Studebaker Flight Hawk

The Studebaker Flight Hawk was the cheapest model of the Hawk family, a sports car series, which was introduced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend (Indiana) in 1956.

Styling

The Flight Hawk is based on the 2-door coupe Champion, which was introduced in model year 1953. Like the other 1956 Hawk got the Flight Hawk a new bonnet, a new radiator grille, a new decklid and a new dashboard. The Flight Hawk had the fewest chrome trim outside and got axle caps, if not great hubcaps were ordered as an option.

Drive

Contrary to all other Hawks were powered exclusively by V8 engines, the Flight Hawk had the 3.0 liter - inline six-cylinder engine of the champion who (75 kW) made ​​101 bhp. With this engine, there was either a manual three-speed transmission, a three-speed transmission with overdrive or a three-step automatic (also known as Flight -O -Matic ).

Different models

The Flight Hawk, there was a 2- door coupe with B-pillars (model 56G - C3) for the price of 1.986, - U.S. $. For Canada and other export markets Studebaker also provided a hardtop coupe with no B-pillars (model 56G -K7 ). Only nine of the 560 hardtop coupes were sold in the U.S., where her ex-factory price is not known.

Production figures

  • Coupe, Model 56G - C3: 4,389 pieces in total, spread over the following works: 2,508 pieces from South Bend
  • 557 piece from Los Angeles
  • 584 Units in Hamilton ( Ontario)
  • 740 pcs Export
  • Hardtop, Model 56G - K7: 560 pieces in total, spread over the following works: 9 pieces from South Bend
  • 52 pieces from Hamilton ( Ontario)
  • 499 Units export

Of the four Hawk models available in 1956 the Flight Hawk was the second most georderte. The Power Hawk led with 7,095 copies, by far the sale.

Only one year

Studebaker decided to streamline the Hawk family in 1957. This meant the end for the models Flight Hawk, Power Hawk and Sky Hawk, all of which were replaced by the new Silver Hawk.

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