Imagine the 1951 Studebaker with a lighted nose

1951 Studebaker

“. . . We (started facelifting) the ’51, which was a terrible looking spinner job. It had a transparent, plastic spinner inside, and, God, they were terrible looking cars. . . . I remember how that transparent spinner started out. Somebody thought it would be neat to have a light behind it, and I talked them out of that, and we painted it with opaque silver, because they were ready for production. It would have been really crazy. I think that was brought about by the fact that somebody was impressed with the Tucker or a Cyclops eye — a single headlight on a locomotive.”

— Bob E. Bourke

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Also see ‘1951 Studebaker: Pointing in the wrong direction’

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