Studebakers
Aug 26, 2015 16:19:44 #
rrforster12 wrote:
Just a FYI on the Avanti: After the Studebaker/Packard demise a group in Southbend Indiana bought out the Avanti production tooling and facilities and continued to produce the Avanti for several more years. I did not hear anymore about them in later years so I can only assume that they did not make it as a viable company.
Did you know they made a 4 Door Avanti?
Aug 26, 2015 16:20:28 #
The '57 Golden Hawk I said that I tried for years to buy was owned by my 8th grade algebra teacher as a new car. She got stopped by the Missouri Hwy Patrol doing 150 or so, and hubby made her park it in the back shed & he put a GREAT big padlock on the door.
Forty thousand miles or so on it, but it got flat tires & bird poop-covered after 20 years, and they finally retired & took it with them out of state for a retirement project. It ended up selling to a big-bucks collector who poured a small fortune into the restoration, & is showing it now, as I understand.
I couldn't have afforded a restoration that the car really deserved, to do it justice, with my limited funding, anyhow, but I was still heart-broken. Almost another 40 years have gone by, and I still sigh, thinking about the one that got away. That gold gem is probably why I bought a gold VW convert, looking back on it.
Forty thousand miles or so on it, but it got flat tires & bird poop-covered after 20 years, and they finally retired & took it with them out of state for a retirement project. It ended up selling to a big-bucks collector who poured a small fortune into the restoration, & is showing it now, as I understand.
I couldn't have afforded a restoration that the car really deserved, to do it justice, with my limited funding, anyhow, but I was still heart-broken. Almost another 40 years have gone by, and I still sigh, thinking about the one that got away. That gold gem is probably why I bought a gold VW convert, looking back on it.
Aug 26, 2015 21:46:22 #
venturer9 wrote:
Since I saw the Picture of the Studebaker that Blu... (show quote)
Great pics. My first car was a 1957 Golden Hawk. Bought it in 1965 for $150 when I was 15 and couldn't drive it "legally". It was supercharged from the factory and could do 120 mph in 2nd gear overdrive. Fun car.
Aug 27, 2015 10:32:13 #
Ditto to that. I had a 1954 starlight commander when I was in college. About 10 years ago I bought a refurbished 1953 studebaker commander and ended up reselling it a year later at the Studebaker convention for a $3,000 profit. Very recently I posted a photo of it in the picture gallery.
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