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WOW!!!! I was hoping for more cars and/or car parts, but still a fascinating tour.

Thanks for sharing!!!

Awesome, Motts! Awesome!

The two white upside down cups crack me up!

Thank you once again Motts for a really great set ~ you'd never be able to tell from these pictures how "undercover" and hurried you must have been. This set was beautiful to see!

Aww cute they have hats.
Very cool gallery :) Thanks for sharing your always lovely work.

Thanks, Motts!! Great gallery! Being an old car buff, I would have loved to be there...

one of your best, really facinating building. Looks huge

thank you for another great gallery.

I love this shot, especially how the bricks fade in and out, and the machine arms outstretched...very nice!

Great gallery, as always!

FFS, this building was freaking huge.

Great album as always, i hope well se more of you adventures/explorations soon!

My second time through this gallery, wonderful as always Mr. Motts, right up there with the boat graveyard pics!!!!! (just viewed the Danvers Demise pics on the forum) this gallery cheered me up!!! Thank you!! - Ed from Oregon

Those white plastic cups are to keep dirt from getting inside the gearbox through the hole where the shift lever used to be.
These engines all look like they were pulled from service; what with the cut radiator hoses, driveshafts still attached and the widely varying degress of rust and dirt and external wear.

They look like some sort of robotic animals

For anyone interested in oid car factories there is a great thread on Detroit auto factories at http://atdetroit.net/f...essages/5/38415.html make iure to chech the archives as this thread has over 1000 posts with great information and photos. Enjoy

looks like some futuristic bunch of robots facing off to do battle!!!

As I look at these engines again I agree with Bill F. These were pulled from service. Motts, was the last business in here rehabbing old motors?

Found all the photos on this page haunting. I can almost hear the voices of the workers and the machinery operating. The value now, and for future generations? PRICELESS!!!!

just the u joints on the drive shafts run 20 to 50 bucks each. see the little 2 bolt plate on the ends? I had to make one as I could not buy one. and here there are 100s of them. wow , I would have paid 50 bucks for one of those little plates.

great stuff motts, thanks for the tour. :)

Yet another fine gallery, Mr Motts. Thank you again for all your effort!

Thank you.

Sure would like to get my hands on some of those engines. For those not in the know, they're Multifuels out of military trucks. Now, where to I sign up to get some?

Thank you

Boy I sure like to have a few of those trans to sell.I know people who need them for their M.35s

I also saw these engines a few years ago, but unfortunately only through a gap in a door. I was told this building was the Studebaker Foundry. Studebaker cast their own engine blocks. I have some original 8x10 glossy shots taken inside this building in the 50s showing the process. I do know that my Mom worked in the foundry, for one day. About a year before she died I asked how she came to leave Studebaker after the war. Remember that there were many women filling in at our factories all over the country while the men were in the service. As men returned to civilian life, they were given their old jobs back at Studebaker, and the women, who had lower seniority like Mom, were "bumped" to the "extra" pools. Mom was forced out of her desirable job at the Chipewa Ave plant and took an available job in the foundry. One day was enough. She told her forman she would NOT work there. I think that was when she left. They built a house and had me, then sister. Dad stayed till it closed, December, 1963.

Wouldn't it be cool to make some sort of huge and rusty monster machine with dozens of those engines... Kind of mad max meets wild wild west.... Awesome!!! Somebody do it before oil runs out pleeeease... well, it could finally run on biodiesel, I guess. :s

they appear to be salvaged military 2 1/2 ton truck engines, these trucks are still in service, built by studebaker, hupmobile, white,and contenental to mil. spec.

They look as if they're reaching their "hands" out to each other. Thanks for a visually inspiring tour!

Thanks for the pix that I couldn`t take.....The new Studebaker Museum is on Chapin st.now.....Alot of homeless people and scrappers used to live in these buildings.A couple were killed over scrap metal.By the way ...Anyone check out the old Union Station....A friend used to sneak in there ,Before the restaurant was put in ,and there were old cars in the basement....TheMain floor had a hole in it and some concrete was lying on them.....Not sure if they got them out or not before they revamped it for the restaurant.??????

The eye of the artist...what an incredible picture.

Thats awesome. Can you go back and build me a 53 Starliner?

I just wanted to say thank you for posting these!
My family history IS Studebaker. Great great great grandfather and uncles. I've done a lot of family research but actually getting to see into a plant once used is something I never could have found without your amazing photography. So thank you again!

Motts: I have a dumb question. were these engines in the stamping plant or the foundry? Also, did you all know that all of the factory buildings were connected with underground tunnels? I got the privlage of touring the foundry recently and it's AMAZING! The tunnels are a bit musty and a few mice, but totally worth it. Dude you need to go back!

Motts: Forgot to add. If these engines were in the foundry, They are sadly gone now. Some sold and the rest moved to bldg. 84.

Thanks Motts! Happy I got to see the pics. It makes me so sad when places you have shot are demolished.

Great job you and your team did.

Wonderful set. Thank you so much. :)

this place is awesome