The 42nd annual Studebaker Swap Meet and Car Show is taking place on Friday June 6 at the St. Joseph County Fairground 5117 S. Ironwood Drive in South Bend.

Attendees view the cars on display at a past "Cars and Coffee" event at the Studebaker National Museum. The 2023 season begins May 13 and continues on the second Saturday of the month through October.

It was like a car and a pickup in one vehicle.” According to Smucker, after the Great Depression, the Packard company had to merge with Studebaker, otherwise it would have been forced out of ...

This appears to be the case with Studebaker, the now revered car company that's garnered more respect in the decades after the era in which it struggled. You're not likely to see one zipping down ...

Studebaker shuttered its South Bend plant in December 1963, ending the production of its cars and trucks in America. But a facility in Hamilton, Ontario, remained in operation until March 1966.

Studebaker ultimately became the largest wagon and carriage maker in the world. The company manufactured electric cars from 1902 to 1911, but it was clear that gasoline cars were the future.

This reality led to what has to be one of the worst mergers in car history when Packard joined forces with Studebaker in 1954. Studebaker had way more dealers across the United States and the deal ...

Back in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, my grandfather bought a series of Studebaker cars: the first being a Land Cruiser (fine car: a 1950, I think) followed by others of increasingly poor quality ...