Re: Cars you don't see many of anymore
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One of the old blokes i used to work with owns a 1961 studebaker hawk. Its still on normal rego, not historic plates or club rego. Its from memory a 4.2L v8, but the studes made their own motors so parts are rare as hens teeth for them. Last time i spoke to this bloke, nothing had changed, as in the car only got taken off the battery tender 3 times a year. Once for a wash, once for fuel, and once for a rego inspection.
Interesting things about that car are, from ramblings, apparently the temp sender is in the back of the block where its the point of highest coolent temps. Im no expert so ill take that, apparently most other motors put them elsewhere. And this bloke bought a used supercharger from a golden hawk. They were factory supercharged, blow through setup, encased the carby so no need to boost reference the carb. But being a 1000 year old centrifical supercharger, it was rooted. So no boost for him.
But still, factory right hand drive, they were kind of a dictors car like the saab 900 but in the 60's.
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