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12-24-2009, 07:48 PM

Curbside Classic Dead Brands Week Christmas Edition: 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/curbside-classic-dead-brands-week-christmas-edition-1962-studebaker-gran-turismo-hawk/

Desperate times call for desperate measures; and sometimes the result is nothing short of spectacular. The Studebaker Gran Turismo coupe is gorgeous, despite having been cobbled together on a shoestring in six months. It’s also compromised and imperfect, a car that The Big Three would never have built. It did little to change the inevitable outcome of the Studebaker Death Watch, but then it probably would never have been created under other circumstances. There’s nothing…

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12-25-2009, 06:06 AM

That's a great article about the 62 GT. My father bought a new one in 1962 and I bought my 62 from the original owner in 1975. I was driving my Hawk a few months ago and a guy driving a new Lincoln asked me if I wanted to trade cars as he thought that the old Hawk looked better than his new Lincoln and I believe that he is correct. Bud
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