Car ahead of its time sitting for years, will it start? 

So nice to see a father so patient with his children. Ralphie is definitely getting a whole lot of mechanical education!!! God Bless this family ,

I’m so jealous. This is by far the coolest car you have found. Definitely worth a restoration. Damn this is fantastic.

You guys (and Vice Grip Garage) are my two favorite car stuff shows. Both for the same reason. Your families. It is so important for kids to love cars and fishing and such, and it is so cool that you can bring back such memories of working on cars in the carport, with dogs and cats and kids(and yes, Goats) helping. I just love you guys.

Despite the little problems, you've gotten more memories for Ralphie than it cost for the old Studebaker! He'll remember that day..., forever! Good job Dad (and Mom)!!!

Totally blown away how he involves the children. Getting them enthused from such a young age. Incredible!!

I think the clutch issue is that being a stick it has overdrive. If the overdrive lever or knob is pushed in, overdrive is in effect and it will freewheel until is goes into overdrive, except for in reverse when it will always stop on compression. Pull the OD lever or knob out and it will always have compression braking just like a conventional stick shift. I had a '52 Champion for about seven years.

For a 71 year-old car, this is in nice shape and that paint may buff out real well. This is a great "survivor" car and i hope you have good luck with it.

Kudos to you sir for getting your kids involved and teaching them car basics. This kind of knowledge is fast disappearing especially with the classic stuff!

Ralphie is so so lucky to have a supportive dad drive instructor

The extra button under the clutch pedal is a hill holder. When you are stopped facing uphill you can keep the clutch pedal depressed , release the brake pedal, put your right foot on the accelerator and then slowly release the clutch which then releases the brakes. I had this feature on my 54 Studebaker Lowboy and it was a great help.

The Champions all had flat head 6 cylinder engines and the Commanders could be had with a 6 or a V8. I own a restored 51 Champion Starlight Coupe, so this episode is of special interest to me! I would encourage you to consider letting this be a keeper for you and your family.

I had a 1950 Studebaker Champion, It had a 6 cylinder engine, a "HILL HOLDER" brake, and an over drive differential. that I converted to shift to overdrive in every gear (so I had 6 forward and 2 revers gears. this made for a good tow car... In the winters in Michigan I would remove the nose cone and install a head light bucket in it's place to use as my bright light. because the dimmer switch on the floor would freeze on low beams. I also replaced the 6 volt battery with a 9 volt battery, as the 6 volt system worked better in every way than the 6 yolt ever would, and the 6 volt lights worked even better with 9 volts running them. It also starts far better on 9 volts than it ever could on the stock 6 volts.

Love this channel. The bond between you and your son is awesome. The goats make me smile every time. I can't forget the great selection of cars you work on. I like that you don't just limit yourself to the typical 2 door classics. Great job!

You are a great Father. I love the way you bring your children into you life and teach them the tings they need to know.

Loved watching this one! My Grandpa had a studebaker in the mid 50's He put a baby hemi in, beat the first exhibition corvette that came to our drag racing track with it. It was the family car!

Learned to drive in one of these Studebakers, my friend and me back and forth in his driveway, unsupervised in '56 or '57. His big sister's car. We did it a lot but never got found out. 😁

Just gonna say it, Puddin' is the cutest goat. Id take her home if I could.

Me & Noah love this one ...Noah says he wants to race it ...he says "I'd just be zoomin'!"

l learned to drive a 3 speed manual on a 1951 Studebaker, back in 1962, i was 13 years old. What a memory your video brought back.

My dad was a My dad was a studebaker mechanic after the second world war in Toronto .He drove only Studebakers until they folded in 1966 after they built the Avanti which at the time was the fasted stock built car ever made at that time.My first car i owned in 1966 was a 1960 Lark red convertible v8 3 in the tree with O.D. It was one of the nicest cars at that time.It was also quite fast.My dad owned a Commander and a Hawk pitty at that time we didn't know that they would be collectors items now.

It’s running perfectly! I think that’s how studebakers ran from the factory! Super cool to see this thing up and running again great job as always!

