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    Here is an article our local newspaper "The Western News" did on my wife and her attachment to our 1961 Hawk. They wanted a special interest story for our local car show this past weekend and the club wanted it done on the Hawk! It was a hit at the show, lots of older gentlemen remembering their Studebakers. About a half dozen guys came up and said that the first car they ever went over 100 MPH in was a Hawk. Also had a couple of offers on the car to which I replied that I didn't think they could afford to buy it.
    http://www.thewesternnews.com/articl...ews/news01.txt Our show is very unique, the Friday night cruise is up and down the main street in town where the participants are allowed to hot rod their cars in a very controlled manner, they are allowed to "smokem if they gottem" or just cruise. We generally have around 4,000 spectators watching the cruise which goes on for 3 and a half hours. We had 300 cars show up for the show on Saturday (only 4 Studes) and probably 8,000 to 10,000 people viewing the cars. It was awsome.

    Wayen K.
    Libby, MT
    61 Hawk (On the road, FINALLY)

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    That really sounds like a lot of fun. The "smoke em if you got em" part appeals to me but is only done at the drag strip around here. Less likely to happen a lot of other places since the drag racer that did a burnout during a parade careened into the crowd some months ago and killed 6 people.

    Frank van Doorn
    1962 GT Hawk 4 speed
    1963 Daytona Conv
    1941 Champion R-2 Rod
    Frank van Doorn
    Omaha, Ne.
    1962 GT Hawk 289 4 speed
    1941 Champion streetrod, R-2 Powered, GM 200-4R trans.
    1952 V-8 232 Commander State "Starliner" hardtop OD

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    • #3
      Nice, nostalgic story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

      Andy
      62 GT
      Andy
      62 GT

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      • #4
        It's articles like this that make me smile and make collecting Studebaker very worthwhile. Thanks for sharing it.
        sigpicSee you in the future as I write about our past

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        • #5
          It's articles like this that make me smile and make collecting Studebaker very worthwhile. Thanks for sharing it.
          sigpicSee you in the future as I write about our past

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