What a great looking, and unique car Mr. Styers has for us today! All those motor, transmission, and differential options tells me the designers had something in mind for every type of buyer. Everything else looks pleasing to me, too. Thanks, Lou!
🙋♂️GOOD MORNING LOU STEVE thanks for sharing this convertible on a beautiful day And the interesting info on the V8 🧐 Also noticed a unique car in the garage 😁💚💚💚
Sadly, 1964 was the last year for South Bend Studebakers. Studebaker V-8s had very strong blocks. When Studebaker engineers designed their V-8 engine, they were anticipating continued improvements in fuel octane ratings. Their engines were designed to accept compression ratios of 15 to 1. Studebaker strengthened their V-8 engines by using high amounts of nickel in their block castings. Also, many of the internal components were forged steel instead of nodular iron. The Studebaker V-8 was introduced in 1951. It is considered to be the first American OHV V-8 engine introduced in the low-priced field.
What a beauty! I always thought that adding that longer trunk on the Lark body just transformed the looks. A friend in the sixties had that same deceptive vinyl treatment on the doors of his green '65 Impala; you'd swear it was carpet until you touched it. Made great sense. I also think this dashboard on these Studes was one of the most attractive of that period, looked very aircraft inspired. Studebakers always seemed, by the time I came along, to be more a car sold up north, though I did have an uncle here in TX with one of those bullet-nosed ones from the early 50's. Thanks for sharing and best wishes from the Houston/Galveston area!
My Dad had a Studebaker ('61 Hawk) when I was very young...drove to my Dad's Officer School in Alabama...from Maine. Steve has a beautiful orphan...Thanks Lou.
One of my Aunts had a 59 Studebaker Lark VI I think it was flathead 6 3 speed with overdrive I was a young child in the early 60's and barely remember it other than the color was Salmon .
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Very interesting the three different RPMs. They tested that motor at to establish its dependability and endurance was rather impressive. I had never heard that before any car manufacture.❤
Growing up in the South Bend area, there were plenty of Studebakers around. My dad bought Fords in those days, and we tended to think the Studebakers were ugly, and those people that owned cars made by the Big Three call them stupid bakers. However, when we joked about them, someone who had some experience with a Studebaker would set us straight on them. Nowadays I would have a totally different opinion of them. They were a car ahead of it's time. If I could afford to be a collector, I would have at minimum three Studebakers, a Lark, a Hawk, and an Avanti. Maybe if they had continued to make cars through to today, I may have bought one or more for my daily driver.
Always like stories on these cars. Even though they looked totally different I like the 1963 and 1964 Daytona equally. The 64 has very clean lines and is just the right size. I am a convertible guy too and like the old cars because the windshields were less angled, so you had a great view upward as well as around you with the top down.
Hey Lou! Another car from my year of birth - a Studebaker, and a Daytona Convertible at that! The '64s are the best looking Studebakers, IMO. Even that year's Gran Tourismo Hawk was the neatest looking of all the Hawks that Studey ever made. This Daytona is a beauty! A few fun facts I'd like to mention : Studebaker was the sponsor of the weekly television show "Mister Ed" with the talking horse. The name "Daytona" was later picked up by Dodge, and Studebaker offered a stripped-down model called "Challenger", and that, too, later became a Dodge model. Studebaker moved production to Canada at the beginning of 1964. Two years later, the final Studebaker rolled off the assembly line, in Ontario. (One of its cars, the Avanti, continued in limited production, into the 1990s.) Thanks again, Lou! I'll be looking for more, as I always do!
Hey Know Bodies Full! Happy to read you and this car sharing the same birth year :-) Glad to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Thank you for viewing, sharing, and you're welcome, Lou
What a great example of South Bend’s auto giant, Studebaker! With only two more years to live, this ‘64 Studie is a great road zipper ending a long, distinguished production run.
My Mother had a Bullet Nose 50s something. Have seen pictures before my time though. Nice find.🇨🇦 A little off topic but something I didn't know to recently Pontiacs that were built here in Ontario had Chevy v8s,enjoy your channel.
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My Auntie loved Studebakers. I did get to see a few over the years and wish that they were still around. They cornered the small-car market but there wasn't much of one in the post-war years.
My great uncle Jim was a car salesman in the 1960s. He died when I was very young. His wife, my grandmother's older sister and my first grade teacher (and my father's as well) lived for a long time afterward and we would visit her often. She had this odd doormat at her back door that I always admired because it had a stylized "S" on it, same as the hood ornament of this Daytona. Later I realized it was a Studebaker rear floor mat! I also remember 1964 Studebaker taxicabs in the city near my house. Very unusual cars and they lasted for years.