I think one is the starter the other a dimmer. Looks like a great car. The chrome looks all there. I always loved that middle head light. We I was growing up in Alabama as a teenager I worked with my dad and grandfather at a rechrome plant. My job was to go out to huge bummer piles and find the bumper or repairable and send them in. Then they were straighten and chromed. Love the videos guy. Can't wait for the next one.

I do like the styling of this one, it would be great to see it restored. I didn't think you would get a 6 volt coil that easily. I don't know if you had them in USA but in UK there was a tool called a Gunson Colortune which was a sort of spark plug with a window. You could tell whether the cylinder was running rich or lean by the colour of the explosion.

I'm watching this and feel back in time with my dad. He was a Sargeant for the motor pool during the Korean War and knew what made cars tick. He had the knowledge that you have but not the patience. Your very good man and an excellent Father. Please stay the way you are and never let success point you in the wrong direction. Every moment that you share with Your family will be precious, especially when time goes by. They will be there for you as you are for them. God bless.

Ralphie is the best little helper! What a great kid!

Always had a soft spot for Studebaker 😊

What you got with the thing coasting in gear is called freewheeling. It's a leftover from the 30's - they thought it would be a cool deal to just let it coast down - b ut there should be a switch or lever to take it out of freewheeling and make it normal

WOW. Amazing that you found an old Bullet nosed Studie! When I was a kid, my Dad had a 1952 Studebaker Champion and it too had a carb problem! It would idle, but when you stepped on the gas, it would die! Loved it anyway! You brought back a lot of memories for me!

Never let this studey go! I have been a solid Studebaker driver ever since I talked Mom into dumping her 54 Puick Dynaflush for a 50 Lark w/overdirve. Yours also has overdrive. We consistently got 24 MPG with it. I got a 64 Wagonairre and it was my daily driver in 86 and it was my daily driver until 2019. I moved to Manzanillo JAMX in 2019 and drove my 63 Hawk w/300,000 miles on the clock from NM to Manzanillo with no qualms as to whether it would get me there and "baby" is happily residing in my carport here. There is not a finer car on the road and the engine is ABSOLUTELY BULLET PROOF. I had to sell the 64 when I moved since I could not have both of them. STUDEBAKERS LIVE! AND THEY LIVE FOREVER! If anyone is interested in the Wagonairre with the sliding cargo roof. it is slowly dying at Buckskin Towing, Pagosa Springs CO. I hope someone will get it and bring her back to life. I hope that will be the case because I'd hate to see what her ultimate fate may be. It's downfall is the OD croaked. Someone please give her a new lease on life. Sincerely Studebaker fanatic!

MY family had a 1951 4 door Studebaker just like yours. Later, they got rid of that and got a 1955 Studebaker President and a 1953 Champion. My older brother really loved hot rodding that old 51. Enjoy that Beast and those kids. They grow up so fast.

I am so jealous you found it. Did it come with a hood? These cars were so ahead of its time and they made the big 3 so upset that they schemed to destroy them by getting the banks to refuse to lend them money.A guy around the corner has one near me and yours is in really super condition compared to his.

It’s not a pull handle on the back of the front seat, it’s a lap robe rail. A lap robe was a small blanket rear seat passengers could use to keep their legs warm.

That’s very nice car Studebaker I love those

Great find! We had a 51 Studebaker we had on our channel, definitely not as good of shape, lol. But we made sure it didn't go to the crusher. Nice find. 👍👍👍

Remember, with a Positive Ground system, the + terminal of the coil goes to the distributor wire, the negative terminal to the ignition switch wire. The factory coil was marked "Distrib" and "Ign". Engine will run with coil backwards, but spark will not be as strong.

I loved when the wife says: this is nicer than you usually get ". What a fun family.

That's a keeper. I just saw a '51 6 cylinder running project car for $7,200. It looked like it needed a lot more of TLC. 🤠😺🐂

That Studebaker comes from the time when cars were made to look like rockets and space crafts. Awesome find.

Your a good mechanic and never let anyone else tell you anything different. Just need to be patient with the old stuff, I am old and I will never steer you wrong.

