Auto Transport Trucks

Haven't seen any of those in ages and almost forgot they existed. Let's imagine that vacant space just unloaded one of these:

A '64 Lark Daytona. You wouldn't find this amount of luxury in any Nova, Falcon or Valiant:



A blown wagon was also available:

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/collectible-classic-1963-1966-studebaker-lark-wagonaire/

Advertisements pitched the Wagonaire as “three cars in one.” It could function as a work wagon, a family sedan, and — with the top rolled forward — a convertible. Properly equipped, the Wagonaire boasted a fourth personality: muscle car. The standard 170-cubic-inch in-line six was nothing special, but 259- and 289-cubic-inch V-8s were options. If that wasn’t enough to wet your whistle, you could opt for one of two high-performance engines originally designed for the new Avanti sport coupe. The R1, a high-compression 289 V-8, produced
240 hp; the R2 added a Paxton supercharger and cranked out somewhere between 280 and 300 hp. Better yet, either engine could be ordered with a high-performance package that added a rear antiroll bar, a limited-slip differential, and firmer springs and dampers.
Only fifteen R2 Wagonaires were built in 1963, two of them with the full hi-po package. Malcolm Berry’s 1963 Daytona Wagonaire, pictured here, wasn’t one of them, but it is R2-powered. Berry bought the car in 1969 and shortly thereafter salvaged an original supercharged 289 V-8 from a wrecked R2 Lark. For the next few years, Berry and a partner actively drag-raced the supercharged station wagon, but a decade later, Berry felt the itch to transform the car into his ideal touring wagon. The transformation wasn’t that intensive — the stock three-speed automatic was ditched in favor of a Tremec five-speed manual...

 

Man that's cool.
I like the old Mail Pouch tobacco sign on the building too.

 

I just saw one of these sedans going the other way today! 4-door, kind of a light green, absolutely gorgeous.