11 Jan 2014 ..................... I have additions for your Texas list. I grew up halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, but in 1962 when Dad wanted a new Studebaker, he drove 100 miles northeast to Sulphur Springs, where Mom grew up, because the dealers in DFW were so sketchy. We bought a white Lark 4-door with the standard six. The dealer was Wofford Studebaker, and they continued servicing them for a good while after 1966. I'm not sure what eventually happened to them, but the building is gone now. I found out much later from a 1949 newspaper that A.B. Ardis Motor Co., which I knew as a Lincoln, Mercury, Rambler (and for a short time, Edsel) dealer, was selling Studebakers in Sulphur Springs that year. I don't know whether they were selling anything else then, but at that time they should have been able to make a pretty good living just off the bullet-noses. In the late '50s, I saw ads for a Stude dealer named Sloan-Combs in Garland, a Dallas suburb, who was selling something called a Toyopet, the ancestor of those we see everywhere today. The first Packard Hawk I ever saw (in 1968) had come from there. Our minority-religion church had only about 20 families, but there was nearly always at least one other Indianan in the parking lot besides ours. I guess minority worshipers choose minority cars. One was a second-generation Lark from a Stude / Rambler dealer in Sweetwater whose name I can't remember, and the other was a '65 from a diehard dealer in Weatherford whose name also escapes me. For a short while there was a banjo player with a gorgeous copper-colored Silver Hawk that had no dealer name showing. My theory is that, at least in Texas, if the make had maintained consistent, big-league, exclusive dealers in the big cities instead of just blanketing the small towns, the trouble they got into wouldn't have been so bad. In Dallas-Fort Worth, it seems as though each model year was handled by a different dealer. Thanks again. All my best, Bobby Bush Fort Worth, TX