Could not believe my eyes!!! Me and the wife went to Walmart. And their they finally restocked..... Bourbon barbeque Vienna's!!!!!!!!! I almost cried.. Lol!! Y'all have a blessed evening brother.

Always finding some of the coolest cars! Love all these crazy start up videos!

I have always wanted one of those, never got the opportunity to own one. Looks like you got a really clean one, I'm jealous.

33:24 there's a stronger possibility it has an intake valve not seating properly. If an intake valve is leaking around the seat and that chamber fires it will often ignite what's in the plenum; a true backfire. Fact that it's also doing this out the exhaust side clues me in that the valve seats are probably covered in shit and not sealing quite right. Even more proof its a good engine if it starts up and runs at all with valves not sealing right.

You have an awesome relationship with your son, I hope he understands what a great thing he has. Very special☺️

Lucky guys getting to play in a 2 door coupe V8 Studebaker! There's awesome Studebaker clubs around the country. Fathers,cars and families welcome. Your Stude is a real stud ...looks complete and straight, nothing missing, no visible damage. Thanks for sharing the posting, and the easily imagined ride along. God bless y'all.

Man it's really cool that you get your kids involved in these projects. My 13-year-old son and I are building a 1978 Chevrolet Nova for him to drive when he gets old enough. He's learned an awful lot about cars. Keep up the good work

Glad to see you got her running. The points surprised me, my guess was the timing. I know a guy that has two of these for about the past 30 yrs, he knows them inside out. If you have any troubles with it I can get you in touch with him.

My father had a Starline coupe, It was the first car I can remember from my childhood. I had several Studebakers when I was a teenager, my last was a 59 Lark. I never thought that Studebaker had a V8 in 1951.

My father and mother had studi about 49 or earlier. They saved there mony and ordered one. This was Washington DC , they said that when they drove it in the city everyone stopped and stared as no one had seen a new design in many many years, they looked so futuristic. I'm 70 and I remember the car parked in the side yard covered with weeds in the mid 50s. A car then that reached 100k miles was wore out.

My wife’s grandpa worked at Studebaker when this car was built. He had a black bullet nose one. Employees could follow their new car order down the assembly line and made sure it was done to their liking. He worked their until the plant closed in South Bend, Indiana. I worked at a gas station in South Bend area in 60’s during high school. Studebaker owners would come in and get $1 worth of gas and 5 quarts of bulk oil. Gas was quarter a gallon and oil was 20 cents a quart. They got great gas mileage, but bad oil mileage. My first Studebaker was a 1959 Lark for $35 in 1965. Ran and looked good.

Love your videos. Nice to see these old cars saved. The best part is your family. Love how y’all do things together. It shows your kids are being raised right. God bless you and your family. Always counting down to more videos!

First time viewer. I love your family dynamics and how everyone is involved in this project. Your goats are a real show in themselves. Buggers are so inquisitive. Southern lifestyle at it’s best. Now subbed for more entertainment

This is one of my favorite channels! Only thing different I would like to see is some full (or at least partial) restorations of some of these vehicles that you work on. Keep up the good work!

A 1951 Studebaker bullet nose. Made famous by Fozzie Bear in The Muppet movie. My junk car days are over, but I pulled quite a few home through the seventies. I don't know what it is with most of these folks on RU-vid, but before I even messed with the fuel system or anything else I pulled the cap off and checked the points. Make sure they're clean they're opening when the motor turns and you can flip them with the screwdriver while holding the coil wire away from ground to see if you got fire. Then try to start the thing. Never had a voltmeter just a test light. Used it to set the timing before I even started the engine. I did that to old International 6 cylinder on an all-terrain crane a friend of mine bought, he was amazed I could get that coil to throw a spark without the engine turning over. Didn't take much to amaze him.

I love squeaky's heart glasses and that you let your children be part of fixing these vehicles and on the channel.

This was my birth year, 51, and this car, this color was the first car I remember us owning! My Dad had a heavy foot and got a ticket doing 90 over the Raton Pass in northern New Mexico!🤣

Great car! From my limited experience, I assume that working on a Studebaker of this vintage is straightforward and eminently doable. A family friend about my father's age, owned one of these cars and most weekends he could be found under a cooling shade tree with his torso in the engine bay. One day as my father and I drove past and saw him, once again working on his car, I asked what the man did for a living. My father replied, completely seriously, "He takes his car apart and puts it back together."

