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Studebaker ... maybe ?
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Studebaker Legs...er, I mean Lark.
'57+ Studebaker hawk. I hope that grill doesn't melt. I had the pre-hawk Raymond Lowery coupe. I put a 301 mouse in it and went from 30mpg to 10! Hey, I was 18 at the time.
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There's a car in that pic?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait a minute. Look at that glorious beehive blinker glass in the front grille! I've been needing one of those for my Land Rover!
SCORE!!!! Thanks for the legs up! Errrrr heads up!
What car?
Now let's talk ho0d ornament!
Liking that hood ornament!
What car????????????
She needs to get in that car and drive somewhere to get a cheeseburger.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Love the grill and hood ornament...🤪
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Excuse me while I reach in here and find the hood release latch
As a public service Mr. Perfect, I'll be willing to give her a ride.
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When I was a kid, my neighbor down the street had a black 57 Golden Hawk with a gold interior and auto trans on the floor. It came with a supercharger, but he took it off to improve his gas mileage. I went for a couple of rides in it and fell in love with it.
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Location of the turn signal lights makes it a 1959-61 Studebaker Hawk/Silver Hawk, hard to pin it down from just the one picture. Last Golden Hawk was 1958 (Golden Hawks came w/McCullough supercharger).
While you were googling the car I was tracking down the hood ornament cough
Here she is a few years later
Darn Nanuq907, you just ruined a great post!
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Hey she’s doing the “Kardashian Lips” pose.
they were great cars supposed the ones with the blowers were the thing back in the day as for my only encounter back in about 1974 /75 time frame a fellow I worked with had a real nice Studebaker I do not real which model it was about a 1959 all black and really nice I do not remember a lot about the details as to year and model just that is was not one of the top of the line versions but do remember him asking 800.00 he had to sell it his wife decided for him , and so it goes not much has changed . at the time 800.00 was lot for a fellow making a 1.60 a hour and doubt If I would have kept it any way . but would like to have it now
yes the young lady looks nice , but odds are the cars value and performance would have been a better long term choice 😮
Hawk... and looks like high maintenance
Actually, they were fast, pretty reliable and offered a good ride for the money - Studebakers that is.
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Mis-spelled McCulloch, don't know how to edit posts (I used to do proof reading).
Studebaker made the Golden Hawk and the Silver hawk.
All my dad drove when I was a kid was Studebakers, the Hawk was my favorite.
Studebaker was years ahead of everyone else when it came to styling, in the 40s and 50s they had the most aerodynamic cars on the road.
They were used in more than the Golden Hawk yonson. The '57 T-Bird had one available and at least one other mfgr - possibly Kaiser. That blower had one flaw - the 2 speed feature. Power was transmitted through a ball bearing and it would fail. A bearing upgrade became available and it helped some.
cbxjeff, you are correct in that McCulloch superchargers were used in other cars - 1954 Kaiser Manhattans, '57 T-birds and '57-'58 Packard Hawks (basically Studebaker Hawks with some styling changes). All were quite rare and on the T-bird it was a factory option. The blower was standard on all Golden Hawks ('56-'58) - was looking at a mint '57 at a show last week. Did not mean to imply that Stude was the sole user, that blower was around since the '30s.