Another 'what kind of car is this?' thread
 

Yesterday I was driving down an alley in a sketchy part of town and there was this tiny gated parking lot behind an old service garage/warehouse with these cars in the back of the lot. I have never seen anything like these before but there are 5 of them (one is parked nose first). They all look just a bit different but they're all similar enough for me to assume they are all the same make/model. Just different years maybe? License plates date to the 70's so they've been parked for awhile, not that that means anything.

Anyway, anyone know or can tell from this pic taken with a potato from 200 feet away in full zoom? Not like I'm going to buy them or anything but just to know what they are.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1538105698.jpg

Studebaker?

Yup, various Studebakers.

+1 Studebaker.

And I guess they are. Never even knew these models existed. Thanks! I wonder if any Studebaker fans know these exist...

They are rusting iron

That's a 93-97 Ford F150. The rest are Studebakers.

Fun fact, Studebaker could trace it's heritage to the Conestoga wagons that brought many of the settlers to the West (think Oregon Trail), and in the '50's they had a station wagon model called the Conestoga.

Stude was a pretty damn innovative company, they had some really cool cars, like the Hawk and Golden Hawk, (and some think the Avanti was pretty, I never saw it, but you could get one with a supercharger).
Definitely a respected thread in the fabric of American Automotive history.

The one in the back is a Lark and there are four Hawks. Possibly there is something else parked in front of the Hawk parked with the nose in. The Hawk was a Brooks Stevens update of the Bob Bourke-designed Starlight/Starliner coupes. Studebaker never had very much money for product but they sure knew how to make the most of the little they had. For instance, the '59 Lark, a compact, was a drastically shortened version of the '57-'58 large sedans, which were themselves redos of the '53-'55 sedan version of the coupes of which the Hawk is a derivation. Until the Avanti, the last really all-new car they did was in 1953.