1962 Studebaker

Coupe

8 - Cyl.

Manual

Clear

Gasoline

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1503 8571 Take Your Car To Auction, LLC 71 17 10525 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk Drive it home! The Studebaker Company was always considered Avant-garde in their styling and engineering designs ideas that started in the 1920’s and continued all the way until Studebaker closed their doors. One of the most famous designs ever put on a car was the Raymond Loewy 1953 Studebaker, even today one has to be amazed at its basic beautiful flowing lines. This primary design continued to be improved upon over the years. In 1962, Studebaker came out with the Grand Turismo Hawk. This was considered a American car with European accents. It had bucket seats, floor shift and become the eventual classic that it deserved to be. The 289 cu. in. V8 Studebaker engine with 210 hp and Flite-O-Matic automatic transmission all have become legendary. The grille shows the Mercedes influence and adds to the classic lines of the overall car. The car that you see before you follows the traditional Mercedes silver color and as the owner has indicated, you can drive this car anywhere. Bucket Seats, Floor Stick Shifter, Black Interior. Great Driver Odometer shows 9,749 miles. Radio missing. The owner of this particular car has asked us not to reveal the reserve but as we always try to do when that happens is we try to give some type of indication as we are going to do here to let you know that the reserve is well south of $10,000.00. There are not many classics that are rapidly appreciating that you can enjoy driving every day and still know that your investment can only increase as time goes on. You can join the country club or take a vacation but at the end your investment money is gone. Here is an opportunity to have the pride of ownership, fun of driving the car and in the end it is like money in the bank. Generically cars like this are highly recommended for their great potential investment value in the future. So there you have it the basic 1953 Studebaker design modified by Brooks Stevens, the famous Milwaukee automotive designer who also designed the Excalibur, put his finishing touch on the design of the 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk to make it a legend today. Brooks Stevens other famous work of art was the Excalibur and today you are hard pressed to find an Excalibur under $50,000.00. INTERNET REFERENCE I Motoring Memories: Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk, 1962-1964 Autos . Ca Story and photo by Bill Vance The 1950s Studebaker coupes, which bowed as the Starlight and Starliner models in 1953, and evolved into the Hawk series in 1956, were among the prettiest American cars ever built. The graceful lines and low silhouettes, penned in stylist Raymond Loewy’s studio, gave them an elegance that inspired Road & Track magazine to label the line “The American Car with the European Look.” They came almost too late, however. Most independent automakers had suffered badly or disappeared during the Depression. The onslaught of the Big Three after World War II was in the process of finishing the job. To survive, Studebaker merged with Packard in 1954 to form the Studebaker-Packard Corp. By 1959, the Hawk, which in its heyday had come in four series – Flight Hawk, Power Hawk, Sky Hawk and Golden Hawk – was down to just the Silver Hawk. Sales slid from a high of 19,674 in 1957, to 4,507 in 1960, and a dismal 3,929 in 1961. Since the Hawk was not financially worth keeping in the model lineup, Studebaker-Packard faced a decision; either drop it or somehow rejuvenate it. They decided to try for another run, and engaged the services of Brooks Stevens, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, industrial designer, to work his magic on the Hawk. Stevens accepted the challenge. Recognizing that the coupe’s basic lines would have to remain unchanged, he concentrated on the areas of least cost. Sheet metal alterations were limited to new exterior door skins, without the coupe’s sculpturing. A new top was fitted with squared-up roof quarter panels reminiscent of the ’58 to ’61 Ford Thunderbird. The rest was done mostly with stripes, accents, lights and vents. The new grille surround bore a Mercedes-Benz influence (Studebaker-Packard was North American distributor of M-Bs at that time), and a simple but tasteful mesh pattern was specified for the grille. Mouldings extended atop the full length of the fender lines, ending in new tail-lamps that echoed those of the ’61 Lincoln Continental. Fender cutouts were accentuated by chrome mouldings that connected with wide stainless steel rocker panel stripes, providing a tidy side appearance. The inset rear window, formal roofline, and a rear grille with a pattern matching the front one, gave the car a