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Seeing this car brought back some fond memories. It's a 1951 Studebaker Champion Starlight. Very stylish, don't you think? Sadly, the Studebaker company no longer exists. My father had a 1947 "Studie." The '51 model had pretty much the same configuration in the front and the back - it was the car that "you didn't know if it was coming or going."

Cars today lack individual flavor, and although I can easily identify most of the 1950s automobiles, it's difficult today to distinguish among the modern cars.

I really liked the "art deco" front of this one! It reeks nostalgia for me.

John
 
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Back then, cars had a style to them that you could identify the model from across the parking lot. And the paint colors made those cars stand out too.
Now, you almost have to read the nameplate on the car to know what it is since current cars mostly look the same.
I do like the "art Deco" style of the cars and most items from that timeframe.
 
I had an uncle that owned one of those back in 1952. That was when houses were not air conditioned and neither were cars. You opened the windows, or like my father put a fan on the dash board.
 
My father bought my mother a 64 Lark for her first car.The neighbors thought we were rich! She totaled it 4years later.He bought her used cars after that :-)
 
PALADIN85020 said:
1951_STUDEBAKER-1280_zpsa66c0528.jpg


Seeing this car brought back some fond memories. It's a 1951 Studebaker Champion Starlight. Very stylish, don't you think? Sadly, the Studebaker company no longer exists. My father had a 1947 "Studie." The '51 model had pretty much the same configuration in the front and the back - it was the car that "you didn't know if it was coming or going."

Cars today lack individual flavor, and although I can easily identify most of the 1950s automobiles, it's difficult today to distinguish among the modern cars.

I really liked the "art deco" front of this one! It reeks nostalgia for me.

John
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Built like a tank they were. :)
 
The lady in the first house down the side street had one. Except we called it a Stupidbaker. It really did have plenty of room inside. All the kids in the neighborhood piled in for rides. It wasn't fast, and with her driving it was even slower.
 
Studebaker had some gorgeous cars. Commander, Champion, Hawk, President, Lark and don't forget the sensual Avanti. They were as sexy as anything on the road in the '50s and '60s. Even their pick-ups were beautiful!
 

I well remember the Studebakers from back when I was a kid. They were neat cars, but the only Studebaker I ever drove was a two horse power wagon.:(
 
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I never really liked the Avanti, but some of those Studebaker sedans were gorgeous. Until the Avanti, I never thought of them as a performance car, but we had a plain-looking '63 Lark VIII that went like stink. We mostly drove it to carpool to school, but my stepbrother and I would get it out on a weekend every so often. We outran a lot of cars that were supposed to be faster.
 
1964 Gran Tourisimo Hawk.................in college I worked for a guy who had one.........black with red interior. He let me drive it on occasion, talk about a chick magnet.

When I worked for the Colorado State Forest Service in college out Head Forester's issue truck was a two wheel drive Studebaker, no one ever wanted to drive it.
 
Had a great aunt who had a Golden Hawk with the Packard engine and a straight shift tranny, I wanted that car bad, but never even got to drive it.
She too, tootled around at about 25 MPH most of the time
I've always wondered if some of the designers from Cord went to Studebaker, seems I see a lot of things similar in both cars--anyone know?
olcop
 
In the late '70's I hung out with a bunch of guys with motorcycles and of course we all had cars/trucks too. One guy said that he could tell a lot about a guy by the bike/cage combo, ie Harley/Ford, Kawasaki/Toyota etc. I asked:"What about Ed?" Moto Guzzi/Studebaker?
"Well," he said:"Ed's different."
 
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Fond spot in my heart for Stude's, when I was born in 1951 my dad was working at Studebaker. We left South Bend when I was about 3, I'm still a Studebaker and Notre Dame fan.


Jim in Iowa
 
Studies were popular when i was growing up in in the 30's & 40's. A small 6 cylinder motor & a 3 speed with overdrive, they would get fantastic mileage for the era. Great family cars & first time buyers. My FIL drove them for years. The later ones had a poor front end suspension that was hard to keep in align.
 
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