Old Cars Weekly – Car of the Week: 1953 Studebaker convertible

By Steve Hudson

{Editor’s Note: We went straight to the source for this week’s “Car of the Week”. We’ll let owner Steve Hudson tell the story in his own words of his unusual Studebaker}

The story of this 1953 Studebaker Commander convertible spans over 20 years and three different owners. It started about 1983 when Frank Forster of Portland, Ore., found himself in possession of a ’56 Studebaker Golden Hawk hardtop with a caved-in roof. He then made plans to correct one of Studebaker’s more significant oversights; namely, the failure to produce a convertible version of the stunningly beautiful 1953-’54 “Loewy/Bourke” coupe. Forster then added a ’64 Dodge Dart convertible and a ’53 Studebaker coupe to his collection, and, enlisting the aid of fabricator John Donaca, went to work.

via Old Cars Weekly – Car of the Week: 1953 Studebaker convertible.

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