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Subject: Re: Studebaker Author: sam [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:04:39 05/16/12 Wed In reply to: Bugg 's message, "Studebaker" on 01:11:06 05/16/12 Wed >Wes: > >The Loewy-designed Starlight/Starliner coupes came out >in '53, not '52. The Starliners were the pillared >coupes, the Starlight was the hardtop. I have one of >each, but mine are both '54s. :) > >Bugg I think in '52 the Starlights still had the bullet front. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Studebaker Author: Bob [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:55:53 05/17/12 Thu IMHO, nothing before or since can beat the styling found on the Avanti I. It was their "swan song" but, what an incredible way to go out. Bob [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Studebaker Author: K Pelle [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:02:31 05/17/12 Thu >IMHO, nothing before or since can beat the styling >found on the Avanti I. It was their "swan song" but, >what an incredible way to go out. > >Bob I was working in Calgary when the Avanti came out and the dealer had a 'slightly' used one for sale. A friend of mine (His father was another car dealer) talked the Studebaker dealer into letting us take it for a test drive at the local car club. Both Ken and I had cars that had been 'souped up,' for 'street legal' drags at the local drag-race track on the weekends. In the quarter-mile we could each beat that Avanti, but it just blew the doors off both our cars in a standing mile. Neither one of us had the guts to hold the pedal to the metal on a longer run. I recall packing it in when the needle read 120 and there was still throttle left to go, but we only had 2 1/2 miles of closed road and I wanted to be sure I could stop. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Studebaker Author: bytemangler [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:56:09 06/03/12 Sun Drove one of those 52 or 53 Studebakers a few times - a delight to drive. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]