distinctive following view. With a new badge placement here, a chrome stripe there, the job was completed. The new Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk, named to accentuate the European flavour Stevens hoped it would project, made its debut for 1962. It was immediately evident that he had wrought a minor miracle. With little time or money Stevens had created a crisp, refreshingly appealing design that nicely concealed its ancestry. The Gran Turismo Hawk was well received by auto critics, lauded as a European-type, four-place Grand Touring car. Its performance was more than adequate, thanks to the use of the corporate overhead valve V-8 with 4.7 litres (289 cu in.) displacement. Its 210 horsepower (225 with the optional 4-barrel carburetor) went to the rear wheels through the standard three-speed manual transmission, an optional three-speed automatic, or a four-speed, floor-shift manual. Despite its good reception, only a somewhat disappointing 9,335 1962 Gran Turismos were sold. The fact that Studebaker’s viability was in question no doubt cast a long shadow over GT sales. 1962-1964 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk by the Auto Editors of Consumers Guide As part of the plan to keep Studebaker in the auto business, Sherwood Egbert called on Brooks Stevens to update the Hawk. With little time and less money, Stevens created the stunning Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk. An enraged Raymond Loewy rushed to a phone when he first saw the new Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk at the 1961 Paris Auto Show. He couldn't understand how Studebaker could have allowed Brooks Stevens to modify his firm's 1953 Studebaker Starliner design so extensively. Fortune magazine had called it "one of the hundred best designs of modern times." In his transatlantic call to South Bend, he demanded to know what had happened and how. Studebaker executives, however, realized the wisdom of their decision and stood by Brooks Stevens' new design. Loewy, busy with the Avanti project for Studebaker, dropped the matter. Only infrequently has a face-lift not destroyed the purity of an original concept. Stevens' heroic restyling of the Starliner is an example of the rare exception ("heroic" because Stevens accomplished the task on a shoestring budget and in very limited time). His 1962-1964 Gran Turismo Hawk emerged as a refreshing, timeless design that looks as good today as when it first debuted almost 50 years ago. And Stevens' design took nothing away from the Starliner, for when parked side by side both cars still look "right." When Stevens was called to South Bend, Studebaker -- the oldest vehicle manufacturer in the U.S. -- was on the ropes. It had made wagons since before the Civil War, but now pressures were mounting, from within and without, to abandon automobile production. Some say Studebaker had been slowly dying ever since its brush with bankruptcy in the 1930s. But material production had brought in a lot of capital during World War II, and the future looked promising in 1946. The challenges and opportunities were there. The problem was that management consistently took the wrong turn at every crossroad. In some ways, the company was ahead of its time, as with its late Forties and early Fifties association with Loewy. In other aspects, it seemed woefully out of date, especially in some areas of engineering. Ford is generally given credit for creating the sporty "personal-luxury" market with the 1958 Thunderbird, or "Squarebird." Its basic dimensions seem to have been borrowed from General Motors' Autorama dream cars of the mid-Fifties, but GM didn't enter this segment until Pontiac fielded the 1962 Grand Prix -- or mid-1961, when Olds debuted the Starfire. In fact, Studebaker beat both Ford and GM to market in 1956 with the sporty, well-trimmed Hawk. Although really a makeover of the 1953 Starliner, the Hawk was both a good performer and a good looker, particularly the top-of-the-line Golden Hawk. Studebaker called it "a sports car...that restores the fun and excitement to luxury motoring." Only later did others invade that market niche -- 1958 T-Bird, 1963 Riviera, 1966 Olds Toronado, 1967 Cadillac Eldorado, and others -- but Studebaker could lay claim to being the first of this lineage. REMEMBER THAT THE 1962 STUDEBAKER GRAN TURISMO’S ARE VERY RARE WITH WELL LESS THAN 10,000 MADE. XxXxXxX XxXxXxX XxXxXxX ?There is no warranty implied or otherwise. Car is sold ‘as is, where is and shown’ on ebay. PLEASE READ BEFORE BIDDING! Any questions need to be asked BEFORE bidding by calling 847-774-4857. If you are a bidder with · less then 20 feedback · Negative Feedback · More than 1 retracted bid in six months · Outside of USA If any of the above applies to you – call 847-774-4857 before bidding. 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