Hi Jeff, Happy to read you enjoy this "Extremely well preserved" car :-) You're welcome. Here is one more "Daytona" for you to enjoy, Lou th-cam.com/video/WGzZYIrkOxg/w-d-xo.html
I don't know a lot about these crs, but I do like what I see. It looks great in blue inside/outside. Towards the end of the line for Studebaker. In two years it would be finished. Great brochure! I had no idea there were so many different models. Interesting dash board. Great sound! Nice rumble! Great car. Would be an asset to anyone's collection of collector cars.
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What a great find Lou! Love the color especially! You sure don’t see a lot of Studebakers although I’ve been fortunate to photograph 2 or 3 of them at car shows I’ve attended where I live in Florida.
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Brass era (the car of 1905 1915 period, the beginning of car production) Studebaker was very fine and luxury cars, with price also of 5000 dollars of the time, like 150.000 / 200.000 dollars of today
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@@Pisti846 it's just the engine to be replaced ..there's plenty of old Volkswagen converted to electric cars ...there's even instructional vids how to convert ...
@@Pisti846 it's just the engine to be replaced ..there's plenty of old Volkswagen converted to electric cars ...there's even instructional vids how to convert ...
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Hi, If you like this video, please click on SUPER THANKS ❤ with the $ in the middle which is the SUPER THANKS button under the video. Thank you! Lou
always luved these cars👍
Never owned a Studebaker but like them. I like the hood ornament. This one is a very nice example 👌
Hi Gary, Happy to read you like Studebakers. My pleasure sharing this one with you, Lou
Studebaker recommended using STP oil treatment because they owned the company
Ahhh, that makes sense.
Yep, that stuff gummed up a lot of engines! It was all the rage for awhile.
When Studebaker bought the STP company, they got Andy Granatelli, the famous race car builder.
What a great looking, and unique car Mr. Styers has for us today! All those motor, transmission, and differential options tells me the designers had something in mind for every type of buyer. Everything else looks pleasing to me, too. Thanks, Lou!
Hi TheGunfighter45acp, Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) My pleasure sharing this car with you. You're welcome, Lou
🙋♂️GOOD MORNING LOU STEVE thanks for sharing this convertible on a beautiful day
And the interesting info on the V8 🧐
Also noticed a unique car in the garage 😁💚💚💚
You're welcome Budget Audiophile Life-long
Sadly, 1964 was the last year for South Bend Studebakers. Studebaker V-8s had very strong blocks. When Studebaker engineers designed their V-8 engine, they were anticipating continued improvements in fuel octane ratings. Their engines were designed to accept compression ratios of 15 to 1. Studebaker strengthened their V-8 engines by using high amounts of nickel in their block castings. Also, many of the internal components were forged steel instead of nodular iron. The Studebaker V-8 was introduced in 1951. It is considered to be the first American OHV V-8 engine introduced in the low-priced field.
Hi Randy, Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Lou
There's a 259-powered '62 Lark in my extended family. Gotta send this one over to them. Thanks Lou!! 👍🙂
Hi AMCmachine, Happy to read you have a 62 Lark in your extended family :-) NICE! You're welcome, Lou
What a beauty! I always thought that adding that longer trunk on the Lark body just transformed the looks. A friend in the sixties had that same deceptive vinyl treatment on the doors of his green '65 Impala; you'd swear it was carpet until you touched it. Made great sense. I also think this dashboard on these Studes was one of the most attractive of that period, looked very aircraft inspired. Studebakers always seemed, by the time I came along, to be more a car sold up north, though I did have an uncle here in TX with one of those bullet-nosed ones from the early 50's. Thanks for sharing and best wishes from the Houston/Galveston area!
Hi LoveIsAll from Houston/Galveston area!, Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Thank you for viewing, sharing, and you're welcome, Lou
My Dad had a Studebaker ('61 Hawk) when I was very young...drove to my Dad's Officer School in Alabama...from Maine. Steve has a beautiful orphan...Thanks Lou.
Hi CJ Design, Happy to read this car brings back memories of your Dads car :-) Thank you for viewing, sharing, and you're welcome, Lou
I love old Studebakers.
Happy to read "I love old Studebakers" :-)
Always enjoy the literature like the brochures, owners and shop manuals. A very rare car in excellent condition. Thanks Lou!
