1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk

The Studebaker Golden Hawk is a two-door pillarless hardtop personal luxury car produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, between 1956 and 1958.

Studebaker’s Golden Hawk was a performance themed version of their standard Hawk Coupe, a personal luxury high-performance GT car from America. The styling was essentially an evolution of the earlier Raymond Loewy designed cars from 1953, the Studebaker Starlight and Starliner, with a raised hood and a large egg crate grille at the nose, and more prominent tailfins at the rear in keeping with the times.

The second-to-last vehicle to have its design influenced by infamous industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, the Golden Hawk began as a 1955 Studebaker Starliner, but was given a vertical eggcrate grille, raised hood line, pointed nose, raised and squared-off trunk lid, and fiberglass tailfins. The dimensions of the hood changed in order to fit a Packard V8, but today’s example, the Golden Hawk, has a different engine. This Golden Hawk comes equipped with a 289-cu in. 4.7L V8 mated to a McCulloch supercharger. This new powerplant created the same amount of power as the Packard engine, 275hp, but was significantly lighter.

This Golden Hawk has been restored and was a very solid car. All original body panels, original and solid floors, this was a warm climate car for sure. The car has been painted in the correct Gold. The chrome has been triple chrome plated. The car has new dual exhaust system. The car rides on WWW radial tires that give an excellent ride. The interior has been restored to exact original specs and looks neat and clean.

Just 51 1957 Golden Hawk were built – 10 show cars, and 41 regular production examples. Just a handful of Studebaker Golden Hawk are known to survive.