Chris' other Eye Candy 4/5 '63 Lark

[Chris_Dresbach]

Chris Dresbach

1940 Champion two door.
Parts of the 1952 Model N
1960s Prototype cart

[silverhawk]

Nice! Looks like it has '62 Daytona trim on it to; what do you think guys?

Dylan Wills
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'61 lark deluxe 4 door wagon

[Chris_Dresbach]

Yes, it is. '62 Dayton trim on a '63.



Chris Dresbach

1940 Champion two door.
Parts of the 1952 Model N
1960s Prototype cart

[candbstudebakers]

It looks like Richard Poe's car...

Candbstudebakers
Castro Valley,
California

[JRoberts]

No matter the year of the trim, you can't get prettier than that.

Joe Roberts
'61 R1 Champ
'65 Cruiser
Editor of "The Down Easterner"
Eastern North Carolina Chapter

[mbstude]

The trim is correct for a '63 Custom. And like Bob said, that's Richard Poe's fire breathing R1.

[silverhawk]

Ah, ok! I forgot about that, thanks Matt!

Dylan Wills
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'61 lark deluxe 4 door wagon

[Bill Pressler]

A '63 Custom two-door sedan, IMHO, is the best-looking '63 Lark. They're fairly rare, too, and I like the seat and door trim even better than a Daytona!

I've said this in the past, but I sure would have liked to see 63V-31238, which was a Super Red '63 Custom two-door sedan with the complete R2 High Performance Package. It was a Powershift, had a white Skytop and solid black vinyl bucket seat interior. Went to Hecker Motors in Hollidaysburg, PA. The name in the SNM archives listed on the card as original owner is still with us. I wrote him and he said he was good friends with the dealership owner but didn't remember owning such a car!

Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Lark Daytona Skytop R1 (sold new by Cordell Motors, Moorhead, MN)
'64 Daytona Hardtop (sold new by Carl E. Filer Co., Greenville, PA)

[BobPalma]

The subject photo of Richard's factory R1 / 4-speed 1963 R1 Lark Custom 2-door also appeared in an issue of Musclecar Enthusiast about a year ago. It was nicely-sized in the magazine, too; not a little postage-stamp print you could hardly see.

Further, Richard's Lark was delivered new at Warren & Day Studebaker in San Bernardio CA. Warren & Day sold many high-performance Studebakers. Among them (besides Richard's car, here) was Gordon Williams' 1963 R1 / HD Flightomatic Standard in the period [1963] B&W photo on Page 64 of the February 2009 Collectible Automobile article High-Performance Studebakers of the 50s and 60s. [8D]BP

[Bredehoft]

Here is another of Richard's car that I took last year at Bean Blossom. It it hard to tell in this small photo, but you can't read the tire because the wheel is just starting to spin. You can check the larger pic here:



--george

1963 Lark Daytona HT - 63V J8 175
53-54 C/Ks, 55 Speedsters, 63 Daytonas, Wagonaires Registries

[raprice]

Pretty car.

Rog

'59 Lark VI Regal Hardtop
Smithtown,NY
Long Island Studebaker Club

[s2d63lark]

quote:Originally posted by Bill Pressler

A '63 Custom two-door sedan, IMHO, is the best-looking '63 Lark. They're fairly rare, too, and I like the seat and door trim even better than a Daytona!

I have to agree with Bill. The 4 doors aren't half bad either, but then again, I'm prejudiced towards them (check the signature below).

Doug

6E40-195 1963 Canadian Lark VY-6 4E2 Deluxe Scotsman

Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada

[okc63avanti]

Beautiful car

John


63R-2386 under restoration & modification

[63larkr1]

WOW, thanks guys, and thanks Chris and George for posting the pictures of our car. As Bob Palma said a picture was in MCE last year. Bob Peterson, you should know you went down the track in it with me if I remember right.
Richard

[laughinlark]

That is a beautiful 63 Custom. What a cool pic George posted of the rear on the strip.

Gordon