Kvach;
I had a '57 Golden Hawk for a while; it was basically the Loewy '53 coupe
with a different grill, tailfins, and a McCulloch centrifugal supercharger
on its 289 V-8. It looked great, had nice Stewart- Warner gauges in an
engine- turned dash, and was one of the first cars to come with factory-
installed seat belts.
At high speeds, it was fairly scarey--- it had lots of front- end lift (due
to it's new front grill shape?) that made it a handfull and its drum
brakes/organic linings were sub- marginal. The "monkey-motion" steering
linkage didn't help, either.
All- in- all, the '57 Golden Hawk was a good effort but it fell a bit short
of being what it was intended to be. The '58 had an unsupercharged Packard
V-8 instead of the lighter Studebaker V-8 and as one magazine put it, "it
had the weight distribution of a blackjack!"
Another stroll through memory lane!
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com [mailto:ARDUNDOUG@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:35 PM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Ugly Simca
In a message dated 8/10/2002 1:41:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
salthawk@coldreams.com writes:
> Don't worry Doug, no question that the Lowery Coupe is at the top of the
> heap. Must be why I own so many of them. The 57-58 Sedans bare no
> resemblance what so ever, but they do have fins. Looked up Simca in myThe
> World of Automobiles set and found out some about the use of the ford
>
Kvach,
I'm infected also, owning a 401 Nailhead Buick powered 53 Starlight
coupe
and a 60 Hawk.
You're right, the Loewy coupes were completely different than the
Starlight/Starliner/Hawk series from 1953 to 1961.........Doug
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