The hat is a running joke with a friend of mine...
Rick is the guy that owns the '56 Transtar. He 'was' a few months behind me in the build curve, and when we first started to hang out at cruise nights and shows, he invariably came in second compared to the yellow pos. As a joke he started this 'anti yellow' campaign on the alt.autos.studebaker newsgroup and started to Photoshop my yellow truck in pink. I have a straw farm hat painted the same yellow, so Rick did me one better and got a pink one with feathers for the Studebaker Florida state meet. My wife, Carrie, wore it, as it is a high bucks Resistol hat and she is a cowboy bull ridin' fan... So when Rick found out bout that, the rest of the pink wardrobe came out. There's a group of T-shirts, and ad's, and a bunch of Pepto-Bismol pink Coupe Express stuff that always shows up at the Stude shows. People think there's a war going on, and Rick and I set back in our chairs and sip a cold one and laugh....
Having fun is what it's all about....
Thanks for the note...
Jeff