Folks Of Interest The 1965 Studebaker Wagonaire Is Cool

Brooks Stevens along with Raymond Loewy
formed The Industrial Designers Society
in 1944 that influenced futuristic design.
Brooks designed the Studebaker Wagonaire
and the Grand Turismo Hawk.
About 20,000 Studebaker Wagonaires
were built in Canada and sold between
1963 and 1965.
Designed as a utility vehicle,
the radical style never caught on.

This one was donated to NATMUS and
brought back to running order by the
students who work in the basement
auto shop under the direct supervision of mentors skilled in the trades.

Once it was back in running order it was sold to a museum visitor who inquired about it.





Jim

 

Thanks for sharing that and the trip down memory lane. I remember seeing ads for them on TV way back then and wondered why more people didn’t buy them.

 

How often do you move a refrigerator?

 

I can recall only ever seeing one other International Harvester refrigerator. It was many years ago in a friend's garage. The Binder Fridge had been brush painted metallic gold, with a hole bored in the door to mount a tapper spout. His dad liked to keep an 8 gallon keg of Michelob in it for "emergency" purposes.

 

As a teen We had a '64 Lark wagon with the sliding roof and a 259 engine. Dad machined the 2 barrel intake to allow a 4bbl to fit. Worked great! We used it to haul 55 gal burn barrels to the dump and other things. Sweet car.

Dave

 

Here is a short YouTube video
that I uploaded to my channel …

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Jim

 

Sweet Wagonaire! To clarify, the first ones ('63-'64) were built in South Bend Indiana with Studebaker engines, the later '65-'66 Canadian built Lark types had Mckinnon Chevy power.

 

Kind of ironic, Steve Magnante just did a junk yard crawl about this