The last gasp of Studebaker, a great defunct Indiana car manufacturer along with Deusenberg and Auburn. It was a remarkable car in several ways, but ultimately the final act for a venerable firm. The preceding Champion and Starliner models became enduring classics, to name but two, and Ray Loewy was again called upon to knock together this strange fiberglass car to wow the public at the 1962 New York Motor Show. Sadly, labor strikes, price wars between GM and Ford and high production costs ultimately meant that out of the planned production run of over 20,000 cars, only 4,600 made it out of the factory, with just 809 produced in this, its final year. The company itself limped on for another couple of years, then closed its doors.
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