work of art" by the Museum of Modern Art, but also the Hawks and Larks that so many drivers loved. As the book traces Studebaker's fortunes from success to crisis to merger and back, it also dwells with loving photographic attention on the vehicles, from the first electric car to the last Avanti.

Author : Thomas E. Bonsall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804735865
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than They Promised written by Thomas E. Bonsall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book (86 integrated illustrations) is the complete story of the Studebaker company from its beginnings to its end in 1966.

Author : Ed Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781583881071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studebaker Lark 1959-1966 Photo Archive written by Ed Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of bankruptcy in 1956, Studebaker needed a new car to survive. The result was the 1959 Lark. Designed to cut costs the Lark was kept simple. Sales in 1959 were good. In fact, it was the best sales year for Studebaker since 1950. Ultimately, the Lark was not enough to keep Studebaker alive but it added years to the company's life. Lark models have continued to gain popularity with collectors and they're attractive, fun to drive and some models are fast. High quality photos and in-depth captions bring you the entire line of Larks from the first to the last.

Author : Robert R. Ebert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602026
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Champion of the Lark written by Robert R. Ebert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career engineer at Studebaker, Harold E. Churchill became president of the recently merged Studebaker-Packard Corporation in 1956, at a time when finances were shaky and an aging product line was losing ground to the Big Three. Quickly launching a program of "realism and common sense," he focused the company's energies on a few selected market segments where he saw opportunities for gain. His vision for a compact economy car led to the Lark, the hit model that Studebaker desperately needed. This thorough examination of Churchill's leadership of Studebaker-Packard draws upon Board of Directors minutes, internal documents, oral histories and media reports in constructing a detailed account of these crucial years. In addition to covering the cars and trucks produced under Churchill in detail, it closely traces Churchill's actions as president and analyzes his motivations, the pressures he faced, his leadership style and the success or failure of his tenure.

Author : Albert Russel Erskine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Studebaker Corporation written by Albert Russel Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Foster
Publisher : MotorBooks International
ISBN 13 : 9781616730185
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studebaker written by Patrick Foster and published by MotorBooks International. This book was released on 1973 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard M. Langworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studebaker, 1946-1966: the classic postwar years written by Richard M. Langworth and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222363
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : Andrew Beckman
Publisher : M.T. Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781934729021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Studebaker National Museum written by Andrew Beckman and published by M.T. Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the company's history from the Studebaker family's arrival in America through the company's lasting legacy into the 21st century. The story is told through the vehicles and artifacts in the Studebaker National Museum, and highlighted throughout with images and illustrations from the Museum's vast Archives.--Publisher website.