Happy to read you enjoy the literature :-) My pleasure sharing with you. You're welcome John!
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What a sharp 64 Daytona! Love the Color and the White Walls! Thank you both for sharing this Gem! 💤
Hi Chris, Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) You're welcome, Lou
Awesome looking car and very cool that sounds real good for such an old car
Hi Pete, Happy to read you enjoy the looks and sounds of this car :-) Lou
One of my Aunts had a 59 Studebaker Lark VI I think it was flathead 6 3 speed with overdrive I was a young child in the early 60's and barely remember it other than the color was Salmon .
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Very interesting the three different RPMs. They tested that motor at to establish its dependability and endurance was rather impressive. I had never heard that before any car manufacture.❤
Hi James, I found that interesting too. Thanks for viewing and sharing, Lou
Fantastic and beauty, not the usual GM or Ford or Mopar
Happy to read "Fantastic and beauty," :-)
wow I'm blown away because that was one of my dream cars growing up. always luved them. good find👍
Hi Fieroboy_86, Happy to share this "Dream car" with you :-) Lou
Another baby blue beauty from " baby lou". 😅 That car is awesome. Never seen one like that
Hi Big Hank, Happy to read "That car is awesome" :-) Glad to share a new one for you, Lou
What a cool and unique car! About as nice as it could possibly be! Almost too nice to take out on the streets!
Hi Craig, Happy to read you enjoy this car :-) Thanks for viewing and sharing, Lou
That beauty is all right (angles 😁)
Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-)
Growing up in the South Bend area, there were plenty of Studebakers around. My dad bought Fords in those days, and we tended to think the Studebakers were ugly, and those people that owned cars made by the Big Three call them stupid bakers. However, when we joked about them, someone who had some experience with a Studebaker would set us straight on them. Nowadays I would have a totally different opinion of them. They were a car ahead of it's time. If I could afford to be a collector, I would have at minimum three Studebakers, a Lark, a Hawk, and an Avanti. Maybe if they had continued to make cars through to today, I may have bought one or more for my daily driver.
Hi Daniel, Happy to read this car brings back memories of all the Studebakers in your town :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Always like stories on these cars. Even though they looked totally different I like the 1963 and 1964 Daytona equally. The 64 has very clean lines and is just the right size. I am a convertible guy too and like the old cars because the windshields were less angled, so you had a great view upward as well as around you with the top down.
Hi Allen, Happy to read you like stories like these :-) Lou
Hey Lou! Another car from my year of birth - a Studebaker, and a Daytona Convertible at that! The '64s are the best looking Studebakers, IMO. Even that year's Gran Tourismo Hawk was the neatest looking of all the Hawks that Studey ever made. This Daytona is a beauty!
A few fun facts I'd like to mention : Studebaker was the sponsor of the weekly television show "Mister Ed" with the talking horse. The name "Daytona" was later picked up by Dodge, and Studebaker offered a stripped-down model called "Challenger", and that, too, later became a Dodge model.
Studebaker moved production to Canada at the beginning of 1964. Two years later, the final Studebaker rolled off the assembly line, in Ontario. (One of its cars, the Avanti, continued in limited production, into the 1990s.)
Thanks again, Lou! I'll be looking for more, as I always do!
Hey Know Bodies Full! Happy to read you and this car sharing the same birth year :-) Glad to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Thank you for viewing, sharing, and you're welcome, Lou
What a great example of South Bend’s auto giant, Studebaker! With only two more years to live, this
‘64 Studie is a great road zipper ending a long, distinguished production run.
Happy to read you enjoy this "great example" :-)
My Mother had a Bullet Nose 50s something. Have seen pictures before my time though. Nice find.🇨🇦 A little off topic but something I didn't know to recently Pontiacs that were built here in Ontario had Chevy v8s,enjoy your channel.
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Rare catch thanks Lou
You're welcome acts2211 :-)
That’s a car you don’t see very often. Quite beautiful too, blue and convertible, that’s a killer combo to me. Greetings Lou.
Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Greetings César.
My Auntie loved Studebakers. I did get to see a few over the years and wish that they were still around. They cornered the small-car market but there wasn't much of one in the post-war years.
Hi Jed, Happy to read your Auntie loved Studebakers :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
My great uncle Jim was a car salesman in the 1960s. He died when I was very young. His wife, my grandmother's older sister and my first grade teacher (and my father's as well) lived for a long time afterward and we would visit her often. She had this odd doormat at her back door that I always admired because it had a stylized "S" on it, same as the hood ornament of this Daytona. Later I realized it was a Studebaker rear floor mat! I also remember 1964 Studebaker taxicabs in the city near my house. Very unusual cars and they lasted for years.
