1929 studebaker car. Browse our inventory now. Packard soon folded thereafter. Today studebaker is fondly remembered for the curvy sweeping designs of the starlight champion and commander models of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Used 1929 studebaker values select a 1929 studebaker model below to get used trade in values and retail prices. The studebaker commander is the model name of several automobiles produced by the studebaker corporation of south bend indiana. Similarly we have this 1929 studebaker commander dual cowl phaeton.
But its that 1929 studebaker house car you ask about that may well be the first self contained motor home ever built. According to the auction catalog it was the only dual cowl phaeton ever built. Even after a slowdown in the 1970s due to the gas crisis many motor homes were built and they average about 50000 a year in sales nowadays.
The owner paul lauver told me he had purchased a new long wheelbase studebaker sedan but lost the original body due to an electrical fire. Studebaker continued to manufacture other diversified products after automobile. The company manufactured a variety of cars wagons and military vehicles.
And that may well be true but it appears not to have been built in the time period when the car originally left the factory and not by the manufacturer at all. In 1976 a similar 1929 studebaker house car was auctioned in lohrville iowa. The conversion was done in omaha nebraska.
Studebaker merged with luxury automaker packard in the late 1950s.