Studes in Roadside Americana photos

[Noxnabaker]

The -51 in #6578 is a Danish driving-school's car & I think the "K" on the numberplate indicates København.

[r1lark]

Joe, thanks for posting those pics of Dick Passwater's GT Hawk - they are great!

[Lou Van Anne]

Does that GT still exist?

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[Studedude]

[BobPalma]

Does anybody here know anything about this scene. Rather unusual to see a Studebaker GT Hawk on the track with those big Fords.

Joe, that's the 1964 Yankee 300 stock car race on the Indianapolis Raceway Park road course. I was there!

We've discussed the car and the experience in several previous threads. (I'm sure Craig Parslow will have them pulled up and linked before I've posted this!) BP

[JRoberts]

Bob how did the GT perform against the cars in the race? What drive train was it using? I couldn't come up with anythngi using the search.

[Warren Webb]

Okay here is some more about the GT. Ex-Granatelli Stude, owned and driven by Dick Passwater in USAC 1964.

Funny they didn't remove the wheel opening and rocker moldings but in the black& white picture it appears the hood has kinked already!

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[BobPalma]

Bob how did the GT perform against the cars in the race? What drive train was it using? I couldn't come up with anything using the search.

Well, Joe, if you can wait a day or two until Craig Parslow sees this, he'll probably post a half-dozen links in ten minutes!

It supposedly had a genuine R3 in it, and I believe it did. It kind of held its own in the race, but couldn't corner as well as some of the carefully-set-up big cars. Too, the big-inch engines had grunt right out of the corners, whereas the R3 had to spool up to develop its full power. I'm not sure if he finished the race and if he did, I don't know where he placed.

I wish I knew more particulars, but there's no sense making things up, so I'll stop with having shared what little I remember about the car and/or that race. I vividly remember watching it, though! BP

[2R2]

Regarding the 1964 Hawk which was shown racing in Indianapolis Raceway Park. For those of you who subscribed to the old Jet Thrust News newsletter, this car and it's driver, Dick Passwater, was featured in issue #15 & #16 (they are available on-line). The car was 64V-1005, and was one of the cars taken to Bonneville by the Granatelli's (the #5 car, per the article). Again, per the article, when raced at Bonneville, it as a R3, but when sold to Dick, it contained a R2.
As Bob P. observed, Dick Passwater stated the car was fast down the straights, but was hard to handle in the turns. For '65, Dick pulled the tired R2 and dropped in a Pontiac engine put Stude valvecovers on it, and went racing. After the '65 season, he sold it to a man in Texas, who he heard wrecked it.

Again, i am just passing this along from an old issue of JT News!

[garyash]

Dave Lester: What was the convertible/roadster that you posted in #6572? I think I see right hand drive on the roadster and foreign license plates on the Studebaker.

[Studedude]

Dave Lester: What was the convertible/roadster that you posted in #6572? I think I see right hand drive on the roadster and foreign license plates on the Studebaker.

Gary, I stumbled across that picture while surfing one evening, don't remember where I found it.

[JRoberts]

A twofer.....

[BobPalma]

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