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Standard Motor Products, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend

4 March 1999

The Board of Directors of Standard Motor Products, Inc. Announces a Quarterly Dividend of Eight Cents Per Common Share to Stockholders of Record on March 9, 1999

    NEW YORK, March 3 -- The Board of Directors of Standard Motor
Products, Inc. automotive replacement parts manufacturer and
distributor has approved payment of a quarterly dividend of eight cents per
share on the common stock outstanding.  The dividend will be paid on March 15,
1999 to shareholders of record on March 9, 1999.  A record date of March 3,
1999 was inadvertently announced in a prior release.