Studebaker’s Avanti: America’s Most Advanced Automobile
Aug 09, 2022
Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 1:30pm in the Wiekamp Auditorium;
$2 admission / FREE to Studebaker National Museum members & Campus members, refreshments to follow
Studebaker National Museum Archivist Andrew Beckman will take an in-depth look at America’s Most Advanced Automobile, the S...
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2022 Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm Announces Winners
Jul 12, 2022
SOUTH BEND, IN – The 2022 Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm is pleased to announce this year’s award winners. Competition was extremely tight, drawing entrants from more than thirteen states. Capturing Best Of Show was a 1936 Packard Super Eight, owned by Allen & Nancy Strong, from Urban...
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Chicago’s Historic Motor Row District: 1905-1936
Jul 11, 2022
Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at 1:30pm in the Wiekamp Auditorium;
$2 admission / FREE to Studebaker National Museum members & Campus members, refreshments to follow
Chicago’s Historic Motor Row District, is home to the largest, intact, early “motor colony” in the United States. Prima...
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The Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm To Showcase a Stainless Steel-bodied 1936 Ford
Jul 05, 2022
SOUTH BEND, IN – The Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm will showcase a stainless steel-bodied 1936 Ford Deluxe Tudor Touring Sedan, courtesy of the Early Ford V-8 Museum in Auburn, Indiana. This car is one of six stainless steel-bodied 1936 Fords built by Allegheny Steel to promote the many uses...
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Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm To Feature First & Last Studebaker Avantis
Jul 01, 2022
[caption id="attachment_9375" align="alignleft" width="300"] First Studebaker Avant #1001[/caption]
The first and last Studebaker Avantis produced will be on display at the 2022 Concours d’Elegance at Copshaholm to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Studebaker Avanti’s debut. Avanti ch...
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The Great Race Comes to South Bend
Jun 15, 2022
South Bend, IN— Over 150 automobiles participating in the Great Race, the world’s premiere vintage car rally, will arrive at the Studebaker National Museum and The History Museum on Wednesday, June 22, where the museums serve as a lunch checkpoint on the 2022 Hemmings Motor News Great Race, pr...
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1934 Chrysler Airflow
May 12, 2022
Walter Chrysler was known for his willingness to push the envelope of innovation, and his company’s 1934 Airflow was no exception. Chrysler engineer Carl Breer styled the radical body shape through the use of a wind tunnel. Breer’s colleague, Fred Zeder, created an early ‘unibody’ design con...
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Packard
Apr 22, 2022
In 1899, brothers James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard built the first Packard automobile in their native Warren, Ohio. In 1900, they formed the Ohio Automobile Company in partnership with George Weiss, which was soon renamed the Packard Motor Car Company and moved to Detroit, Michigan. The c...
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The Avanti: America’s Most Advanced Automobile
Apr 04, 2022
The Studebaker Avanti was one of the industry’s most imaginative and sensational vehicles. For the Avanti’s 60th anniversary, the Museum will explore the Avanti’s improbable origin story and its place in the 1963 automotive landscape. The exhibit will look at contemporary reviews and road test...
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1941 Studebaker Coupe-Delivery
Feb 28, 2022
Studebaker offered the Coupe-Delivery version of the Champion beginning with that model’s 1939 debut. A small pickup box was substituted for the Champion’s trunk lid to create a quarter-ton pickup truck. Aside from the pickup box, the Coupe Delivery was identical to a Champion Coupe - no heavy-d...
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