Gang war with a Studebaker

[Dave Mellor NJ]

Helped by an A

 

[old31]

Those are all Ford salesmen showing the Studebaker driver that he made a mistake by not buying a Ford!

 

[47topless]

Love those Studebaker grills.

 

[Keith True]

Be interesting to know the context of that picture.Is that Studebaker from the prohibition years,or is it post prohibition? Was it taken at the scene of a strike,or shutdown?

 

[A Model A]

"One dead, fifteen wounded in strike clash. Photograph shows armed deputy sheriffs attacking a crowd of pickets at the Spang-Chalfant Seamless Tube Company plant, near Pittsburgh. 1933"

https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a38471/

It's a 68C.

 

[nkaminar]

Why? What were the picketers doing to provoke such response? If my history serves me, this was common in the 30's. But that does not answer the question.

Getting back to cars: Certain high end models of Studebakers are considered full "classic" cars of the late 1920's and early 1930's, along with Packard, Cadillac, etc.

During the depression, rich people stopped buying expensive cars because they did not want to flaunt their wealth when so many people were having a hard time.