Photo: Barrett-Jackson
We’re not sure how many of you from the younger generation are familiar with the music signed by the Grateful Dead. The Californian band, founded in 1965, became famous over the years for a music style that blends anything from gospel to rock.
Back in the day when the group of rockers was just starting out, as it usually happens in the music industry, mobility was essential, and poverty was omnipresent. For one thing, the band and its equipment had to move from gig to gig, and any means to do that was in the cards.
As the band’s main supporter in the early days, one of the hippie movement’s main personalities and at the same time renowned clandestine LSD maker, Owsley Stanley, was the one who helped the rockers along with their transportation needs: he gifted them a beat-up 1949 Studebaker M5.
The truck was used by the band to carry both equipment for the concerts and themselves for a number of years, and was often seen parked at their studio in Novato or at their party house in Olympia.
It’s not clear what happened to the truck after it stopped being used by the band, but it was rediscovered in 2012 and somehow it now popped up on the docket of Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction that kicks off at the end of the week.
The Studebaker looks disturbing, and even the official photographs show it in an abandoned state on a road somewhere, heavily eaten by rust. Yet, the psychedelic colors of the 60’s are still adorning its decaying bodywork.
The truck is still fitted with the original 8 cylinder engine and the 4-speed manual transmission, but we’re not told if they still are in working order (chances are they’re not).
The unnamed person or group selling this truck during this week’s sale has not set a starting price for the Studebaker. This “piece of rock and roll history” will go to the highest bidder regardless of sum.
As the band’s main supporter in the early days, one of the hippie movement’s main personalities and at the same time renowned clandestine LSD maker, Owsley Stanley, was the one who helped the rockers along with their transportation needs: he gifted them a beat-up 1949 Studebaker M5.
The truck was used by the band to carry both equipment for the concerts and themselves for a number of years, and was often seen parked at their studio in Novato or at their party house in Olympia.
It’s not clear what happened to the truck after it stopped being used by the band, but it was rediscovered in 2012 and somehow it now popped up on the docket of Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction that kicks off at the end of the week.
The Studebaker looks disturbing, and even the official photographs show it in an abandoned state on a road somewhere, heavily eaten by rust. Yet, the psychedelic colors of the 60’s are still adorning its decaying bodywork.
The truck is still fitted with the original 8 cylinder engine and the 4-speed manual transmission, but we’re not told if they still are in working order (chances are they’re not).
The unnamed person or group selling this truck during this week’s sale has not set a starting price for the Studebaker. This “piece of rock and roll history” will go to the highest bidder regardless of sum.
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