Suggest replacing points/condenser and check the wire lead from coil to distributor for fraying/short. Love the channel👍

So cool to see this Studebaker running. My great-grandfathers used to work at Studebaker when this car came out. I'm happy for you all.

My Dad used to have one of those, but it Never Ran. It sat in Our Woods for My whole life.My Brother-N-Law Sold it in 1989 when Him and My Sister got married.

Now that’s a cool old car! Hopefully y’all will get to keep it since the kids like it so much!

Great video. I love the Studebaker brand, It was always dependable. I owned a 1952 Champion, flat head six w.3 on the column and an overdrive. I was able to get 26 mpg. I really miss that car. I had plans to restore it but life got in the way. Please keep up the good work.

Reminds me of working on old cars with my Dad when I was about your son's age. Doing everything from carb rebuilds to setting points & dwell by the time I was 10. Those backfires mean she's got too much timing or too much fuel or both. Thanks for keeping your kids learning about cars and mechanics in general!

I am so sympathize with the little daughter..she is so ashamed..I like her.. Ralphi is so cute and intellegent ..someday will be michanical engeneer..God bless you all my freind..

My father had a 1951 Studebaker when I was a about 4 years old. I believe it was a champion, unfortunately it caught fire on his way home from work one day. It was totaled. It also was the same color as yours. Good luck!

Thanks fellas & ladies for another outstanding video. Glad to see another classic back running n driving

Yes indeed that was a great find a 1951 Studebaker Champion and the body and the frame are not all rusted out so someone took pretty good care of it. Always fun seeing an old engine come back to life. A few more minor things and you will have a pretty good runner. Not back for a 70 year old car.

Great video Sleep. Very rare car, it runs, and is in remarkably good condition. For being all original. Love the Studerbaker👍👍🤙🤙

Sleeperdude? More like Superdude! Quite a mechanic, smart man. You and your wife have a really nice family. Your kids will learn plenty from you both and have a fun at the same time. And Jeopardy too! My wife and I loved your youngest daughters eye glasses, fits her perfect. You are a lucky man. Be well, stay safe..

Overdrive on the transmission tailstock is engaged; the overdrive's overrunning clutch allows engine to disengage from the drive-train in forward gears. Push or pull the overdrive handle (chrome t-handle by your right knee) to disengage the overdrive.

I am amazed at your ability to get cars we had when I was growing up My uncle had a towing business and we were always getting a new used car. If we had that one it wasn’t for long. But I do remember having ash trays in the back seat. It might not have been a built nose but definitely a studabacker

I love the independents - Nash Airflights, Hudsons, Studebaker bullet-noses. They were all actually really good cars with their only fault being that they were ahead of their time. Great show and I always get such a kick out of Ralphie. You have a great son. By the way, seatbelts were first offered from the factory by Ford in 1955.

one of the coolest cars I've ever seen. I think they had a weird transmission design that would let it roll like that? automatic coasting or something but with "hill holder" so it won't roll back? I know the hill holder thing is real, I might be imagining the automatic coasting part, but this era had a bunch of strange ideas like this for a few years before they went back to regular auto and standard trans designs.

Hello from a little town called Chinhoyi in Zimbabwe! Yeah, out here in Africa! I really enjoyed the laid-back approach you have with your kids and the animals and the general informality of your presentation, really most refreshing and extremely enjoyable. Thank you so much! I have a couple of oldies; a 56 Cadillac Coup de ville, a Mark9 and a Mark1 Jaguar, also from the 50's, a 62 Mercedes 220 Fintail and a Citroen 2CV. trouble is, none of them are working right now!! so I walk a lot, which is good for a 73 yrae-old! There's quite a good following of the Classic Car scene out here...believe it or not. Thanks again and keep up the good work on that lovely old Studebaker!

One of my Aunts bought a new 1950. I thought it was the coolest car I had ever seen. I took my driver's test when I turned 16. Pretty car.

