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On the road from St. Louis to New Hampshire
Funny story, I wanted to drive it and Grandma had a fit. She was going to take the car back if I didn't trailer it!! You can see who won that battle.
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1961 Flamingo Studebaker Hawk
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Mark beat me to it--I really love that color. That's a great looking car!
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'Looking good, Ross; very pretty. (Did your 1962 Pace Car mailer arrive?) BPWe've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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Nice car, it won't get lost in the parking lot! The car brings back memories both of the color and of the car. My first set of "hand-me-down" wheels from the parents was their 61 Hawk when I started driving in 1965. The had just gotten a 64 Impala 2 dr hardtop, black with black interior. The Hawk was white with a black stripe and black interior with buckets. Motor was a 289 2 barrel with the automatic. During the time I drove it, I went to the local junkyard and got a 4 barrel manifold, crab and air cleaner. I had some good times with the car until April 1966 when I got a 64 Black Avanti R1 with red and fawn interior and air. The color brought back memories of a 55 Commander 4 door sedan my parents had. The car was that color with a black top. I didn't know the color then, being raised on the farm, I called the color "Bloody milk red". That car became my older brother's " "hand-me-down" set of wheels when my parents bought the 61 Hawk ,until he bought a 60 Lark convertible, black with red interior.sigpic[SIGPIC]
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For the first time in more than 30 years, all the gauges in the dash work. The fuel gauge was broken, I bought a very nice restored one from Brent Hagen. And the Tach was missing the sending unit when I got the car, so I have put in a classics instruments Tach (Model HR60SLF) as a place holder until I get the stock one updated to modern electronics.
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1961 Flamingo Studebaker Hawk
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