SOUTH BEND INDIANA STUDEBAKER MUSEUM

We're driving our '60 Lark Wagon from Costa Rica to the US this summer. We are landing in San Diego and then driving across the country to the east coast. We WILL be making a pilgramage stop at this museum now! Whoo-ee!

i see all of them in the school felltrip i think about 2003 or 2004 next time i taking a camara and i going to take pcrictes of them and put all in in 1 video with music. Idk when i do it

Nothing wrong with the styling of any Hawk of the 60's,..but that isn't why they tanked.

haha indiana is better

Too bad that after about 1960, the styling went downhill except for the Avanti, I'd love to own any of the wraparound rear window models of the early 50's

The "wraparound" back glass you're referring to is called the "starlight coupe" and was built between model years 47-52. The 50-51's were the only 2 years they used the 'bullet-nose' front-end. I agree with the comment above their styling had nothing to do with their demise, which was caused by horrendously bad mismanagement. Books have been written about it.

The mismanagement dated back decades paying dividends out of cash reserves, etc, but the final death-spiral probably dates to the premature introduction of all-new (first by far with a post-war car) designs in early 1946 when they would have had no trouble selling carry-over models through 1949, saving retooling costs. Then there was the post-war economy: yes, the UAW went on strike, but they had sacrificed so much to keep defense production on track. They sure made good-looking coupes, though!

You're exactly right Winston; few people know about Erskine's paying dividends out of cash reserves. His other colossal mistakes were his purchase of Pierce-Arrow in 1928 and launching of a couple of looser models; the "Erskine" and the "Rockne". As you probably know, these mistakes resulted in his resignation and suicide.