Studebaker Flight Hawk

The Studebaker Flight Hawk was the lowest-priced model in the four-car Hawk sports coupe line that Studebaker offered in 1956, alongside the Golden Hawk, Sky Hawk and Power Hawk. It came from a Raymond Loewy design and was based on the Champion two-door coupe introduced for the 1953 model year, with a new hood, grille, deck lid and instrument panel and the least exterior chrome of the four. Where the other Hawks used V8 engines, the Flight Hawk kept the Champion 185.6 cubic inch inline six making 101 horsepower, with a three-speed manual gearbox, an optional overdrive or the Flight-O-Matic automatic. The main body was a two-door pillared coupe listed at 1,986 dollars, and 560 hardtops were built mostly for export and Canada, bringing 1956 production to 4,949, second only to the Power Hawk. The Flight, Power and Sky Hawks were merged into the Silver Hawk for 1957, and only 33 of the coupes were known to survive as of 2024.