From the archives #157 (Good thing she didn't order a convertible)

[Studebaker Wheel]

Or a Starliner....

[StudeRich]

OCH! Poor Commander, it MAY have been a 2 Door Sedan.

[57pack]

And the door still opened! She was one Lucky gal!

[wlfrench]

With today's seat belt laws she never would have made it.

[62champ]

On that day my uncle was in the field on the back of a tractor and could see the cloud complex over the Waco about an hour north of his location - he said as big and black as it was, you just knew it was not going to be good.

And the '52 wasn't the only Studebaker in the middle of things:

[Studebaker Wheel]

114 deaths - 196 businesses and factories were destroyed; 217 sustained major damage, and 179 sustained lesser damages. 150 homes were destroyed, 250 sustained major damage, and 450 sustained lesser damages. Over 2000 cars were damaged or destroyed and the First United Methodist Church was severely damaged. Over half the dead - 61 - were in a single city block bounded by 4th and 5th streets and Austin and Franklin avenues. This tornado tied the 1902 Goliad tornado for the deadliest in Texas and 11th deadliest in the United States. 597 additional people were injured and the tornado caused up to $41.2 million in property damage.^[1]

[Michidan]

What a mangled mess that poor 52 is. Yet, with those discs and whitewalls it still manages to look classy.