righto ,give these a go

Oh and kirky.......your a rebel

My stepson restored a '64 Lark that was originally a S.A. ambulance. It had a fibreglass panel-van style body. It had the Studebaker V8 .. but I understand quite a few of the last of the Studeys had Chev 283's fitted, when Studebaker were about to hit the wall.

One of the nicest Studeys I ever saw, belonged to a local doc when I was an early teenager, in the early 60's.
It was a 2-door GT Hawk, and it was a magnificent car then, and still would be now. I often wonder what happened to it.

no bloke just a hotrodder i forgot about the 9in in them larks well done adam

Roger that kirky, i read some where a long time ago, that later on they had no one on there design team that actually enjoyed making cars, and the design team treated it just as a job, with no interest in the vehicles at all, "the begining of the end" :'( , they made some kool cars early on, my favourite was the starlight coupe in the bulletnose ,49/50 i think, although the gt hawk that ron spoke of, was pretty neat, i think there was a factory paxton supercharger option aswell in that model

As a sidestep...
there is a bloke up near St Arnaud (Vic) that does a few
Stewedebaekerrrs
neat lookin gadgets
were their v8's 260?
chocs

Chocs - Yes, the Studey V8 was a 259 cu in. Studebaker closed its South Bend Indiana plant in 1963, and that was the end of GT Hawk production.
Studebaker consolidated all production from Dec '63 into their Hamilton, Ontario plant, and all these last Canadian Larks were Chev-powered.

Thanks for that Ron..

An end to an era,,,,

chocs

adam i was not aware of the bugger it atitude in the end but those compact larks with a 283 ran bl@@dy hard mate i didnt think we were ever gonna shake that copper, when we did we were so lost it took half of monday to find the hume outta vic

.......... second white 7000 fibreglass cab

That White is actually a 5000 model the 7400 and 7500 models were a square shaped cab

I'm surprised you blokes never picked that up before me.....

Is it possible you are correct werk???




Pic courtesy barry & rick coffey collection