Diesel Powered Lark

I received an email from a friend of mine who is into Desoto and
Chrysler products. He told me he visited a Studebaker fan in West
Virginia and most of his collection of cars were orphan brands. He
took my friend into one of his garages where he showed him a 1963 Lark
two door sedan that is black. The man claims Studebaker only made six
such sedans in black. He also claims his Lark is one of only two
produced that are equipped with a Perkins diesel engine and the only
one with a diesel and automatic. My friend said the car was in very
good shape and only has 40K miles on it. The owner did not start it
for him as he said it currently has injector issues.

I wanted to know if any of you are familiar with this collector and
his Lark. I'm in the North Texas SDC and I would like to tell the
club about this Lark at the next club meeting. If I had more
information about the collector and the Lark, it would make the
discussion more interesting.

Thanks,
Richard Yeats
NTSDC

It's real and a very cool piece.... I believe it belongs to Torey
Kirby (spelling could be off). I've been to his place and there are a
LOT of really interesting pieces simply rotting away in poor, outdoor
storage in tall grass.

I saw the Lark at the Martinsburg meet in '06 and it was running and
driving. Really an interesting sound and it just clicked 'em off nice
and smooth. I think it would be a really cool example to have around.


Other than that, I cannot tell you much about the car.




On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:02:34 -0700 (PDT), jem0mej.RemoveThis@msn.com wrote:
>I received an email from a friend of mine who is into Desoto and
>Chrysler products. He told me he visited a Studebaker fan in West
>Virginia and most of his collection of cars were orphan brands. He
>took my friend into one of his garages where he showed him a 1963 Lark
>two door sedan that is black. The man claims Studebaker only made six
>such sedans in black. He also claims his Lark is one of only two
>produced that are equipped with a Perkins diesel engine and the only
>one with a diesel and automatic. My friend said the car was in very
>good shape and only has 40K miles on it. The owner did not start it
>for him as he said it currently has injector issues.
>
>I wanted to know if any of you are familiar with this collector and
>his Lark. I'm in the North Texas SDC and I would like to tell the
>club about this Lark at the next club meeting. If I had more
>information about the collector and the Lark, it would make the
>discussion more interesting.
>
>Thanks,
>Richard Yeats
>NTSDC

Lee DeLaBarre
Daytona62