Hi Jonathan, Happy to read this car brings back memories of the door mat & the taxi too :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Very nice Studebaker! First time I have heard of the Daytona.
Extremely well preserved. Great Trunk and Treats.
Thanks Lou!
Hi Jeff, Happy to read you enjoy this "Extremely well preserved" car :-) You're welcome. Here is one more "Daytona" for you to enjoy, Lou th-cam.com/video/WGzZYIrkOxg/w-d-xo.html
O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G Car! I mean it looked and ran like new! I loved this video! Good choice, Lou! Thank you!
High praise Jon :-) You're welcome.
The last 1966 Studebaker Daytona is at The Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana.
Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful Studebaker Convertible....Beautiful color too ! Thanks for posting Lou!
Hi Rudy, Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) You're welcome, Lou
I don't know a lot about these crs, but I do like what I see. It looks great in blue inside/outside. Towards the end of the line for Studebaker. In two years it would be finished. Great brochure! I had no idea there were so many different models. Interesting dash board. Great sound! Nice rumble! Great car. Would be an asset to anyone's collection of collector cars.
Hi Brian, Happy to read you think this car "Would be an asset to anyone's collection of collector cars." :-) Lou
‘64 was the last year for the convertible and the hardtop. This one looks super sharp and the engine sounds like it can go another 60 years!
Hi Dr Akbar, Happy to read "this one looks sharp and the engine sounds like it can go another 60 years!" :-) Thank you for sharing, Lou
Im a rag top guy too! Cute car!! Unseal yes
Happy to share this "rag top" with you :-)
The 64s were such good looking cars, it is a shame they gave up on South Bend before the end of the model year.
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Back in the day guys who drove Studebakers would say, “Gettin’ moody in my Stoody!” 😂
Nice :-)
Never seen one in person. Really nice car and in such good condition. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Dave, My pleasure sharing this car with you. You're welcome, Lou
What a great find Lou! Love the color especially! You sure don’t see a lot of Studebakers although I’ve been fortunate to photograph 2 or 3 of them at car shows I’ve attended where I live in Florida.
Hi TumbleweedTommy, Happy to read you've seen some in FL :-) NICE! Lou
A few of these models were in our area....
Hi Iraqkingdom1921, Happy to read this car brings back memories of the cars in your area :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Most V8s are a 90degree. V6s are a 60 degree design. Except a few like 4.3 gm.
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Love the ‘64 Studes!!! This one is extra pretty. Great episode Lou!!!!
Hi Todd, Happy to read "Love the ‘64 Studes!!!" :-) Lou
A 1963 at the stock drags in Michigan with the r2 motor turned low 13s
Impressive.
Brass era (the car of 1905 1915 period, the beginning of car production) Studebaker was very fine and luxury cars, with price also of 5000 dollars of the time, like 150.000 / 200.000 dollars of today
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@@loucostabile Yes american brass era cars are my passion, I'm from Italy
Most people don't know how to properly pronounce Studebaker... It is actually pronounced Stewed---Becker according to the Studebaker family
Thank you for sharing.
After all these years, I've been mispronouncing "Studebaker"! Never knew that!
man now that is a beautiful car !
Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-)
Цікаве авто!Гарний двигун! Колір! Дякую!
Hi Сергій, Happy to read you enjoy the color and engine in this car :-) You're welcome, Lou
What a beaut! Love the engine option info. Might be as rare as my '65 Imperial Crown Coupe!?
Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Sounds like you have a great car too.
@@loucostabile You cannot beat a '66 Charger and a '65 Imperial. Two awesome and unique cars.
Sweet !!!!
:-)
They could make new cars like that but electric ...
....that would be interesting.
@@loucostabile there's a big market ..electric cars are in ...
They can't, everything has to be a misproportioned blob with rubber-band tires.
@@Pisti846 it's just the engine to be replaced ..there's plenty of old Volkswagen converted to electric cars ...there's even instructional vids how to convert ...
@@Pisti846 it's just the engine to be replaced ..there's plenty of old Volkswagen converted to electric cars ...there's even instructional vids how to convert ...
Great memories of a fun car! Thanks Lou.
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@@loucostabile already subscribed and ringing the bell.
Studebaker was considered a head of the curve back in day they just couldn’t compete with the big 3 they merged with Packer but it didn’t work out
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Yup
:-)
What a junk