1960 Studebaker Lark

[Uncle Wig]

DeusxMac wrote:
That Studebaker looks clean, but it wasn't "cool looking" when it was new, and it still isn't.

Here, IMHO, are the cool looking later model Studebakers:

Actually, your first photo shows a '53. Seven years older than that Lark! They used that same basic body shell all the way through 1964 as the Hawk and GT Hawk, which somehow managed to remain very good-looking. Mainly new roof, hood and trunk panels, and fins of course. Stude's design team did heroic work on a miniscule budget. Developing the Avanti, it's said they designed the whole car with the budget GM would have spent on a door handle.

'58 Golden Hawk:


'64 GT Hawk:

[cbelt3]

A bear in his natural habitat. A Studebaker.

[NewtonMP2100]

....what about the '64 Buick Skylark!....??

.....w/ positraction?

[DeusxMac]

Uncle Wig wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
That Studebaker looks clean, but it wasn't "cool looking" when it was new, and it still isn't.

Here, IMHO, are the cool looking later model Studebakers:

Actually, your first photo shows a '53. Seven years older than that Lark! They used that same basic body shell all the way through 1964 as the Hawk and GT Hawk, which somehow managed to remain very good-looking. Mainly new roof, hood and trunk panels, and fins of course. Stude's design team did heroic work on a miniscule budget. Developing the Avanti, it's said they designed the whole car with the budget GM would have spent on a door handle.
I should have clarified.
By "later model Studebakers" I didn't mean later than the 1960 Lark, I meant later in their 105 year history; as opposed to "cool looking" models from the 20s, 30s and 40s.
The company went under in 1967, so 50s and "60s" models came from Studebaker's final years.

[rexs]

A friend of mine had a Hawk with the 352 engine and slicks.
He stopped in the middle of the block and said watch this. Squealing tires, burning rubber, smoke filled interior and a black marks on the road that were still there months later when I went back to visit.

[Dennis S]

My neighbor had a Golden Hawk and then a few blocks on down, a doctor had an Avanti.

[richorlin]

Ombligo wrote:
I'm a bit more enamored with this 1966 Jaguar XKE Series 1 OTS

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-jaguar-ots-2/

The trunk is big enough to hold that fulltime mechanic...

[Don C]

When our '56 Studebaker President was destroyed when hit from behind we got a '59 Lark (light blue) and later added a '62 Lark (green with A/C). I learned to drive in those cars. Family of five drove from Illinois to Colorado a couple of times in them. I think there might have been two arrangements of the bags in the trunk.

Rust, age, and lack of a dealer finally moved Dad to Buicks.

[lost in space]

My favorite Studebaker pic. Seems to capture a sort of sweetness of the 50s.