My paternal grandfather was chief electrician at the Studebaker plant in the city of my birth, South Bend. He worked there his entire career from age 19 until retirement. His wife, my grandmother, was a descendant of Clement Studebaker, one of the brothers who founded the company that became the car maker (which makes me a descendant, too). Plus, the car I learned to drive in was our beautiful red and white 1956 Power Hawk. Needless to say, I loved this presentation! I hope to get back to my home town some day to tour the museum. That will be a thrill!

My brother had a 1957 Golden Hawk with the supercharged 289. It was all gold, no different color on the side by the rear fins. Even with the 2 speed automatic and those terrible, bias ply tires that thing was fast! He surprised a lot of muscle cars in the 60's. How I'd love to have it or one like it today. A lot of people don't like that big grill but I loved it.

I have visited the museum some 20 years ago. Loved it. My first Stude was a '53 Champion I bought from my best friend in 1963. About a year later I bought a beautiful '54 Commander hard top painted with Cadillac fire mist green from a NY Parkway Cop for 175 dollars. Used to get pulled over by the police just to admire it. Unfortunately a large boulder 'jumped' in front of me ending our relationship. In 1969 I traded my Green 1967 Comet for a 1964 Red 4 speed Hawk Grand Tourismo plus 700 dollars from the owner. Had it for 23 years before being forced to sell here in Denver. I thought they were the coolest cars on the planet! Hoped you liked my story.

These collectors are great. A Commander was the 1st car I drove, mid 50s, attended a convention in 1979/80 in Long Beach, Ca, and was AMAZED.

Great talk, thanks. I had a 1956 Flight Hawk that was restored from the ground-up. Now in the LeMay- Americas Car Museum - Tacoma, WA.

Great presentation. I am educated in Hawks.

my dad had a starlight coup K body. He also had Speedster, he had 9 Studies.

A family at my small VA high school in the late 70's had two immaculate Hawks and another had an Avanti. We had a '56 Olds at the time, so I knew how different for the time the Hawks were.

I have a 57 and 59 silver and golden, I love the hawks, brothers got dad's 55 speedster 3 spd overdrive, lots of extra chrome if anyone out there needs some.

Good show . Studebaker Kary NH .

I just bought a 63 GT Hawk. It has bumperettes. I noticed the picture in this presentation showed a 64 with them as well. I wonder if they came back for the late 63 model cars? It could be that I have the wrong bumper on this car.

My favorite Studebaker. I owned a gorgeous Jet Green 64. The planned 65 restyle should have been included. A small photo is seen in the beginning.

Studebaker y Packard, quisieron fusionarse con Hudson y Nash. Pero Hudson y Nash, formaron AMC, y dejaron a Studebaker-Packard a su suerte!😥 Saludos desde Argentina.

Stop the music in the background, as it drowns out the speech that is explaining details about the Car!!!!!!!!

When year was the last pickups made ?

What is the color of the car in the thumbnail...

Certainly a distinctive look and styling. Why didn’t these things matter?

We're now into the 4th year of the Pandemic with no end in sight and no hope at all.

Great presentation, content wise!!! From a presentation standpoint, next time please select a presenter who doesn’t speak so fast. An experienced director would have instructed this person to slow down. The effect of a fast speaker is exacerbated when the person cannot be seen. So many words are unintelligible- and anyone wanting to comment about my hearing, I hear just fine, Also, the mic should be on the person and not recorded from an amplified speaker source. A lot of effort goes into a presentation like this and a few minor adjustments would make this much more pleasurable.

Didn’t they make trucks in Canada awille after closing U.S. plants ?

Boring , too long , 30 minutes was enough for the information.

Stop the music in the background, as it drowns out the speech that is explaining details about the Car!!!!!!!!

Stop the music in the background, as it drowns out the speech that is explaining details about the Car!!!!!!!!

Stop the music in the background, as it drowns out the speech that is explaining details about the Car!!!!!!!!