(11/29/05)

The following article is from the 11/28/05 Long Beach, CA Press Telegram

STUDEBAKER RESTORATION A LABOR OF LOVE

By Kristopher Hanson, Staff writer

LONG BEACH - Hands covered in a black mixture of grease, grime and oil, Bill Oliver emerges from the bowels of a fading blue station wagon, wipes his brow and scans over his latest automotive project a 1960 Studebaker Lark VIII.

"This may all look like a lot of junk, but it's not," Oliver said on a recent autumn morning outside his West Long Beach shop, Studebaker Parts and Service. "It's precious."

At 74, Oliver is one of the nation's premier Studebaker restoration experts focusing his mechanical expertise solely on a long-defunct car manufacturer that once punched out moderately popular models like the Commander, Champion and Hawk series. (more follows)

To read the complete story on the newspaper's website, CLICK HERE!

Webmaster note: Sometimes a media's web policy does not allow their material to be reproduced on other websites, but they do allow us to post a link to their web articles as was done above. Clicking the links above will open the article in a separate window that can be simply closed when you're done reading the article.