Two 1965 Studebakers in the same place? What are the odds? Something fishy is going on here…
CC Caption Contest: What’s He Telling Her?
– Posted on April 10, 2023
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Two 1965 Studebakers in the same place? What are the odds? Something fishy is going on here…
“… now, once we buy the third one, we’ll have cornered the market on 1965 Studebakers.”
Perfect answer!
I believe this only existed in suburban Advertisingville.
“You cheap $%#@, I wanted a Cadillac.”
Addition: I do not know what he is saying, but what I wrote is her response.
He even got her an El Strippo with dog dish hubcaps…
But his has the ultra wide gap atound the door, a Studebaker no-charge option.
But you know I work at the Studebaker dealer. So this is what we get. See, you get the economical 4 door for toting the kids around.
Back when you could leave open a ground story window…
And LOOK!! Since I bought you one too, you get to choose a free pizza!
Look, I know you wanted the R3 engine, but they don’t offer them anymore. See, look at the brochure. So I got the Chevy 6 instead…
But honey, they were buy one get one free!
He’s the salesman who sold the red one to her.
“Never mind the door gaps on that white demonstrator, we can get yours fixed, dear. Why don’t we step inside and we can discuss further…”
“By golly the realtor was right – the neighborhood covenants really do prohibit homeowners from parking more than a single Studebaker at the property.”
or
“I really didn’t mean to buy the second one Honey, but when your know-it-all brother kept going on about how they were going out of business, I just couldn’t help it.”
He doesn’t realize that her bags are already packed and in the E-type she’s parked in the garage. She’s leaving for Los Angeles in the morning.
“See, if I’d won THIRD prize, we’d have had three, so second isn’t so bad.”
Baby, please don’t go.
Baby, please don’t go.
Baby, please don’t go down to New Orleans.
You know I love you so, baby please don’t go.
Well yes technically that is a receipt but I can’t just return it….
“You know something Thelma, I think that Sea Monkeys are the perfect pets for the kids, and look here, they only cost a dollar!”
“I’m A Man of Action, my dear, and A Man of Action buys two cars at once. At least I think that’s what the other ad meant.”
“I know Betty has a Sedan de Ville and Jim a Coupe, and that the new neighbors on the other side have Lincolns….everybody in the suburb will know it’s you coming, my dear”
“If you would treat me better you would get a better car. Get the message, sugar?”
“Honey, we can’t keep up with the not-Niedermeyers across the street with their matching pair of Bonnevilles!”
Baby, with all the money we just saved on these two Studebaker Larks, and the fuel we’ll save, think of all the places we can now afford to go in these wonderful travel brochures!
But honey, our friend Wilbur said Studebakers were great cars, claims he got if straight from the horse’s mouth.
Here is that brochure on the Bible Camp we’re sending all six of our kids to. The church will pay half the costs. Would that conflict with your Tupperwear party next month?
Look Honey, these will have much better resale value than the our two Edsel’s I traded in.
See, honey, I got you your favorite color, “red wine”. Mine is “coc…er…beer foam, that’s it”.
I got you the 4-door so you can put the kids and Mother-in-law in the back. See, you wanted me to make your life easier, right?
Oh man ! .
You guys are hitting it out of the park today .
I always liked these late models Studebakers .
Especially the white two door, I had a screw in 1968 who had one, what a great car ~ one Winter he put studded snow tires on it and went ice racing .
-Nate
“These will hold us over until the new 1967s come out in a few years! The boys are hard at work in South Bend!”
The 1965 brochure does not list the Challenger (cheapest) models like it did for 1964. But these must be Challengers given the lack of a trim strip down the upper side – probably early photos from before actual 1965 production started. Kind of embarrassing in that upscale suburban neighborhood if it was real, and two would have been at least four times as embarrassing as having just one. Real Studebaker diehards living there would have gotten a long wheelbase top of the line Cruiser, but then any Studebaker buyer at that point would be on the eccentric side.
“What the fuck? I thought you wanted the white one?”
“Sorry dear, I got a much better price on the pink one, see?”
“And in addition to this red one, you get every woman’s dream – a free vacuum! Isn’t that great honey?”
He’s saying “MaryAnn, I know JP keeps talking about getting a Studebaker but I have two right here, how much longer are you going to wait until you get the best car ever made? You deserve this now…”
Honey… if you wanted a divorce you should have just said so….
“Yeah, I know, but it doesn’t matter if if he had his turn signal on and went straight…you hit him and that means it’s YOUR fault.”
(we can’t see the front end of her red car)
“Sure enough, it does say the color is ‘Raw Liver’”.
“ You asked for two Studebakers and being a good husband I got you two Studebakers.”
“I asked for two rutabagas George. Just two rutabagas.”
“Yeah-the centerfold DOES kinda look like Midge from across the street….”
Just one more section of the driving test, and you’ll get your license! Back out without hitting the white car.
“You think just because you buy me a Studebaker with a matching suitcase that you can just have your way with me? DEAL!”
“Wilbur, see what I bought with the money I got from selling that silly horse of yours”
So they call it the “Toyota Corona”. I’m thinking of signing up for the franchise, now that Studebaker corporate’s shut down production in South Bend and started bringing everything in from Canada with Chevy engines, I think it’d be wise to take on a second line…
Not to worry, they were just having a lark…
Now that they got her husband in the trunk they are mapping out where to dump the body. Oh the irony, hubby’s name was Ed, Mr. Ed.
If wanted 2 doors, you’d have to have chosen white…….
Yes, ma’am – as you can see here, the purchase of a second Studebaker is grounds for divorce in Connecticut.
Yes honey, I know you like living here in South Bend where your family has been around for 5 generations, I like it here too, but as I’ve been warning you for the last 6 months, the company is insisting we relocate to Ontario, Canada.
So I went ahead and put a deposit down on a house in Hamilton, Ontario. Our new neighbor is a nice young man named Red Green, he’s a bit eccentric, but I think you’ll like him.
Aye! it’s not so bad up there!