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Karps TA
09-15-2010, 07:31 PM
I was behind this bronze colored Studebaker license plate 60 HAWK on the way home from work on 124th and say North Ave. Had fatter tires, old school mag wheel, looked like air shocks in the back and sounded great. Weird, but very cool in a weird way. Not often you see a car with fins jacked up and sounding like that.

Anyone ever see this thing?
WickedSix
09-15-2010, 08:39 PM
what years? hawk? Avanti?

Friend has a gold hawk running around west tosa
Prince Valiant
09-15-2010, 09:36 PM
oh yeah...the golden hawk's could be had with a 289 supercharged v8 and were among the top performing cars of it's time.

Studebaker's, though arguably homely looking cars, were always strong performers...I made a point in another thread a while back ago on how they were the first to shove a v8 under the hood of a compact auto w/ the lark...and configured as such, it was a very strong performer...keeping pace with many of the big v8 cars including the 300F of the era (late 50's)...whereas a strong performing compact back then was 0-60 in under 11 seconds, these were high 7's....
TheRX7Project
09-15-2010, 10:05 PM
Studebaker was always ahead of it's time, which was ultimately it's downfall. They were making "muscle cars" before the muscle car era... and making economical cars before the gas crunch when everyone wanted big motors and deluxe interiors.
jbiscuit
09-16-2010, 11:58 AM
some of the most god awful looking cars ever built too! ICK
Karps TA
09-16-2010, 03:10 PM
what years? hawk? Avanti?

Friend has a gold hawk running around west tosa


Hell if I know. :rolf Not exactly a car I know anything about. But based on that reply I'd say that was it.

Kinda cool IMO. Different.
GRNDNL
09-16-2010, 03:37 PM
http://www.americantorque.com/page/0/151/
TraceDaddy
09-17-2010, 07:16 AM
Seems to me I saw that at the Tichigan car show.
Prince Valiant
09-17-2010, 08:44 AM
some of the most god awful looking cars ever built too! ICK
In their original form with gawdy chrome, etc, I agree...very hard on the eye's. There have been one or two I've seen where it's dechromed, updated looks that have looked sharp.

Of course, always a fan of the starliner's look (custom or stock):

http://image.automotive.com/f/images/9832510+pheader/0211cr_01_z+1953_studebaker_coupe+chippewa_green_r oof.jpg