Lucky enough to own one...mine was maroon....a really great car and super fast! Interior just terrific with gauges and lighting that are equal to the cars today.
Mine was a lot like that, only light green. Overdrive, Climatizer heater, Hill Holder, radio, starter buttonon the floor under the clutch pedal. Decent gas mileage....
I owned one of these. Maroon exterior, brown interior. 6 cylinder and a huge Philco radio. I bought it for $75, $25 down. The motor died three days later, so we agreed to skip the remaining $50 balance. I used it as an external living room for some time, listening to the big Philco.
Man this certainly bring back memories. I was born in 1951 they same year pop bought a 1951 Commander. Of course I have no memory of the car until 1955. I remember it well. I know you it was a 2 door with the v8 engine. I remember the interior well and always had to ride in the back seat.The indi$e of the car I remember just as in the video. It had full cover wheel covers with the emblem in the center. I think it had electric windshield wipers which were rare for the time.. We kept the car up to 1961.;This really got me thinking of my childhood and my memories from the times.Thank you so much for this video. PS. Our car was a off color blue.👍
I've bought exactly this Studebaker from the guy in England, who bougth the Commander from GR Auto Gallery. Now the Coupe's home is in germany. I'm so proud, that the car is unique in Europe.
1951 Studebaker introduced a new 232 cu in V8 engine and a Borg Warner DG200 2 speed automatic in the Commander models the 4 door models of the Commander are the Land Cruiser. as 1951 the front spinner is revised from the 1950 models. thr champion models then still had the flathead 6 engine with a manual transmission with overdrive then.
Except for the Packard Ultramatic available in 1956 Golden Hawk models, all Studebaker automatics had three-speed planetary gear sets. The Automatic Drive introduced in 1950 and used through 1954 was air-cooled and used a locking clutch as part of its torque converter, superseded by the less-expensive and less complicated three-speed Flight-O-Matic from '55 through the end of production in 1966. These started in second gear unless the driver selected low gear by the shifter. Not all four-door Commanders were Land Cruisers; the '47-'54 Land Cruiser was a stretch body with four inches extra rear leg room and were most easily recognized by the vent windows in the trailing end of the rear door glass. Three-speed sliding gear transmissions were standard in all post-war steel-body Studebakers (Avantis initially offered three-speeds with four speeds optional, or the three-speed B-W "PowerShift", but discontinued the three-speed early in the production run in favor of the four-speed), with overdrive available in all models except the Avanti. The hill holder (introduced in 1938) became standard in all manual transmission Commanders, Land Cruisers, and President models, and available as an option in all other models.
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Lucky enough to own one...mine was maroon....a really great car and super fast! Interior just terrific with gauges and lighting that are equal to the cars today.
Such a beautiful car. If I had to choose between this car and a brand new car of today I would choose the Studebaker.
Mine was a lot like that, only light green.
Overdrive, Climatizer heater, Hill Holder, radio, starter buttonon the floor under the clutch pedal. Decent gas mileage....
I owned one of these. Maroon exterior, brown interior. 6 cylinder and a huge Philco radio. I bought it for $75, $25 down. The motor died three days later, so we agreed to skip the remaining $50 balance. I used it as an external living room for some time, listening to the big Philco.
Man this certainly bring back memories. I was born in 1951 they same year pop bought a 1951 Commander. Of course I have no memory of the car until 1955. I remember it well. I know you it was a 2 door with the v8 engine. I remember the interior well and always had to ride in the back seat.The indi$e of the car I remember just as in the video. It had full cover wheel covers with the emblem in the center. I think it had electric windshield wipers which were rare for the time.. We kept the car up to 1961.;This really got me thinking of my childhood and my memories from the times.Thank you so much for this video. PS. Our car was a off color blue.👍
I've bought exactly this Studebaker from the guy in England, who bougth the Commander from GR Auto Gallery. Now the Coupe's home is in germany. I'm so proud, that the car is unique in Europe.
1951 Studebaker introduced a new 232 cu in V8 engine and a Borg Warner DG200 2 speed automatic in the Commander models the 4 door models of the Commander are the Land Cruiser. as 1951 the front spinner is revised from the 1950 models. thr champion models then still had the flathead 6 engine with a manual transmission with overdrive then.
Except for the Packard Ultramatic available in 1956 Golden Hawk models, all Studebaker automatics had three-speed planetary gear sets. The Automatic Drive introduced in 1950 and used through 1954 was air-cooled and used a locking clutch as part of its torque converter, superseded by the less-expensive and less complicated three-speed Flight-O-Matic from '55 through the end of production in 1966. These started in second gear unless the driver selected low gear by the shifter. Not all four-door Commanders were Land Cruisers; the '47-'54 Land Cruiser was a stretch body with four inches extra rear leg room and were most easily recognized by the vent windows in the trailing end of the rear door glass.
Three-speed sliding gear transmissions were standard in all post-war steel-body Studebakers (Avantis initially offered three-speeds with four speeds optional, or the three-speed B-W "PowerShift", but discontinued the three-speed early in the production run in favor of the four-speed), with overdrive available in all models except the Avanti. The hill holder (introduced in 1938) became standard in all manual transmission Commanders, Land Cruisers, and President models, and available as an option in all other models.
The car Fozzie Bear drove in THE MUPPET MOVIE
June 22, 1979
I owned one just like that
Mine was Rio Green. Overdrive, State trim level, radio shorted out, but what a car!
I was wondering, I’ve heard that Studebakers were rust buckets. Were they really worse than other brands? Did they use inferior metals?
Anyone here from the Muppet Movie?