Great parents, great kids, great content, great channel!! Love you guys!

Gorgeous car SleeperDude, Studebaker's were by far one of the most beautiful American cars. The Commander, Lark, Avanti ect. This car with a little love can be a great driver. P. S, that carb backfire in the end was a unexpected one!

Just subscribed to your channel. Man, love how you keep it real and do all of this including your family. Too many channels I've subscribed to just grew to the point where what initially got me hooked on totally changed. You got a good thing going on. Hope I can get my boys involved in stuff like this when they get older. Wife on the other hand barely knows where to put gas in. 😄

We are watching this video for the three time. I think my husband really,really liked it !

If I remember correctly, Studebaker had a 'hill holder" built into the clutch. It made starting up on a hill with a manual transmission car easy. Love your channel, especially the kids and the Kidds. For some reason this shows my Wifes name, I'm a guy, and a retired diesel mechanic. really enjoy watching old iron coming back to life! keep up the good work.

I've always loved the noses on these old Studes.

Love your family dynamics. Good kids!!

I have really enjoyed this video. I love you're including your lovely family members, the kids, goats, and pigs. Mr Ralphey does a great job helping his Dad. It's just a fun video to watch. Oh...and then there's your great southern accent. Subscribed "fur" sure.

I've got a 51 Champion. It's nice to see a V8 survivor. I drive mine to car shows and it wins too. Thanks for showing it.

Great job getting that old Studebaker up and running. I remember these as a kid and would avoid any street where they were parked , they scared me.

Great video Love the pets and family involvement and super cool car ,i always had a soft spot for the bullet nose design.May you prosper

A cool classic! Definitely worth a restoration or even as a daily driver. 👍 It will only go up in value. I like the Circle K sign.....that's neat.

Thanks for sharing, Josh. I loved it! 🙂

My dad owned two Studebakers, a 1951 Commander and a 1957 Hawk. He loved them both. My dad loved cars. He worked on cars and taught mechanics to straighten and repair bent and damaged frames. He would've loved your channel. His name was Robert and he passed in 2019 at 89. RIP Dad 🙏

My dad's 1950 Studebaker had a small propeller on the nose which, as a kid, I enjoyed playing with. It was the first car he bought brand new. Kind'a dates me, doesn't it.

That's definitely a going to town car!

Paint it lime green....... that one is a keeper the body looks pretty straight

Nice channel and I am one of your old followers and I do not know the English language. I hope you will put the translation feature in Arabic. I am waiting for this request in the next video 🙏❤

I love the baby goat jumpin' around. It'll be on top of the car before you know it.

Love Studes. My grandfather worked for them. My father drove a car hauler with Studes out if South Bend in the 1950s

Love the way you involve your children and trust them to have responsibility.

When I was a kid in the 1940's and early 1950's, Studebakers, Nashes, Hudsons, Packards, Desotos, Henry J's, and Kaisers were as commonplace as Chevys and Fords on the road! My uncle always bought Studebakers, a fast automobile. I used to drive his 1953 Studebaker, a light but powerful car. Studebakers were way ahead of their time. To me, it is so sad we no longer have Studebakers, Packards and Hudsons.

Studebaker is a beautiful car. That Jade Green Thunderbird is beautiful as well. Love those Thunderbirds .

I hope you see this comment. I am sure many of them are basically the same as mine. I absolutely love watching your videos. I tell you one thing though, you can not be dropping your VY-ANNERS on the ground like that. It's a real treat to know that there are still some families who do what ya'll do. You are each so blessed to have one another and interact the way y'all do. I grew up with three older brothers and my father was a Detroit Diesel master technician on the old two stroke Detroits. We all had the blessing of doing most of the same things that I see all of you doing. God bless you and yours Sleeper Dude

From '51 when the 232 OHV V8 was introduced onward, Commanders had the V8, Champions had the flathead six. A '51 Commander Starlight Coupe (3 speed + OD) was my first daily driver, back in 63. When we got married in 65, my wife and I went on our honeymoon in it, and it continued on as our daily driver until late '69. One of two cars that I wish I still had, out of 40 some-odd cars in the ensuing 60 years.