Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The car Studebaker should have built

 









28 comments:

  1. That is otherworldly. Those intakes, the blending of the original style with new, the hatch, the wood. All of it.

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  2. Truly amazing.
    Tree Mike

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  3. Tres chic - very cool indeed. Lookit all the leg room in the front seat. Shotgun !

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  4. Please,Please,Please C.W..... Don't leave us hanging. What's the back story on this beauty? Talk about a work of art!!!

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  5. WoW! I am knocked.the.fuk.right.out.

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  6. When cars were cars. Nothin cookie cutter about it!

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  7. I've never seen anything like that. What a beauty. My aunt and uncle always drove Studies and I thought they were the ugliest things ever. If they'd have had one of these I'd have been hooked on 'em.

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  8. My eyes are hurting trying to count the plug and coil leads. Looks like a V-8 but three leads on right side?

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    1. 2nd from top left goes to left bank.

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  9. Looks like a V-6 with three leads going to each side.

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    1. Four. Look closer on nearer side.

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    2. Sorry, I count three in each direction and six on the distributor cap.

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    3. Sorry again, there are four. I missed that one sort of hidden.

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  10. Love Studebakers. We had some in the fifties. The '54 station wagon was very stylish, maybe not in the Nomad class but still nice.

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  11. I'd never tire of looking at that, wonderful workmanship.

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  12. Beautifully done, love the crouching lines.

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  13. With the tints in the wood and that color green, the car calls for a hot redhead to occupy the passenger seat.

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  14. Their slogan was "Better than it has to be".

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  15. I want to hear a recording of it running. With those intake horns...

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  16. Here's the story on the car.... https://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/07/1951-studebaker-fastback-woody-sema-2013/

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  17. Wouldn't it look great heading for the lake pulling a vintage Chris-Craft ski boat behind it?

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  18. WOW !!!!!!!!!! What a cool car !!!!!!!! would love to see it tooling down the road, or diving it !

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  19. All that glorious wood, real wood not the fake stuff used later on.

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  20. Would it be possible to mass produce cars shaped like this today? Old designs with modern tech are the stuff of dreams.
    I recently saw a full restomod power wagon and it was one of the prettiest things I’ve seen in awhile, and I don’t consider myself a truck guy. Someone really needs to revisit the past, do it right, and mass produce it.

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  21. If Chris-Craft built a car....

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  22. They always look better in the crate.

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  23. My God, look at that wood. What a gorgeous build.

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