As several posters here have commented on: the earlier Studes had all sorts of frame issues on the older cars and by ca. 1961-61, they were fixed.
What I'm getting at is it possible that the 'best' Studes; structurally speaking, are the 1962-64 Hawks and the 1962 Lark? Note that the final Hawks have a direct lineage all the way back to the 1953 Starlight(?) and the above Lark was also the last of the 1950's sedans re: curved windshield, etc. Read that the body/frame bugs had all been worked out with 1963 up having a different set of alleged issues. And the 1962 Larks all had the thicker frames.
What I'm getting at is it possible that the 'best' Studes; structurally speaking, are the 1962-64 Hawks and the 1962 Lark? Note that the final Hawks have a direct lineage all the way back to the 1953 Starlight(?) and the above Lark was also the last of the 1950's sedans re: curved windshield, etc. Read that the body/frame bugs had all been worked out with 1963 up having a different set of alleged issues. And the 1962 Larks all had the thicker frames.
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