1955 Studebaker Speedster.

Very hard to find, from Texas/New Mexico/Arizona,
1955 Studebaker President Speedster, is all original except for older re upholstery and head liner.
can,t believe I am buying this car from my new friends, who are Studebaker Drivers Club members, Erwin really knows his stuff.
I am feeling so lucky!
Now I must get busy with a couple other projects so I can make some room in my shop to start babying the Speedster. Planning to start conservation and restoration May 2019
Thank you Ervin and Robyn Souder for allowing me to buy your beautiful car.
I am privileged to be the next caretaker and grateful for the trust the owners are giving to me.
Look for both of these cars at Peachland world of wheels 2019.
Fingers crossed....always....keep a good thought.

[@radarice2]

I had a boss when stationed in San Antonio back in 1963 who owned a Golden Hawk. He was a Major on his last assignment before retirement. His wife was a teacher in El Paso. On Fridays after work, he would get in his Hawk and drive to El Paso to be with his wife, returning on Sunday - almost every single week. It’s over a 550 mile trip - at the time the route was on a 3-lane highway. Texas did not have a speed limit then and he told me it took him a little over 5 hours to reach his destination. There were few stops on that highway stretch back then. In those days, only a Golden Hawk could sustain a constant high speed such as that.

[@wayneperry7077]

That's a great story, thanks for sharing !

[@Matt_from_Florida]

I knew a traveling doctor out West who would cruise at 120mph in his '64 Avanti.

[@jeffreypinder9398]

Back when cars were beautiful.

[@vitosanto3874]

Those Studebakers were beautiful.,I had a 53 Commander,and a 56 Silver Hawk.and my dad a 53 Champion.loved them all.

[@kevinbirge2130]

Best cars ever made.

[@Valor_73737]

My first car while in high school was a '53 Commander Coupe, the precursor to this '55 Speedster. The Speedster was the precursor to the Hawk line! My first new car was a '63 Gran Turismo Hawk with an Avanti engine option. It was capable of sustained 100 MPH cruising. I called 80 MPH its "Snooze Cruise". I owned it for 30 years, put 240,000 miles on it. Best car I ever owned. One of my major regrets is ever selling it in '93.

[@larryfromwisconsin9970]

My parents had a Studebaker just like that when I was a young child. They traded it because my mother didn't like driving a stick shift. Got a Ford and later a Chevy. But they often commented they wished they never traded the Studebaker.

[@exeuropean]

Love Studebakers; They are so underrated as a classic.

[@Masterchief68]

Good god that’s a beautiful car! I had a 57 silver hawk and a 58 golden hawk but these speedsters were great cars! That resto mod is just fantastic!

[@BuzzLOLOL]

The Chevy motor ruins it... an engine so ugly they had to cover it up with plastic covers so it wouldn't hurt peoples' eyes...

[@solracer66]

Thanks so much for posting this! When I was in college in the '80s my father bought a 1955 Studebaker President 2-door hardtop in black and silver that was gorgeous! It was very similar to the Speedster but it had a little less chrome and the standard dashboard. Dad even let me take it over the mountains to college for a few weeks where it really stood out in our small college town. When I heard the door close in the video it suddenly evoked so many memories of that cool old car. Thanks again!

[@966396631]

That’s as good as any chrome design I’ve seen on any car. What a timeless work of art.

[@daDurvis]

I was two when my dad bought a new 55, V-8, three on the tree with OD, right off the show room floor, then he took it right to the drag strip, somewhere in the Baltimore area, drag raced it for a while, moved back to Mass, drove it for about ten years, accumulated about 3 hundred thousand on it and decided time for a trade in. He always thought of cars back then as just transportation, but I know he missed that one when it went gone.

[@keithmcpike7224]

Getting ready to restore mine that I have owned since I was 18. Has been in my friends garage for the last 40 years, prior to that, I had stored it. Originally a salmon pink/grey color scheme, but had been repainted to black/white. Have added gobs of NOS trim/engine parts throughout the years. Car is completely straight, and no rust, (it's in CA), with a little bondo on the trunk lid, but I have a perfect trunk lid off a 55 President. Can't wait to get it on the road.

[@BuzzLOLOL]

Please keep the Studebaker engine in... hop it up, but keep it...

[@lloydthomas2782]

I had a 56 Skyhawk. Beautiful gold metal flake colour. My favourite car that I've ever owned.

[@williamfairchild8119]

I had a 1953 like this x show car even had rolled and pleated wheel wells Paid 100 for it a beautiful ahead of it's time body good looking car. Unfortunately the motor blew on the way to school 1965 Took the tag and left it on the side of the road and never went back

[@michaeltipton5500]

Wow I would love to go for a ride in either. My neighbor next door to us growing up has a Studebaker Lark and Hawk.

[@rondye9398]

My task is to finish the restoration on a 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk. The P.O. passed after it was started. A very unique car in Azure Blue Metallic with White fins, stick shift overdrive. Fortunately no rust.

[@wayneperry7077]

Sounds like a great find. Got my eye on a 62 Gran Turismo, a pile of parts but straight and rust free....fingers crossed.

[@frankyancy1347]

Had a 55 commander, great cars, still stylish.

[@iplaymytele]

When I was a teenager I had a 57 golden hawk Studebaker three speed on the tree with a manual overdrive….!

[@danqodusk8140]

Sweet car, love the Speedster name!

[@luvsilly60]

Beautiful

[@davidroberts9371]

A coworker Carl Purty , Keystone,Oklahoma . He had a 49 truck and a sedan

[@merlemorrison482]

Years ago I bought one of these wrecked,and transplants red the engine into my 1953 pick up.

