Happy camper with the 1963 GT hawk parts car

[Maxeffort]

Did the car come from the shop on Sycamore and Herman?

You are correct sir.
You know anything about it?

[S2Deluxe]

What's that I see, in the garage behind it? That looks like a '53 or '54 Starliner? How complete is that? Is that what you were talking about, using the GT as a parts car for?

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If it just needs a drive line, that wouldn't seem like such a bad option, either?

Mark

[plee4139]

I wonder if it's possible to be happy without being a "camper?"

[8E45E]

Looks like all original paint, no major rust, all original parts present. A great car to restore.

It looks like it was originally white, going by the photos.

I agree, it would be worthy of a restoration.

Craig

[spokejr]

At first I had it on a gas can and then I put 3 gallons in the tank. My Harbor Freight $59 scope camera allowed me to look into all of the cylinders as well as the gas tank to see all was in good shape.
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If it started up this easy, she wants to live on. Get her running and driving, then sell her on and get back to one in the garage.

[Maxeffort]

Well after getting the Hawk road worthy and inspected my goal was to get it to the areas largest car show, also one of the last shows of the season. The event is 30 miles away so this would be a good test of the cars road worthy-ness. She passed with flying colors. A smooth round trip of 60 miles with out a hick-up.
I know she ain't no show car but folks really do like to see a survivor. A barn find that had no barn.
What I thought would be a rotted mess has proved to be a good runner that is a lot of fun to cruise around in.
My boys have been calling the car "The Dirty Bird" Fair enough.

[mch]

again congrats, love the story and the recent photo, a great find, lucky for this "Dirty Bird" life gets a restart
Mark

[swvalcon]

Scott. Studebaker used the two best engines ever built. Studebakers and the chevy 283.