Studebaker Skyway Champion four-door cruising sedan, 1946. Jim Clark owns this, and he owns Mufflers Unlimited on North Center Ave. in Merrill, Lincoln County. Jim showed us the serial; she was the 10,154th built out of a production line of about 19,000 that year. He bought her back in October 2005. The original had been in a garage in South Dakota, with many of its pieces tucked in the cabin. As a result, this Champion has only 62,000 miles on her. Jim drives it as a second car. Take a look inside the engine compartment
Jim explained this engine to me, but I'm a history major and none of it registered. He was most certainly, and rightly, proud of it. He ran it for me and it purred like a kitten.
