European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse I can be reclined to make but the Drivers scat is de j out and carry 9 or 3mcnl to our its sex d now drives the in amazement and envy of the scats Are stuffed with i under the front to keep it w Yale University Sopho iks like someone put it to but people always ask if sell after brought me Home from mlle lovers agree that there rear ending our prayers and forget it if counsels the that the Only drawback to nest has put More than and it has the original As it gets he sch incr of new jello prevailed in collisions d a Cadillac on Christmas a disk i drove my c had to be the vow Teeth in front but it runs of fared As a Guy made a left turn right a Yale the who picked the Glass out of of the Volkswagen no to go there with that con Uebelman bought another Money he received after which he has Ler and carpeting to cover ask me to buy a better to keep this its treated we have a symbiotic re of this special my cars a said Sheila a 30yearold College student in she got her Beetle As part of a divorce settlement and said it has to make it on its like i neither one of us gets any tender Loving Marianne Crane of Detroit values the Volkswagen for its her Beetle is a 13yearold and hashed no major in Snow storms my husband leaves his Ltd Home and takes my she some owners Are drawn to the Beetle because of its somewhat eccentric Peggy a geor Gia state capitalized on that in her elec Tion i needed something people could identify my Campaign she so i had a Hal Vinyl White roof put on some eyelashes painted around the and the whole car done Over in hot Pink and i wanted people to know that in a Lively and vivacious Meg Gale is a los Angeles lawyer who traded in a Fiat for a in a Little worried about my she said with a i used to be a redhead in a yellow sports now my hair is Black to natural and in driving a she chose a Silver with a air stamped metals wheels poor mans ver Sion of mag wheels that they put on and Michelin in still trying to hang on to my playgirl image As i approach my late she sometimes i can almost delude myself when in going Down the thruway that in in a sports John a new York City used that distinctive shape to advantage recently when he moved a Bathtub from new Jersey to his 1 strapped it to the top of the car he it fit right since the shapes Are so i figured if the car flipped id sail across the Hudson in a the Meyer car is Bright it looks like a clock work he with More than beetles off the Assembly it is the most Mas produced car in sur passing the Model t Ford by at least just because its Mas produced Doest mean it int contended and gradually they will Digap then the last living Beetle will be considered an absolute id sales figure that the Price More than you expected to 9 get the mileage that the fed ascribes to the Little in super Highway figures that m per take the much i then subtract one or on from this for w Rabbit rated at 43 Highway Sill give Al any Way its who gets More will be that but no realist will be Digap minus 2 mileage forum a Corolla lists at plus and rubber doormats approach by a step such As the 10 Fastback with carpeting but no that would Cost extra is Jid Factor in or so for a Dis even a Honda civic Hatch i is plus sales or that the imports arc Selling this s Are counting on styling to keep rhe sporty cars Arent As Roomy but they Are fast and Detroit has always found sue is Dat suns 200 which looks a sleek Maroon car Ted afm and air con plus sales tax and no discount but there Are plenty of Toyo a sleek Tan celica with its fancy wheels Ning is plus a Volks ver with striking plaid seats and without but its a Little Ore trunk space and a hefty mile its by foreign units of Detroit re another part of the Equa Buick dealers sell an opel made by a Japa Nese Chrysler Plymouth Arrow and Dodge Colt Are made by Mitsubishi of Ford Sells the sporty european and later this year Ford dealers will have a european the Ford the advantage of owning a As these Are is that there Are plenty of dealers to give them the trouble is that when the Parent american company decides to build a competitive Model at Many dealers treat the captive As an resale value slumps and it May take months to get a a wild yellow Plymouth decked out with stripes in four colors and loaded with automatic Vinyl roof and a dressed up is plus sales a Blue opel 2door Fastback with an automatic transmission rear window defogger and body Stripe is plus tax and minus a there arc still sport such As the Triumph spitfire and the tr7 fits 124 sport with a Back the x19 the higher priced Dat Sun Lancia Beta Alfa Romeos and the exotics such As the importers Are eager to sell cars la the to such As vows Dasher and Audi Fox for a Dasher with a posh Interi or and automatic but they Dis count the new Dat Sun s10 with air a tilt steering wheel and afm but no automatic and the which run up to for a big when you want the finest Wagon in the you have to go to says Larry who Sells them there Are some 1976 models left particularly in medium priced lines plus a few models of the import that started it a Fingernail red Volkswagen convertible in Gen singers Volkswagen showroom in has Whitewall and carpeting and is priced at before even a Plain Beall with a radio is plus the people who buy them had them says a Young Ray Wiysel with a 1936 Studebaker sport pickup a True Studebaker dealer by Jules Loh associated press Ife seems to lose its urgency in out where the Placid Platte flows into the meandering mis at least Ray Wiysel thinks Wisset is the Studebaker Ive been a Studebaker dealer since Wiysel wiping calloused hands on a grease stained it was a Good business then and it is i see no reason to when i sold cars to All those people All those years they depended on me to keep them Here i there he and his Wiysel Auto service Letterhead still has on it that Slen Der encircled s Monogram and the sign outside his crowded showroom says Stu Debaker authorized sales and Hast he heard of Studebaker made its last car in when the company moved to Canada from South in 64 and started making cars with Chevy i knew it would my last Call to Studebaker was to cancel on order for but instead of folding i bought out the parts departments of other Sluda Baker 1 have a pretty Good you say Wiysel led the Way through aisle after aisle of Auto parts arranged in he paused at the to a Middle aged it had the Shock of being suddenly surrounded by Lon forgotten heres a Hubcap for a 1934 command he said lifting it out of the bin As gently As if it were i shipped four of these to the other heres one for a 32 i just sold one for probably Cost less than when that car was you the Studebaker business gets better All the Ray Wiysel is ids affection for Studebaker reaches Back a Long his a Blacksmith and car built wagons for the Studebaker company in Ray Wiysel never met his Grandfather but knows All about the wagons through family they were sturdy pulled by eight head of haulers of a teutonic Pride in craftsmanship turned out to be a family Ray inherited it from his a and his Ray set out to become a master Mechan he still remembers his first major Auto Mobile done at age the car was a a 1918 big six touring rays is keeping the family tradition like his father he is a Mechanic without peer and also a Loyal son of he drives a 1963 Studebaker but sparingly it Only has Miles on its he about 10 times what he paid for it he int inclined to there Are about Studebaker owners in the Larry Wiysel they buy buy parts from repair them and sell Only a few Are True believers who buy them and keep them because they like across the Street in the Wiysel show room actually a warehouse Ray a True treads reverently among his own collection of 20 Studebaker cars and this ones a 55 president this is a 50 land id say 50 was stud Bakers 49 and that ones a 62 Gran Purisimo Ive got two of heres a 39 Coupe express pickup Only five or six of these truck makers today boast about their doubt Ewall he pounded a fist defiantly on the Side of the double Wall con in Ray ways cos office hang two one Given him after 20 years As a the other after in recognition of Loyal business Studebaker never really knew How pril 1977 the stars and stripes Page is
