Studebaker Transtar

Transtar was the name that the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, gave to a line of trucks built from 1956 to 1958 and again from 1960 to 1963, although the last vehicles were sold as 1964 models. The name was used on most trucks of the Studebaker E-series but not all. It was introduced for the 1956 2E series in half-ton, three-quarter-ton, one-ton, two-ton and heavy-duty two-ton capacities, the three smaller ones available with factory-built pickup bodies, in a style that dated back to 1949. The 1957 and 1958 trucks gained an aggressive new fiberglass grille, and a stripped-down Scotsman truck without the Transtar name appeared in 1958. The name was replaced by Deluxe for 1959, then returned for 1960 on the medium and heavy one-ton and two-ton trucks while the lighter ones became the Champ. Studebaker suspended truck production when it closed its United States factory in December 1963.