If you are a car fan with any kind of collection at all, you have a list. Actually, you have several: the first list is populated by cars you’d own if you had all the space and money in the world and the second contains cars you still plan to buy while your feet are on the right side of the terra firma. (None of this counts cars you already own, of course.) I’m wildly fortunate in that I have too many cars, but my list of cars I still want to own is down to four, and one of them is a Studebaker GT Hawk. There is one caveat; it can’t be painted white. So much for this one, but maybe it has a place on your list. Offered for sale on craigslist in Salem, Oregon, this ’62 Hawk is being listed with an asking price of $8,500, and Barn Finds reader Curvette thought enough of it to send it in for our appraisal.

There have been a surprising number of GT Hawks posted on the hallowed pages of Barn Finds, and because they’re one of my favorite cars, I’ve written about several of them. Therefore, at the risk of repeating myself, I’ll mention that although the Hawk looked perfectly up-to-date in 1962 for the most part, it couldn’t hide its long wheelbase, comparatively narrow width, and 1950s proportions; after all, it was based on the 1953 Studebaker coupes that are so well-loved by so many. Its chic squared off roofline and shorn fins modernized the look for a few moderately successful years, but 1962 sales of under 10,000 weren’t going to keep the lights on.

As one might expect, the Hawk’s engine was Studebaker’s 289, offered in either 210-horsepower two-barrel or 225-horsepower four-barrel states of tune. This example has a four barrel.

Most intriguingly, that four-barrel 289 is backed in this case by a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed manual, making for a sporting if not truly fast personal luxury coupe. Car Life tested a GT Hawk with this drivetrain and managed a fair 18.2-second quarter mile run at 75 miles per hour, which was not likely to scare the 327 Impala in the next lane, but this car was never really built to be a drag racer (although R-series supercharged engines were available). The seller says that their car “runs and drives” but “may need [a] new battery.” May? Still, the car appears to be in reasonably solid driver condition, but it will need some sprucing up. The front seats could use some new upholstery, and the lighting in the pictures makes it difficult to discern the true condition of the car. As always when contemplating a craigslist car, an in-person inspection is your best bet.

Whoever ordered this specific Hawk had top performance in mind, as the familiar “Twin-Traction” badge on the fuel filler door tells us that it was ordered with Studebaker’s limited-slip differential. If you feel the need to leave two stripes on the pavement in one of the classiest cars of the early 1960s, and you don’t mind the white paint and live in the Pacific Northwest region, this car might be the next on your list.