Studebaker Conestoga

The Studebaker Conestoga was an all-steel station wagon built in 1954 and 1955 by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The company took the name as an homage to the wagon business it had run from the 1850s into the early twentieth century. It was built on Studebaker 116.5 inch wheelbase platform as a single two-door body with a two-piece tailgate and liftgate for the cargo area, and the 1954 car listed at 2,095 dollars with 3,074 produced. An ambulance version called the Ambulet, with a stretcher and red cross decals, was promoted mainly to police and fire departments and to small-town funeral homes. The Conestoga name ended with the 1955 model year, but the basic body continued through several styling changes, and was even built as a Lark compact, through 1961.