PRIZED PINEHURST
Dale Truitt can laugh about it now. A couple years ago, the Commerce, Texas, resident took his stunning 1956 Studebaker Pinehurst station wagon to a national Studebaker meet and had it judged for points by experts in the marque. They looked hard to find any flaws.
“I was within 1 or 2 points of being the very highest score you can get,” recalls Truitt. “The note that the judges left on the evaluation sheet was ‘over-restored’ [laughs]. In other words, underneath looks just as good as the top and just as good as everything else. All the colors are correct. Everything is just very nice.
“It’s just kind of an amazing car.”
Truitt is genuinely humble about the beautiful blue-and-white wagon — it takes some prying for him to open up about the spectacular level to which his Pinehurst was restored. He’ll accept compliments with an “aw shucks,” but he’s well aware there might not be a nicer Pinehurst wagon on the globe. They were rare to begin with; only 1522 of the stylish two-door wagons
