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  • #2
    Whoa- nice fins!!!





    StudeDave '57
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    • #3
      With '57 or latter fins. Studebaker managment sure missed the boat by not having a top of the line convertible as their showroom draw during the late fifties.

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      • #4
        A custom. Looks like it has '57 fins, as well.
        Gord Richmond, within Weasel range of the Alberta Badlands

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        • #5
          How do they keep the doors closed? Would there be weights up front like a lark droptop? Leave it to the French.
          Dave Warren (Perry Mason by day, Perry Como by night)

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          • #6
            Originally posted by warrlaw1 View Post
            How do they keep the doors closed? Would there be weights up front like a lark droptop? Leave it to the French.
            Appears to be a very clean conversion in any case; possibly some some obscure French coachbuilder(?) I wonder if it still survives.

            Craig

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            • #7
              Add this to the long running 'Stude's In The Movies' thread... Over 400 post's about movies and Stude's...

              http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...ude%27s+movies




              HTIH (Hope The Info Helps)

              Jeff


              Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain



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              • #8
                I have a pic from a movie of a -55 Studebaker convertible (I have borrowed it from google) that's had a crash with a 2cv & it's driven by a chauffeur & it's a elderly couple in the backseat & the driver has the door open but you can't see if it's got higher thresholds or some other strengtheners made.
                That car does not have fins & is only dark-colored on the lower half of the front until almost the door-end, following the "swoop".
                Probably the same car but you never know, the French & Italians were good at customizing in those days.
                Last edited by Noxnabaker; 12-04-2012, 01:50 PM.

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