[ken5050]

Thanks for the great pic..

I'm positive ours had the big Packard hood ornament..sort of a "Winged Victory" IIRC.

My dad worked for Packard after the war, then Packard merged with Studebaker..I remember him bringing home the Silver and Golden Hawks, which I always thought were beautiful cars, far superior to anything else being made in the USA. Raymond Loewey was a design genius. And or course, later on, Studebaker's last gasp..the Avanti. I drove one the first day I got my learner's permit..

[Lazlo in PA]

Geez. A Hawk. Studebaker really made some high performance stuff. Hawks are some of the best sports cars of the day. And an Avanti. Your old man had taste. If you dig deep, the Avanti is the car that sank Studebaker. They put so much money into the development of the car, they couldn't stay alive.

I have a Studebaker in my barn with all the other old iron. A Gravely L.

Unlike this one, mine is all original. The mower attachment should be red.