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"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."
Studebaker
Restoration A Labor of Love
By Kristopher Hanson, Staff writer
11/28/05 Long Beach, CA Press Telegram
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