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Soup DeVille

#120
February 23, 2014, 02:11:48 PM
Quote from: cawimmer430 on February 19, 2014, 01:29:05 PM
That Studebaker Wagonaire commercial is BRILLIANT!  :praise:

Now that's some awesome advertising! I enjoyed that commercial despite its silliness.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/studebaker/wagonaire/1169802.html

Now, you can have your very own!
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Secret Chimp

#121
February 24, 2014, 12:14:44 AM
Jesus those things were just pug ugly.


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FoMoJo

#122
February 24, 2014, 09:39:40 AM
Quote from: Secret Chimp on February 24, 2014, 12:14:44 AM
Jesus those things were just pug ugly.
Yet they produced this at the same time...



Perhaps not to everyone's taste, but I thought it was brilliant.
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cawimmer430

#123
February 24, 2014, 09:51:00 AM
Quote from: Soup DeVille on February 23, 2014, 02:11:48 PM
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/studebaker/wagonaire/1169802.html

Now, you can have your very own!

It's nice, but run down.

I'd rather invest my money into a 1974 Dodge Monaco Wagon!  :praise:
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Madman

#124
February 24, 2014, 10:29:17 AM
Quote from: FoMoJo on February 24, 2014, 09:39:40 AM
Yet they produced this at the same time...



Perhaps not to everyone's taste, but I thought it was brilliant.


The ORIGINAL pony car!  Introduced nearly two years before the Mustang.

If only Studebaker hadn't been such a financial basket case by this point, the Avanti could have had a real chance.  :cry:

This was a car that truly deserved to succeed.
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FoMoJo

#125
February 24, 2014, 10:51:06 AM
Quote from: Madman on February 24, 2014, 10:29:17 AM

The ORIGINAL pony car!  Introduced nearly two years before the Mustang.

If only Studebaker hadn't been such a financial basket case by this point, the Avanti could have had a real chance.  :cry:

This was a car that truly deserved to succeed.
As I recall, it set some speed records for its class.  A guy in my neighbourhood, way back then, had one.  I drooled whenever I saw it.
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"As the saying goes, when you mix science and politics, you get politics."

MX793

#126
February 24, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
Quote from: Madman on February 24, 2014, 10:29:17 AM

The ORIGINAL pony car!  Introduced nearly two years before the Mustang.

If only Studebaker hadn't been such a financial basket case by this point, the Avanti could have had a real chance.  :cry:

This was a car that truly deserved to succeed.

The Corvair (which the Mustang was built to compete against in the affordable, sporty, compact coupe segment) came out 2 years before the Avanti.  And the Studebaker Hawk, which was more of a pony car than the Avanti (smaller, lighter, sold with a 6-cylinder motor as well as V8) came out even earlier.  The Avanti was more a personal luxury coupe than a pony car.
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Soup DeVille

#127
February 24, 2014, 03:09:18 PM
Quote from: MX793 on February 24, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
The Corvair (which the Mustang was built to compete against in the affordable, sporty, compact coupe segment) came out 2 years before the Avanti.  And the Studebaker Hawk, which was more of a pony car than the Avanti (smaller, lighter, sold with a 6-cylinder motor as well as V8) came out even earlier.  The Avanti was more a personal luxury coupe than a pony car.

Yes, the Hawk and the Commander were more in line with the pony car idea. The Avanti was really the successor to the GT Hawk, which was a high end personal performance coupe, more like a BMW 6 series is today.
Maybe we need to start off small. I mean, they don't let you fuck the glumpers at Glumpees without a level 4 FuckPass, do they?

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FoMoJo

#128
February 24, 2014, 04:48:14 PM
Quote from: MX793 on February 24, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
The Corvair (which the Mustang was built to compete against in the affordable, sporty, compact coupe segment) came out 2 years before the Avanti.  And the Studebaker Hawk, which was more of a pony car than the Avanti (smaller, lighter, sold with a 6-cylinder motor as well as V8) came out even earlier.  The Avanti was more a personal luxury coupe than a pony car.
I believe the Corvair was intended to compete in the econo car segment with the likes of the Falcon.  It did, of course, add performance models..the Monza, Spyder, Turbo Spyder...as did the Falcon...Sprint.  The Mustang was 'the' pony car.  As for Studebaker Hawks, they were around in the mid-50s...essentially as an extention of the Loewy coupe.  The Grand Turismo Hawk was a further development of the original Hawk series and, as a Sporty GT model, was more of a competitor of the T-Bird and Pontiac Grand Prix.
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