Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Studebaker Auto Museum

  The old car manufacturer Studebaker has a great auto museum in South Bend Indiana. There are three floors of antique cars, wagons, buggies and military items, made by Studebaker. Never heard of Studebaker? The were in business as a blacksmith shop in 1852. They built wagons and buggies before they built cars. The collection features the Barouche that President Abraham Lincoln used the night of his assassination, President Grant’s Brewster Landau, President McKinley’s Studebaker Phaeton, and President Benjamin Harrision’s Studebaker Brougham. If you have an interest in antique automobiles, you need to see this collection. It's almost all Studebaker. Studebaker closed in March 1966. This link will provide more information: https://studebakermuseum.org/ 

I took plenty of photos and here are just a few of them. My dad talked a lot about Studebaker cars when I was a kid. He would have made a good tour guide in the museum. Now I know what he was talking about.

1853 Conestoga Wagon by Studebaker.

Later model with temporary driver but it won't start.

Horse drawn hearse

President Lincolns last ride to Ford Theater



Studebakers set a number of land records.
This is a 1927 "Commander'

1913 Model 25 Touring Model

1922 Big Six Childs Hearse

1935 President Convertible Sedan

1937 Coupe Express

This is NOT a 57 Chevrolet but it is a Studebaker

US Army wagon from WW I

1936 Ace truck




1963 Lark Sedan $2295.00

1961 Hawk $2695.00

1964 R4 engine Avanti V8 Dual 4-barrel 280 hp. 

1963 Avanti #9 recorder a speed of 170.81 MPH at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
The R3 engine was supercharger with 400 hp.

1963 Avanti. It set a speed record of 200.426 MPH in 1993 at the Salt Flats.
The V8 engine had 585 HP.

A 1928 fire truck.

1961 Studebaker Champ. Good looking pickup truck.

The last car built by Studebaker, a 1966 Cruiser built in Hamilton, Ontario plant.
It would have sold for $2405.00. I wonder what it's worth now.

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