#Studebaker Champion Starlight

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1950 Studebaker Champion Starlight coupe

A 1950 Studebaker Champion Starlight coupe costumized to resemble a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, photographed in front os a B-17 Flying Fortress.

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1954 Studebaker Champion Regal Starlight

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Studebaker Starlight Champion Regal Coupe 1951. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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Studebaker 1950-1951 Champion Starlight Coupe

World War II had ended and the remnants of the auto industry were retooling from the manufacture of planes and tanks to providing civilian transportation.

Studebaker produced an iconoclastic gem with the 1950-1951 Champion Starlight Coupe. The “bullet nose” front end and wrap around rear window earned a populist tag, “Which way is it going?” With an excess of aerodynamics it earned both admiration and ridicule.

Additional images at https://www.martinautomuseum.org/studebaker-1950-1951-champion-starlight-coupe/

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Help!

Imagine Lucy in 1967. Obviously a 1977 Datsun doesn’t exist yet. What does Lucy drive instead?

A- 1959 Datsun Sports 1000 roadster (the earlier model of Lucy’s ‘77 Datsun) (both pictures are of the same model)

B- 1950 VW Beetle

C- 1957 Toyota Toyopet

D-1951 Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe

E- 1950s Nash Rambler

I can’t decide if having an older, more beat up and unsafer car is more important, or having an import, or a style.

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STUDEBAKER SPOTTED. REWIND AND ZOOM. 3:32 studebaker starlight 1950-51, unclear if champion or commander. wahooooo my beloved.

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1949 Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe

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Studebaker '50 Champion Starlight Coupé 'Bullet Nose' by Paul Vanrusselt

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1949 Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe

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<strong>1954 Studebaker Champion Regal Starlight Coupe <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/">by Alden Jewell</a></strong>

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Starring: ‘50 Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe

By Gilles Péris y Saborit

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The Silver Bullet

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1951 Studebaker Champion Regal Starlight

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Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe 1951. - source 40 & 50 American Cars.

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Studebaker Champion Starlight Coupe 1952

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“The first by far with a postwar car!” the ads trumpeted; and it was true. The cars didn’t actually get into customers’ hands until very late in the year and they housed mostly pre-war mechanics, but the ‘47 Studebakers were genuinely new and radical compared to the warmed-over ‘42s on every other lot; though Henry Kaiser’s new cars were also arriving. The most interesting one was the “Starlight” coupe, with its rakish aircraft-inspired roofline. The ads credited the design to Raymond Loewy - but they were actually done by Virgil Exner and the product of considerable palace intrigue. - Following stylistic (but not commercial) success consulting for Hupmobile, Loewy’s first Studebaker contract had come in 1936 and the first models credited to him arrived in 1938. Decades later Studebaker designer Bob Bourke would opine that while Loewy was brilliant at graphic design (and showmanship), he couldn’t style cars. “He was just ridiculous as far as cars were concerned, and he knew it.” Loewy’s cars were mostly designed by staffers - and in 1938 he’d lured Exner away from GM, where “Ex” had followed Frank Hershey in styling the 1937-38 Pontiacs. Exner, in turn, hired Bourke on the recommendation of fellow Loewy staffer Clare Hodgeman, who penned the 1939 Studebaker Champion. - As early as 1940 Exner and Bourke worked on proposals for a new Studebaker, but Loewy and Exner often clashed and the alliance with Studebaker skaky. Arguments were usually mediated by Gordon Buehrig, then working for Loewy. With Exner spending a lot of time in South Bend rather than Loewy’s NYC office, Studebaker VP Roy Cole had Exner work on his own proposals for the new car at home, and then, unbeknownst to Loewy, had Exner present them alongside the Loewy proposals in mid-1944. Studebaker chose Exner’s version and Loewy fired him. - Exner continued working on the ‘47s for Studebaker as an employee, but the cars were publicly credited to the well-known Loewy. The Starlight, with its wrap-around “vista dome” style canopy, was inspired by glassy aircraft cockpits and ran against the usual coupe practice of big C-pillars. The basic ‘47 body, with front and rear changes, ran into 1952. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vfr8MFoJj/?igshid=c07ybvi5gyjq