Ocean Bay, Massachusetts-Rhode Island Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club

With April comes spring showers the saying goes and that was the case with Ocean Bay’s Annual Spring Kick-Off Dinner and Auction but it did not stop members from coming. Although there were not too many Studebakers that day, we did have a great showing of members and a lot of great automotive stuff for the auction. The only thing that was missing was George Manoogian Ocean Bay’s resident auctioneer! George who never misses a Spring Kick-Off was vacationing in Florida; this left us without an auctioneer! Without anyone volunteering to be the auctioneer it left me no other option but to try to step into George’s shoes! Yup old marble mouth me as an auctioneer! Well I guess I did okay since we brought in the most revenue we have seen in a number of years at the Spring Kick-Off Auction, $415.00. Not bad for a marble mouth auctioneer but I can’t take credit for the success! This year we had a great amount of good automobile material to auction off. I would personally like to thank all our members who were responsible for bringing so many great parts. I would also like to thank Dave Thibeault for being the auctioneer’s assistant as parts runner and Janet Thibeault for being the auction scribe and of course I would like to thank all the members that made this auction such a success.

About a month or so ago while browsing one of the many automotive news websites I visit daily I came across a photo of a 51 Studebaker parked on the side of the road in this perfect little 1950s town. After looking at the photo quickly I thought this must be a movie set or something so I clicked on the link to read more about it and was surprised to find out that these where just diecast cars and scale models of buildings. After looking at some of the other photos I was really impressed and clicked on the link to the person’s Flickr site where I found hundreds more. I must have spent an hour looking through them never once noticing the photographer’s name. After I was finished I forwarded the link to my father to check out. A short time later my father called me and asked where I came across this Michael Paul Smith site, that’s pretty neat? Michael Paul Smith, WOW I guess I am embarrassed to say I never look at the name because i was too busy looking at the photos!