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The closure of the South Bend plant was announced on December 9, 1963, and the final Lark-type car, a Bordeaux Red 1964 Daytona two-door hardtop (originally intended for shipment to a dealer in Pennsylvania), rolled off the assembly line on December 20. This car is now housed at the Studebaker Museum in South Bend.
The following list consists of automotive models produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1899 to 1963 and Studebaker Canada Ltd. from 1964 through the spring 1966. In 1961, many of these were offered with special Marshal (police) packages: a 170 cu in (2.8 L) [ 1 ] 6-cylinder City Marshal, 259 cu in (4.2 L) V8 Patrol ...
Studebaker built a total of 11,915 fixed and sliding roof station wagons for the initial year. [10] When Studebaker closed its South Bend, Indiana, assembly plant and continued production at its Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, plant, the company discontinued the Avanti and Hawk, but continued to build the Lark-based sedans and Wagonaire station ...
Studebaker's Avanti was a last, lovely roll of the dice for the independent carmaker. The R2 version featured a supercharged 289-cubic-inch V-8 and only 1833 were built. This no-reserve auction ...
The car was based on the 1953 2-door hardtop coupe. ... announcement for the building sale. Studebaker built 63,789 engines at the plant and each had nearly 8,000 ...
The four-model Hawk range launched in 1956, mirrored the engine and trim levels of the sedans. There were two coupes; the Flight Hawk was a base model powered by Champion's obsolete and underpowered flathead straight-6 enlarged to 185.6 cubic inch; the Power Hawk used Studebaker's mid-level OHV 259 cu. in. with either 180 hp (130 kW) 2-bbl or 195 hp (145 kW) with a 4-bbl in (4.7 L) V8 from the ...
1958 Packard 2-door hardtop coupe. 1958 saw the Packard line expanded to four models; a 4-door sedan, a 2-door hardtop (sometimes referred to as the "Starlight", a name used by Studebaker), a 4-door station wagon, and the Packard Hawk, a modification of Studebaker's Golden Hawk with a "fishmouth" Packard grille.
For the 1961, Studebaker added a Lark model, the Cruiser, which continued through the 1966 model year. This model was built on the longer wheelbase chassis and was a better equipped and more luxurious version of the 4-door Lark and was designed to harken back to the Studebaker Land Cruiser sedans of the late Forties and early Fifties.