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THE PROVING GROUND'S WOODED CORNER · FOUND, NOT FABLED
The corner: Every car company has folklore; Studebaker's includes a boneyard that turned out to be true. At a remote wooded corner inside the proving ground's oval, the company discarded its worn prototypes — the "Studebaker graveyard" of marque folklore, confirmed when the remains of many prototype cars and a few trucks were found there, most too far gone to move. One was rescued from the practice: a 1947 Champion wood-sided station wagon prototype, which stands in the Studebaker National Museum. The Studebaker section prints the corner at exactly that size — a disposal habit, a folklore name, a physical find, and one survivor — which is more documentation than most industrial legends ever get.
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- The Studebaker section of this history — the proving-ground entry: the discarded prototypes at the wooded corner inside the oval, the found remains of many prototype cars and a few trucks, and the rescued 1947 Champion wood-sided station wagon prototype in the museum.