Re: Wagon engines '57-'58

Posted by kens53clip On 2010/9/16 9:27:58

IIRC Studebaker tried the Packard V-8 in the 1956 Studebaker Hawk and the consensus was that it was too heavy for the car and adversely affected handling. So that might have been the result unless Stude steering and suspension hardware was appropriately beefed up to compensate. But even without changes other than the Packard engine and tranny it would have been a real straight line hauler for sure.
Ken