This will be a page with my work on a Studebaker Starlight Coupe 1951. The first picture is after I've dig the car out of all kind of garbage. Next picture is the car cleared of all the stuff that covered the car, and next step is to get it home in my garage and to start the work with it.

At the photo you see a small compressor, it was so narrow that I had problem to try to change the wheel, so I decide to try to blow up the wheels. The car had been standing with no air in the wheels for more than 35 years, (since the car was placed in the car shed), so I started the compressor and start blowing up the wheels. And it was a miracle, the rubber in the wheels was still good and the wheels kept the air, and that was after 38 years !!!!

Here is the car on the tow truck, it's a beautiful car or hopefully it will be that when I'm finished, I'm on the net and look at photos of these cars, and I can only say, they are very nice.

A photo of the front and you can see that the bullet nose is missing

But here is the bullet nose.

Home at last.

Then a little soap and water, and things looks better.

Then, after placed the car into the garage, I have start the dismounting, and start with the door panels and then I took off the doors and the hood. It was a hell of a job to get the doors off, not both, but one of the screws in the right door hinge was a hell to get loose. It took me two days to loose it, even with a lot of penetrating oil. I used an impact puller, spraying on penetrating oil and tried again, left it and tried again. I thought I had to drill out the screw, and I thought I had a last go, and then it came loose.

I'm also about to split the doors so I can check the lift for the windows. They was working good, but I still want to open up to see how they look and to clean inside. Then I'm going to sandblast the doors and then prime them, and this is what I'm going to do with some of the other things too.

A view into the coupe and I have start dismounting the seats. and they need new textiles, there have been some mouse having a good time in the seats.

So there will be a lot of work and I will try to tell you how things is going further. The four bolts that was on the seat frame, was not coming out easily, it took me a couple of days and some sweat. So now the seats is out and I'm going to clear the floor to see how this look beneath the mats. After that I'm going to clean it and prime the floor.

I did get out the seats and even the back of the backseat, so now I can start to clean the floor.Take off mat etc.

Here you can see into the car from the rear thru the trunk, and I,ve start to clear it down to the metal, then I'm going to prime the trunk. And when I'm finished with the trunk, I'm going to start in the car and clear all the floor. Taking off the old mat etc. The well for the spare tire need to be done too.

Today I've cleared the trunk of all asphalt or tar surface a lot of work and dust, but now it's shining and ready for priming. On this photo you can see that I've cleared all the asphalt /tar and paint and it's shining

And here I have put on primer. So now it looks good, and it's only the rest......!!!!

A photo of part of the Dashboard, but I was a little confused about the different switches and what they are for, some of these switches is aftermarked so I have to follow the cables to see where they lead to.

I was not so happy when I took of the fender gravel guard and saw this, the fender gravel guards is on the floor. This gives me more work and welding.

On both side there is two arm rest compartments, they are big and deep and you see them both before I take them out.

I'm sure you can keep a half pig in them, at least a case of beer. I took them out because I wanted to clear the floor completly.

So I start to use an angle grinder with a steel brush, and this did the job, you can see the bare metal is shining and my face was the opposite. I was not allowed to go in to the living room to have a cup of coffee, not in those cloths she said.

I thought taking of the wheels would be a piece of cake, oboy I was wrong, I use a lot of penetrating oil, but still it was difficult, and you see the result here, one bolt is broken. Then a Studebaker friend told me, when I said it was difficult, he said remember the nuts on the left side is left threaded..............? Left thread?? Okay, I went out and tried to pull the nuts left thread and guess what..they came of nicely, even after forty years.

To get the drum off I had to remove this nut, was it right or left threaded? I brush of the sand and dust to try to see which way the threads was going. After cleaning I wa still not able to see if it was left or right threads. I decide after a talk with a Studebaker friend to try to pull it off the "normal" way. I took the wrench and gave it a little blow with the hammer and it came off nicely, after I've removed the split pin of course. Now I have to use a pulling tool to get the drum off.

The floor above cross rail under the front seat look like this, so more welding and there was also a hole in the front on the right side too.

I was testing my horns that I got from Ernie (Loga Enteprises), and they was working, but, need to be cleaned and paint. Two sounds, one was rather high in the tone and the other was deeper. Sound nice

.I have to change the cables on the horn and I change one of the cable before I was testing them, because the insulation was off. I just had to remember that on this car, then + is the ground, not like I'm used to, with - to ground.

I was also testing the horn that was on the car, (see the photo) these horn are probably aftermarket, but the sound on the horn was very nice.

It took me some hours to get the rear bumper off and the deflector for the rear bumper too, but they are off at last.

I think I'm going to take off the shock absorbers to the rear bumper too, so I can brush and paint them.

I don't think I will need the nationality mark, because I don't think I will travel much abroad , but you never no, so I think I'll keep it.

I was a little puzzled what this was and how I could open the butterfly valve on the left side, I tried to move the arm to the right and then to the left, but I could not move it. Then I tried to pulled it and sim sala bim it open. So what was the round buttom left for the butterfly valve?? I tried to pull, nothing happen, then I try to turn it, and then I looked out the window and saw the antenna was going up and down, not bad, but I have to get a new antenna, because this one does not look good.

There is a butterfly valve on the right side too, but so far I have not found out how I can open the outer valve, the inside valve that you see on this photo, you can just pull the nob, but outside valve??

Here I've got of the front and also taken out the radiator so it will be easier to get to the engine. And you can see that there are plenty dirt here.

The engine block need to be cleaned too.

Here I've start to remove some of the dirt and it's piling up on the floor.

There is some dirt here too, but I'll clear that when I get the engine out.

You get rather dirty in the face when you are under the car try to get some rusty bolt out. Not very nice?

There is no doubt that the engine need to be cleaned, but the carrot is that it might be nice in the end when I'm finished.

This thing puzzeld me a little, what could this be? It's sitting under the left front wing, and does not say a thing. But after study this for awhile I came to the conclusion that this must be a membrane pump since it was a small nipple on it, possible for a 4 mm tube.

By looking under the dasch board I could see there was a foot pedal on the floor, this seam to have connection to the membrane pump outside under the left front wing. So I found out that this must be for the windshield washer. So where was the watertank?? Unfortunately it was not there, but again it's possible to get it from Ernie in Loga Enteprises. I could make something fancy with an electric pump, but I would like to have it back to the original .

There is so many small things that need to be done, here is the starter which I've cleaned and prime it and it's ready for painting, so it would be looking nice, so there is a lot of small things that need to be done.

Like this, the antenna does not look nice, I might change it and keep the elevator for lifting and lower the antenna. I must see when I dismounting it.

Here is the ligt for the licence plate and opener for the trunk dismounted.

Here you can see the butterfly valve on the left side. The second photo is taken under the left front wing and you can see that the canal is missing. . Here I've removed the valve so you can look in.

I'm about to dismount the frame for the radiator, and the bolt was not easy to reach, and when I thought I had taken all the bolts, and thought I could lift out the frame. But, I could not get it out, so a closer look and there was two more bolt keeping the frame to the car. With this frame out, it should be easier to get the engine out.

Here you can see the bolt, who hold the frame. There is flat bar steel connected to the frame, and this bolt is not small. It goes thru the chassis, and it will take some time to get the nut off, because it's rusty.