Other/Uncategorized studebaker meets industar 50

[paulfish4570]

photos rezized and replaced. see post below:

 

[charjohncarter]

'62 ?????????????? Those were really great looking. Nice photos.

 

[paulfish4570]

thanks. i don't know the model. i'd never seen one, though, with the gran tourismo marque. is that factory?

 

[kuzano]

Introduced in 1962...

Introduced in 1962...

The Studebaker Gran Turismo was introduced in 1962 and ran a couple of years. (The Avanti came out in 63). Styling was done by a fellow named Brook Stevens. Nice images.

 

[paulfish4570]

thank you much ...

 

[remegius]

The Avanti came out in 63.

My father bought an Avanti new in '63. I drove it for many years. Had a Paxton blower under the hood and went pretty well. Raymond Loewy designed the Avanti, and I wish that I still had it.

Cheers...

Rem

 

[paulfish4570]

no kidding, rem ...

 

[OMboy]

Hello, me again.

No photos here either...damn PhotoBuffet - what a waste of time they are.

 

[paulfish4570]

i had resized images. move 'em again shortly:

 

[oftheherd]

I can remember in the late mid-40s when I was just a tyke, and the popular myth about Studebaker was that you could drive them in either direction, from the front or back; two sets of steering and pedals. Not by the Gran Tourismo's time of course.

I must be getting old. Is it raining or is that just drool? 😀 😀

 

[remegius]

I can remember in the late mid-40s when I was just a tyke, and the popular myth about Studebaker was that you could drive them in either direction, from the front or back; two sets of steering and pedals. Not by the Gran Tourismo's time of course.

They were kind of push-me-pull-you looking, weren't they. One of their earlier models was called the "Dictator". They had to abandon that name when the war came along.

Cheers...

Rem

 

[Richard G]

Beautiful - calls to mind the Buick Riviera, crossed with that iconic French coupe the Facel Vega.

 

[Leigh Youdale]

Beautiful - calls to mind the Buick Riviera, crossed with that iconic French coupe the Facel Vega.

Speaking of France made me think of these, taken in Paris last summer.

 

[paulfish4570]

wow, wow, wow. going to an indy car race this weekend, with a paddock pass. hope to get close enough ...