Last year, while going to work one day, I noticed a local hotel was hosting a Studebaker convention, of sorts. I don’t know the details, I just know the parking lot was full of cars and trucks from almost all years of Studebakers. While I spent some time walking through the parking lot, I found a few models and years that piqued my interest. Later, I did some web searching and found the following years and models that I’d be interesting in owning:
- 1962 GT Hawk
- 1956 Sky Hawk
- 1953 Commander Starliner
- 1955 Speedster
Amazing enough, some of the early 50’s design, comes through in the later early 60’s design. I can’t say for sure which model I really like best. Of the four above, I could only pick a favorite if they were all parked next to each other. I think the ’62 GT Hawk would probably be my first choice and then it would go down from there.
I’d want to of course drop a modern fuel-efficient, high horsepower V8 into it . Maybe some interior upgrades for instrumentation, and a good coat of paint. The thing that really turns me on about these, is that the bodylines and styling bring back memories of the early spy days, the James Bond, The Saint, and even Get Smart days. And even most recently, in Pixar’s film The Incredibles, it harkens to the early car Mr. Incredible drives at the beginning of the movie.
I really think this could be a head turner, if I could only find one.
Asa Jay
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