This is the building in Norwood Minnesota that was home to the W. W. Good and Sons Studebaker dealership. My family(mother father grandmother uncle etc) were close personal friends with Walter (Walt) Good, the owner. His sons were Walter Jr. (Curley)Russell, (Bill)and Bob. I have a picture of my grandfather in his 1919-21 or something like that Studebaker, but unable to locate the pic now. Growing up, I remember hearing that he, my grandfather, Robert Pieper, always drove Studebakers. My grandfather died young in the early 1930's but his wife, my grandmother Bertha Pieper continued on the tradition.     They owned a hotel-bar-restaurant just one block up the street on US HWY212, which ran in front of the Studebaker building from what we called Goods Garage". I was born in 1950 and early recollections include bullet nose's, Landcruisers and other Studes.   In 1956, my grandmother and my Uncle Bob, who helped my grandmother run the business, bought a new 1956 President 4dr, from Walt Good.   289-3speed/od, WCFB four barrel carburetor, dual exhaust (all presidents had that combo I guess), Motorola radio the two tone Burgandy White color combo.     My father must of been impressed because he sold his 1950 Ford and bought an identical 56 president later that year from Walt.     The difference being the turquoise and white color and a Studebaker branded radio.     Both had clocks.     I may add neither was a classic.     The stories that they told about the performance of those Presidents still stay with me.    My grandmother had a lake cabin about 60-70 miles west of Norwood and she would grab as many grandkids as she could and pile us into the Stude.     That trip never took much more than an hour for some bluegill fishing or just to enjoy the lake.     Anyway, those two Studes that came into my life when I was six years had many happy stories. Some more stories I remember was, one of my older cousins telling many years later about how he borrowed my uncles one night for a date when he was in high school.    Ran into the baddest 1958 Chevy Impala 348 around and blew it away.     My father talking about some guy he worked with and a 57 ford etc. Well as things go, the Studes got older but were not replaced.     Walt Good closed down his dealership around 1960, I think. His son Bill took the garage and sold Phillips 66 gasoline and did general repair. Also Bill (WWII navy vet) took GI bill classes in tv repair and set up a tv shop in the show room. This in my growing years and Bill Good's family and my family had kids about the same ages. We lived about a half a block apart so we were always coming and going. The garage was only about two blocks away so I hung out there with my friends, the Good kids at night when they ran the gas station until it closed. They still had Sstudes around that customers brought in for repair so heard many other stories about the merits of Studebakers and how they were "ahead of the times". In the early 60's, the two Presidents were still in the family. Rust had started in the front fenders around the vents in both of them and but they were still used as second cars to my Uncles 62 Dodge and our 62 Bel Air. My dad used the Stude as his work car after he bought the Chev. Some time around 1965 the transmission on the stude started slipping out of third gear. I was about to get my drivers licence and dad went out and bought a new 66 Dodge Coronet. That gave him the Chevy for work and I had my first car. 1956 Studebaker President, rusty, slipped out off high once in a while, but I had a car to get me to my part time job pumping gas at the 24 hr truck stop outside of town on the new highway 212 bypass. It didn't take long for the Presidents trans not to go into third at all after a few high speed bursts with the wcfb wideopen. Not to worry, second gear and overdrive still got me to work and back and the new Dodge was always in the driveway. I know this is getting long but the story is not over with the two studes---to be continued-- ..... Mike Matern/ SDC Forum , 10 May 2012