The Studebaker Power Hawk is a two-door pillared

coupe A coupe or coupé (, ) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors. The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the French past parti ...

manufactured by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation for the 1956 model year only. The Power Hawk was technically part of the

Studebaker Commander The Studebaker Commander is the model name of several automobiles produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana (United States) and Studebaker of Canada Ltd of Walkerville and, later, Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). Studebaker began u ...

series, and featured the Commander's 259 cubic inch (4.2 L) V-8, which generated with two-barrel carburetor or with an optional four-barrel carb and dual exhaust. The Power Hawk was positioned between the base Flight Hawk pillared coupe and the Sky Hawk pillarless hardtop coupe. The car cost $2,101 before options and weighed 3,095 pounds (1404 kg). Both the Power Hawk and Flight Hawk were dropped at the end of the 1956 model year and replaced with the

Studebaker Silver Hawk The Studebaker Silver Hawk is an automobile produced in 1957, 1958 and 1959 by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Studebaker introduced the "Hawk" line in 1956, with four models based on the wheelbase and body of the '53 coupes ...

beginning in 1957. 7,095 were produced in the one year of production. File:Power Hawk 06-29-2019.jpg, 1956 Studebaker Power Hawk File:1956 Studebaker Power Hawk.jpg, 1956 Studebaker Power Hawk rear

External links

*http://www.1956goldenhawk.com/diffhawk.htm {{Studebaker Power Hawk Coupés Cars introduced in 1956