Empty bay in your garage? - '63 Hawk in SE Indiana to the rescue

[62champ]

Doing the normal weekend surfing and came across this on the Cincinnati CL - not mine so know nothing other than what is posted.

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/4995376946.html

Claims to be original, but wondering why the VIN plate is screwed on...

[EssexExport]

Appears to be in nice shape.

[Jerry Forrester]

Appears to be in nice shape.

Good looking car. Must have a Ford engine. Ad says it's 292 V8. <G>

[Xcalibur]

Yeah, as a matter of fact I am about to have an empty bay... but, been there, done that. I had an R2 SuperHawk optioned identically to one of Granatelli's B'ville cars but for the color. I'm too old to move backwards!

[62champ]

Yeah, as a matter of fact I am about to have an empty bay... but, been there, done that. I had an R2 SuperHawk optioned identically to one of Granatelli's B'ville cars but for the color. I'm too old to move backwards!

Sounds like a good reason to build an R3 Hawk test mule that Studebaker never got around to rolling out of the engineering department...