Very cool car! That was my father's first car. He kept it for quite sometime; I remember it as a kid...

That led to the first car I picked out and paid for myself, an 87 Honda CRX Si. Was fast as hell. Week after I got it, I got a ticket for going 105 in a 55 zone. Cop told me when he first clocked me, I was going 125 before I hit the brakes. Since he knew my dad, he locked it in at 105 and pulled me over for speeding and drag racing.

That car got wrecked in 2000. While i was in college, I was driving along a 35 mph road and a lady turned left right in front of me. Hit her going 35 and boned the CRX. Wish that I still had that car.

J

Well, the car had some scratches after that.

No laughing here. My father bought one new and drove it for years, same '57 Golden. I still remember going down I-75 in south Georgia the day it broke 100,000 and Salty rolled it up to over 100mph... just because. Earlier on this thread I said my first car was a 53 Studebaker Transtar pickup. My second was a '59 Silver Hawk which I drove until 1984. Solid cars!

The quickest I had mine was on the NJ Parkway at 2AM, I ran it to 121. The scary part is, that it was still accelerating when I saw another car in front of me and took my foot off the gas pedal.

Love'em, may be a re-post, but I still wish I had the old clunker my Dad sold in the early 70's. It was a few years older.

Yeah, as Salty said, they'd run like a scalded dog. More Studebaker side story, as the Golden Hawk was aging Salty picked up another Golden to scavenge for parts. This would have been '73 or so in Macon, GA. Anyway, I was in the Navy at the time and noticed the derelict Hawk sitting on blocks out behind his shop. In the glove compartment I found several bits of old registration papers for that vehicle and a couple of others which were quite interesting. All registrations were to either Gregg or Duane Allman with one of them being registration from Florida DMV for a moped to Duane. I've always thought he shoulda stuck with that moped.🌫