[@opera93]

Thanks… interestingly, Dry States driving’s , great Condition…. & Studebakers.

[@BIGBADWOOD]

NICE

[@michaelcallahan5358]

My Grandfather owned a 1955 President V8 ,beautiful car!

[@grahamlister5378]

Non standard front bumper ? Improves the sleek lines.

[@DSRQ1]

A gorgeous and timeless design. Looks as good today as 1955.

[@patriotsforactionthomaslan5996]

Hey! Just awesome. I have a speedster. Rested. SBC out of a 'vette. It was gray and pearl before it was painted. Glad we're saving 'em from the scrap yard got a 55 Packard custom clipper, too. All original except for paint.

[@dwightbleiler7693]

awesome car my Elementary School teacher bought one new in 55

[@lilchopstixz2161]

Well good for them, people didn’t buy studebakers by then

[@musicman3158]

Beautiful car.

[@johnfleming7879]

my first car was a 55 President w. 259 VA 2 bbl Carter, 3 spd Borg Warner auto.I think I got it to 114 mph- it was fun, but subject to brake fade

[@gmc0422]

If I'm not mistaken, that is one of the classic Raymond Loewy designed cars. Gorgeous car! Sounds pretty wonderful.

[@dancostello6465]

Nice car dude.

[@4284gordon]

It sure is! Still working on the preservation. Just a one day job... One day I will get it done..

[@KennethSloan]

Studerbaker designed some very beautiful cars. It's too bad it wasn't big enough to compete with the big three.

[@swedishmansion8262]

Nice car

[@tipeneuriti5489]

Great Studebaker hi Kiaora from new Zealand,a Kool car was a Studebaker Hawke racing at Christchurch in the 60s up against a mercury cyclone 390 I think and he beat Peter Knight famous jet boat steerer of new Zealand,it out was handling all cars except a early mustang 🐎 was awesome

[@jamesrichard9722]

Seat belts added; naturally

[@joseantoniomartinsdovale4856]

lovely car

[@nunyabizness199]

Nice car Erwin, Id certainly like to own it..

[@MajTom-wd2yt]

Dad loved Studebakers. We had four during my teenage years. I learned to drive on a 53 Commander V8 stick shift. Never forgot that car. He even let me cool it up. 3" lowering blocks, spun aluminum Bonneville moon hubcaps, glasspac duel exhaust, 3 on the floor and of course the Black DiceI in the windshield.I only had my learners permit at the time, but boy that car was fun. I still have those Dice...wish I had that car to put them in. The last Stude I remember was a 56 Golden Hawk with the Packard V/8 that he bought for 'Mom'. My brother and I new better though, the grin on his face when he brought it home gave him away. Aluminum engine turned dash with Stewart Warner gauges, Golden & Cream two-tone paint, it was one cool ride.... Just time for me to be the head of the "crew." Me with my 200ft one wheel burnouts. I still consider to be it the first muscle car, that ride was a HOOT.

[@pltanner2981]

there used to be one of the presidents in midland Texas. it disappeared after 1990ish. was off of midriff.

[@marvinmartin4692]

Why does the 1955 look so much more modern than the 60’s Studebakers? I just can’t figure out why they went backwards? In the styling?

[@BuzzLOLOL]

They were 'competing' stylingwise... should have just done their own thing...

[@realprogressnews-theterrya8159]

Amazing how far ahead Studebaker was in the area of design, beautiful.... Low and sleek, did they have European influence?

[@tedwalker1370]

I think Studebaker was sticking it's tongue out at the rest of the auto industry with that grill. LOL

[@jerrycallender9927]

One of the rarest of mid-1950's cars, which had a stunning interior. This replacement interior is a disgrace!

[@BuzzLOLOL]

So is the ugly Chevy engine... hidden under plastic covers... and changed instrument panel...

[@4284gordon]

Whose money are you spending, save your trash talk. what give you the right?

[@caribman10]

Studebaker inadvertently created the best repository for a Chevrolet small-block ever with the Starlite and all its offspring.

[@BuzzLOLOL]

Studebakers are ruined without a Studebaker engine... and without original gauges...

[@shawnbarry3893]

Nice Studebaker's

[@FennixGamingYT]

That car is smoking a bit from the left exhaust, might want to check compression

[@4284gordon]

That is because these old cars use exhaust crossover under the carb to heat up the intake manifold and carb when running cold start. A coiled bi metal spring closes a flapper gate on the right exhaust bank directing hot exhaust thru a passage in the intake manifold under the carb. As the car heats up the bi metal spring uncoils and it opens the gate allowing exhaust out both tailpipes and the carb cools down. The white smoke was mostly water condensation. I did rebuild the engine a year later. It was worn out at 128,000 miles. No broken rings..

[@georgie5700]

Smokey af

[@randypolizzi107]

I don’t see any air-conditioning?

[@HarborLockRoad]

And all i want is a bottom of the line 4dr champion, but cant afford it....

[@donalddesnoo5303]

The passmaster 259 engines were better than the earlier v8s had a 51conv with a55 engine.

[@analogman9697]

Do owners have to machine their own replacement parts?

[@donalddonald8706]

Nice car , but I smokes like a train.

[@h.p.oliver8666]

"Original patina?" And we wonder why our kids can hardly speak a complete sentence.

[@jeffsutton6353]

"original patina" LOL

[@4284gordon]

Patina from age, not from a phony paint treatment.

[@tandem8]

Please do not use the term MOTOR. Chevrolet does not call it a MOTOR in ANY manual It is an ENGINE

[@mikedrown2721]

Motors are electric internal combustion and steam are engines

[@BuzzLOLOL]

Chevy's come from The Motor City !!!