Would it have sold? Styling photo

[Studebaker Wheel]

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee285/studeq/newsgroup/bourke51frontforum.jpg?t=1291866226

Your call.

[Milaca]

The tall side window looks out of proportion to me. Not a good look, in my opinion.

[rockne10]

The original Starlight offered more window vision than any competitors' models prior. The larger door windows would have increased that further but I don't find the side lines pleasing, including the small rear fender extrusion. I think the grill treatment has a lot going for it. Put that front clip on the Starlight that was produced and I would drive it.

[Chris_Dresbach]

Hehe... I like it. That's the Starlight clay that later became the model N. On the other side of that car was the 2 door sedan version. The metal protos got changed only in that they got the "Z" in the door and '51 front ends. I'd buy one!!!

[Tom Bredehoft]

Thats' a Commander clay isn't it? 1950?

[sweetolbob]

Richard

If this was a Styling Buck for a potential newer model for the 52 and up years, The 53/54 Lowey's were a much better choice. There is just no continuity in the styling to make it marketable. I'll bet the rear end looks just as strange by the chrome fins on the tail lights.

However, thanks for posting. Your posts and pix are a great asset to the forum and Studebaker history.

Bob

[mbstude]

ISTR that the Model N was being conceived to be the 100th anniversary car.

I am so glad that the '53's we know and love today are what was produced.

For a short while I was owner of one of the metal Model N doors. Mr. Dresbach has it now.

[BRUCESTUDE]

I've seen this photo before, and always thought the model N series was pretty radical, quite the oppisite of where they ended up (the '53's!). It's like they took styling cues from previous models and greatly exaggerated them.

[Chris Pile]

Well, I wouldn't have bought one.

[Chris_Dresbach]

The rear end isn't as "out there" as you might think. It's actually just "pushed inward" at the rear and has a different handle. The N cars are actually almost the opposite of a production '53. Look at the Z in the doors for example...

[Studebaker Wheel]

Well, maybe this angle will sell you......and then again maybe not.

[Da Tinman]

Might have been hard to see out of, looks like the pillar would be beside your head in a seated position. So using that logic and making the door a shade longer and the rear window side shorter it would have been a neat looker!

I also love the door handles.

[Sdude]

The 53 Loewy Coupes should have been produced as they were. This could have been the sedan line instead of trying to push the Coupe design into a sedan which did not work so well and caused so many production problems.

I'd like to see a station wagon version of the N.

Chris??????

[JGK 940]

I've always liked it, but no: I don't think it would have sold.

There was a real-world war on at the time so adult men, the default target demographic for Studebakers, were remembering B-17s and B-24s and leafing through Popular Science and Mechanix Illustrated to try to figure out what was in the works from Lancaster and Burbank and El Segundo and San Diego and... well, you get the idea. Buck Rogers images were for kids' comic books and, to my eye at least, that's where this proposal looks like it belongs.

I just happen to like it because I like comic book art.

[8E45E]

How about the '4 door' side of it?



Craig