Studebaker and Nash Cars in India

[V-16]

Originally Posted by IndrojitSircar

These are some pics of my father's earlier strudebaker president.

Small world out there. This is my Ex car.
Indorjit, we have a common link somewhere. I was one of the owners of the car in Bombay.

We had sold the car to an australia gentlemen who wanted to take it back to australia but couldn't because of the export laws and then it was in mumbai for many years.....

I used to see this car parked on the footpath outside my friend's building at Malabar Hill for a long period. It was cleaned and wiped regularly and hardly moved. On enquiring i ws told it belonged to a foreigner and was not for sale.

Then one day it disappeared. I was told it has gone to the Garage. Within a few days, another friend of mine called me to ask if i was interested in a Black and Gold Studebaker President with West Bengal plates. I went and picked the car up within half an hour. It ran perfectly but missed a beat. I noticed that there was constant oil on the plugs. Decided to get the majestic car a rewamp.

My car was black and gold.....
......WBE 4429.......My gold and black was not that a good runner and so is this green one.rated

The V8 engine was not too good as Indrojit mentioned but the car was otherwise mechanically sound. Overhauled the engine with brand new new pistons and rings which i found locally and it was purring away. The engine was soundless and packed a punch. A pleasure to drive especially looking at the eyeball speedo.

The car remained with me for a few years till i had to take a decision and sell it to another friend for want of another classic. The car languished with the owner for a while till it deteriorated to a very great extent. It again changed hands and i was told that it was sold off somewhere to another collector...probably Indore.

Its great to hear that it was finally resurrected.

Indrojit thanks for posting the pics of the car. This is one of my cars whose pics i dont have. Can i please request you to also post/email me more pics of the car when it was Black and Gold? It will be a huge favour. Thanks!!

Nostalgia Nostalgia!!!

[Caddy]

Originally Posted by IndrojitSircar

These are some pics of my father's earlier strudebaker president.

Hi All, In this car posted by Indrojitsircar do we see Venetian blinds on the rear windscreen? It does add a 'period' look to a car and I have seen it in many classics. Any idea whether this can be replicated in this day and age? any sources in Bombay?

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by V-16

Small world out there. This is my Ex car.
Indorjit, we have a common link somewhere. I was one of the owners of the car in Bombay.



I used to see this car parked on the footpath outside my friend's building at Malabar Hill for a long period. It was cleaned and wiped regularly and hardly moved. On enquiring i ws told it belonged to a foreigner and was not for sale.

Then one day it disappeared. I was told it has gone to the Garage. Within a few days, another friend of mine called me to ask if i was interested in a Black and Gold Studebaker President with West Bengal plates. I went and picked the car up within half an hour. It ran perfectly but missed a beat. I noticed that there was constant oil on the plugs. Decided to get the majestic car a rewamp.




The V8 engine was not too good as Indrojit mentioned but the car was otherwise mechanically sound. Overhauled the engine with brand new new pistons and rings which i found locally and it was purring away. The engine was soundless and packed a punch. A pleasure to drive especially looking at the eyeball speedo.

The car remained with me for a few years till i had to take a decision and sell it to another friend for want of another classic. The car languished with the owner for a while till it deteriorated to a very great extent. It again changed hands and i was told that it was sold off somewhere to another collector...probably Indore.

Its great to hear that it was finally resurrected.

Indrojit thanks for posting the pics of the car. This is one of my cars whose pics i dont have. Can i please request you to also post/email me more pics of the car when it was Black and Gold? It will be a huge favour. Thanks!!

Nostalgia Nostalgia!!!

Gogi ji

Nice to hear that even you were once an owner of this car.I have a pci of the car taken sometime earlier this year from another thread of t-bhp and i will post it here.Do you recall the rear seat arm rest and the black roof of this car?I have very fond memories of sitting on that arm rest and goping in this car.I simply loved this car but duie to un avoidable circumstances we had to part ewith her.I have some more pics of when we bought her and after restoration.
My father is a complete studebaker lover and my grand father owned commander which my father used to drive from when he was 13 years old.Since then the tradition of a strudebaker has been going on.After that commander we got WBE 4429 and then as i mentioned we had to part with her.Now my father has picked up another presifdent WBE 3328 which is a awesome runner and will be restored next after the golden hawk and the mercedes are done.
When i saw this car here on T-BHP i remembered the number and that time mr ranjit mallik was told to be the owner and He was down in calcutta for seing the work done on his jaguar mark VII.So i asked my father to ask him and he said that he had bought this car painted it silver and taken in all the way upto kasuani.
-if i may ask how much did u get her or and how much did u get to part with her?

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by AHK500

Hi!

Does anybody know if the car still exists? I have heard aboutt his car from a school friend who llived in Poona and it is lovely to see that it still existed a few years ago.

Originally Posted by harit

Must be the Golden Hawk from Pune. AHK500, please clarify. Are the cars mentioned in your profile all in India?

Cheers harit

If you are reffering to the Pune golden hawk then it still does exist and is for sale for an exorbident price.You could see the pics of this car on the first page of this thread.

Originally Posted by Caddy

Hi All, In this car posted by Indrojitsircar do we see Venetian blinds on the rear windscreen? It does add a 'period' look to a car and I have seen it in many classics. Any idea whether this can be replicated in this day and age? any sources in Bombay?

