This is Ed Ellis' finished project!
A '58 NAPCO Studebaker
     There were a total of 54 Napco equipped Studebaker 4x4s in 1958, out of the 54, 11 were deluxe cabs on a 122" wheelbase. The deluxe cabs were equipped with a left armrest, an ashtray, a map light, dual sunvisors, foam rubber seats, a chrome hood name plate, "deluxe"  door  script, dual chrome/ stainless mirrors, chrome exterior door visors, and chrome parking lights, dual sun visors, and a perforated card board headliner.  Additional options were  turn  signals,  heater/ defroster,  electric wipers and oil filter. 
     Power is supplied by a Studebaker built heavy duty truck over head valve 259 cu in v8 engine which featured among other things solid lifters, an aluminum timing gear, heavy duty springs and valves, roto-caps for the exhaust valves, chrome rings [top] and trimetal rod and main bearings. Transmission is a factory supplied  Borg Warner 4 spd..  Differential ratios are 4.88,  the Spicer 23 transfer case and the front differential were purchased from Napco and installed on the production line on 2/24/58. 
      It was originally shipped to Provo,  Utah and was used by a 
petroleum "land man" who looked for promising locations for "wildcat wells" and then negotiated drilling rights with the property owner. it was later sold to a guy in colorado who used it around his ranch in colorado and who later sold it to me. When I bought the truck in 1995 it was rust free but very beat up [especially the frame] as you might imagine. This fall I am going to try for my "senior" trophy at Hershey and then after that the truck will be shown in the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend Indiana.