We never got the S.B Hawks in Blighty; but I yearned to have one back in the day. Looking at well thumbed magazines from America in my youth. Everything from the USA seemed so big to us back then. Both musically and motors, bikes or cars….. Wonderful times.I'll see your Steve Miller's "Mercury Blues" and raise ya a "Goin' to Mexico".
I had me a '50 Merc Club Coupe back in the early '70's, had a mess of Studebaker Hawks too.....let them all slip through me hands. If I see any of those now I sigh as if seeing an old girlfriend in somebody else's arms.......
Zappa and the Mothers with Flo and Eddie had a Studebaker Hawk character.
Never had a '53 Studebaker but I wouldn't turn one away.