The Gran Turismo Hawk was the final variant of the Studebaker Hawk that began in 1956. The GT Hawks were produced from 1962 to 1964 until the company transferred all automobile production to Canada. Cars not making the shift were the GT Hawk and the Avanti, both low in demand. The seller has a 1962 version of the GT Hawk, which has had a lot of work done to it, but it’s not quite ready for the road again. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this project is available here on eBay, where no one has cast the first bid of $5,000 — yet.
Studebaker refined the GT Hawk over the previous Hawk. The tailfins were gone, the roofline was formal (like the Ford T-Bird), and the upright grille resembled that of a Mercedes. It was a classy car that should have caught on, but it was Studebaker who was woefully underfunded. Less than 15,000 GT Hawks were produced before the end of calendar 1963, and more than half of them were built in 1962, along with the seller’s car. A 289 cubic inch V8 provided propulsion, with or without a supercharger (this car doesn’t seem to have had one).
We don’t know much about this car before the seller. He/she has done a lot of work on it, or perhaps those things were done under a prior owner’s care. Some of the items checked off on the to-do list include the cylinder heads, freeze plugs, water pump, carburetor, fuel pump, radiator, and new engine gaskets and seals. As a result of all of this, the seller says the car runs well, though it seems to be shy about venturing out. Maybe that’s because the brakes are bad and haven’t been addressed.
The seller doesn’t go into anything about the car’s cosmetic health. Perhaps because it spent a lot of its time in California, corrosion isn’t a big factor, and the paint seems okay. What we can see of the interior shows that it’s worn and needs some TLC. The seller is sending along a new factory air conditioning system for the buyer to install. BTW, did we mention the car has a 4-speed manual transmission and Twin Traction?
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