Hi caddy

The blinds which you are reffering to were as you said after market period accesories.I would say that it would be difficult to find these in india but not difficult to find them abroad there you would get them second hand.Don't know about bombay,people from there might be able to help you out.

[AHK500]

Hi Harit!

Sadly none of my cars are in India as the import duties would bankrupt me several times over! But I would love to have a car in India and the Golden Hawk would be a great start.

To think that the car was so close to me all the years I was in school in Poona & to come across it now is, I hope, destiny!

Any help you can render in contacting the owner would be much appreciated!

Myn Father also had a 1951 Champion, a blue 4 door sedan that we sold in 1967. It was registered in Bombay as BML 8117. Anybody know what became of that car?

I am not too technically savvy with this aspect of computers but when I get time, I will upload a few photos.

Thanks!

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by AHK500

Sadly none of my cars are in India as the import duties would bankrupt me several times over! But I would love to have a car in India and the Golden Hawk would be a great start.

To think that the car was so close to me all the years I was in school in Poona & to come across it now is, I hope, destiny!

Any help you can render in contacting the owner would be much appreciated!

Hi AKH500

The Golden hawk in pune is for sale a very high price for which it is not worth.The owner wants something close to 80-90lacs for that car.That car is very well kept i must say.But the front windshield of that car is cracked.You can always import one but you know there are high chances of damage.If you are still interested some members from pune could help you or otherwise a uncle of mine knows him so you could mayb go through him if you like.

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by AHK500

Myn Father also had a 1951 Champion, a blue 4 door sedan that we sold in 1967. It was registered in Bombay as BML 8117. Anybody know what became of that car?

Can't say I remember 8117, but BML 8118 is a black 57 Fiat 1100 regularly seen on the road in Bombay

You could add it to the list here, she may turn up some day.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vintag...-classics.html (Where is it now? - Lost & Found Classics)

If you dig up any old photos of the Studey, do put them up here

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vintag...ly-s-cars.html (Nostalgic pictures of our family's cars)

[karlosdeville]

This early Studebaker participated it the Amby Valley rally to Lonavala some years back.

[harit]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

This early Studebaker participated it the Amby Valley rally to Lonavala some years back.

This Studebaker belongs to a collector in Lonavalla. He is a memeber and could give us more history of the car.
This car had participated in an event in Australia, hence that sticker on the door.

Cheers harit

[harit]

Attached please see the Studebaker monogram of an earlier pre 1920 car. Now the car has to emerge.

Cheers harit

[john a milne]

Originally Posted by AHK500

Hi Harit!

Sadly none of my cars are in India as the import duties would bankrupt me several times over! But I would love to have a car in India and the Golden Hawk would be a great start.


I am not too technically savvy with this aspect of computers but when I get time, I will upload a few photos.

Thanks!

Manny,
I had posted a photo of your Studebaker and Chev on posting #88.
I am posting on your behalf these great photos of your 53 Studebaker that I consider one of the finest looking American Classics.
What car show did you attend and was it judged?

[the mole]

Originally Posted by john a milne

Manny,
I had posted a photo of your Studebaker and Chev on posting #88.
I am posting on your behalf these great photos of your 53 Studebaker that I consider one of the finest looking American Classics.
What car show did you attend and was it judged?

Isnt this what they call a Studebaker Speedster which only came for one year in 1956?

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by the mole

Isnt this what they call a Studebaker Speedster which only came for one year in 1956?

Amol this is a 1953 car because the car you are talking about is a 1955 car which if you remember you had posted a picture of a 1955 studebaker president that car was a speedster.The speedster was the first step towards the sporty car, and the forerunner to the memorable Hawks The most expensive offering in this year's revived top-line President series, this two-door hardtop featured a special interior with quilted-pattern leather and vinyl upholstery and a full complement of white-on-black instruments set into a dash with a tooled-metal appliqué.A high-performance rendition of the Studebaker small-block V-8, now bored out to 259.2 cid, was standard on the 1955 Studebaker President Speedster. The midyear Speedsters shared the heavy, more chrome-laden "fish-lip" front-end styling adopted for '55 across the line.The 1955 Studebaker speedster and the 1956 Golden Hawk had a similar body sturucture
with minor differences in the body like the bonnet and grill but the trunk(boot) shape is different.Apart from this the golden hawk came with more trims on it and had the Big 352 cu.in engine.Have attached some pictures below.


The car shown above is i think a Champion Regal(or regal delux) or a Commander regal(regal delux).I am attaching a 1953 body style identification sheet below which may help us to furthur identify this car.

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by V-16

Its great to hear that it was finally resurrected.

Indrojit thanks for posting the pics of the car. This is one of my cars whose pics i dont have. Can i please request you to also post/email me more pics of the car when it was Black and Gold? It will be a huge favour. Thanks!!

Nostalgia Nostalgia!!!

Gogi ji as per what i had promised you i found a few pictures and i have scanned them and i am uploading them here please do comment on it.If the engine and interiors were the same when you got the car or was it changed before or by you.Would love to hear from you about this car.I am uploading a picture of when the car came to us parked in a garage in our house before restoration.

[IndrojitSircar]

Mods-Please merge this thread with the other Studebaker and nash cars in india thread to keep all the records in place.