The Beautiful Studebaker That Was Never Supposed To Exist
King of Classic Cars
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In 1953, a broke automaker from South Bend built the only American car good enough for the Museum of Modern Art, then watched its own factory destroy it from the inside out.
The Studebaker Commander Starliner started as a one-off show car designer Bob Bourke never expected to sell. The board changed their minds in thirty minutes and put it straight into production. What followed was one of the strangest rides in American car history, a design good enough for Time Magazine and MoMA, built on a frame so soft it sometimes couldn't open its own doors.
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The Beautiful Studebaker That Was Never Supposed To Exist
King of Classic Cars
5,169 views
In 1953, a broke automaker from South Bend built the only American car good enough for the Museum of Modern Art, then watched its own factory destroy it from the inside out.
The Studebaker Commander Starliner started as a one-off show car designer Bob Bourke never expected to sell. The board changed their minds in thirty minutes and put it straight into production. What followed was one of the strangest rides in American car history, a design good enough for Time Magazine and MoMA, built on a frame so soft it sometimes couldn't open its own doors.