Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The new-for-1947 Studebakers designed under Virgil Exner’s watch might have had some of the most modern styling of any American car up to that point, but one of Exner’...
Photos by the author What could be more apt than criss-crossing the country in a motor home from the same company that sent hundreds of Conestoga wagons down the Oregon Trail? Believe it or not, this...
So this 1964 Studebaker GT Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com is gonna need some sweat equity to hit the road again. That’ll probably scare off all but the most interested of buyers, and the necessary rus...
Most folks probably know David Greenless as the man behind The Old Motor, but he’s also an accomplished restorer and caretaker of pre-World War I thoroughbreds, including the 1915 Duesenberg race car...
Photo by John Penrice. At its peak, Studebaker operated out of more than a hundred buildings scattered across South Bend, each dedicated to a particular auto manufacturing need. Renovating every one ...
Bill Frick may be best known as the mechanical genius behind the Fordillac and, later, the Studillac, but his automotive dreams were grander than dropping Cadillac engines in someone else’s cars. Par...
Image via Google Maps. Old Studebaker dealership buildings tend not to attract the attention of big-city mayors or generate headline news these days. One in Phoenix, however, has proved the exception...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...
Photos courtesy Cliff and Larry Read, except where noted. Our previous look at the scratchbuilt model work of Cliff and Larry Read, courtesy Gene Herman, might have made it seem as though only one of...
Other vehicles designed and built by Ferdinand Porsche going back to the turn of the century have adopted the Porsche name in the years since, but the first to actually wear the Porsche name, accordi...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
It’s a misnomer to call any automotive restoration easy – restorations, when they’re done right, require plenty of effort and resources, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise – but some restoratio...
A National Editorial Association press release photo, dated October 31, 1935, announces, “Helen Dryden, industrial designer for the Studebaker President, is the only woman to to invade man’s domain, ...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
For many of us, the fun part of owning an old car is working on it ourselves – troubleshooting mechanical problems and then getting our hands dirty repairing or maintaining the car. But sometimes it’...
Progress has claimed another old building with automotive ties: the former Studebaker dealership in downtown Akron, which has stood vacant for some time. According to the Akron Beacon-Journal, the ow...
In 2010 the finnish Leningrad Cowboys returned to Mexico to win the legendary La Carrera Panamericana 2010 rally - with two classic racecars! What happened? Well, the Studebaker with driver Harri Rov...