I think Loewy was in on the Black, Silver, and Golden Hawk models of the
mid-50's (maybe he bailed after that series got on the drawing board?):

http://users3.ev1.net/~hcstude/stude/
<http://users3.ev1.net/~hcstude/stude/>

This site seems to imnply that Loewy wasn't involved until the Hawk models,
that Bob Bourke did the '50/'51 bullet nosed ones (maybe, as you suggest, he
managed the design department at that time?).

http://www.1956goldenhawk.com/stustory.htm
<http://www.1956goldenhawk.com/stustory.htm>

I almost bought a '50 or '51 Stude back in '71 for $75 when I was still in
high school. It was in green primer paint and had a bad interior (as I
recall) but it was driveable (or at least moved under its own power--I even
took my parents for a memorable test drive out in back of Dean of Ithaca,
not to bring up the whole Six Mile Creek sawmill string again). As I recall
it had four doors (I don't recall if the rear ones were the suicide style),
a flathead straight six (I think), and standard transmission. I think I
looked at another '50/'51 (it might've been a business coupe) but didn't to
buy it.

Too many cars, not enough garage space...

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Subject: Re: Studebaker Dictator History



Turns out Studebaker made the Dictator line from 1927-37, when the name's
image went downhill as a result of You-Know-Who.  Raymond Loewy's office was
in charge of, or least involved in, the design of the 1950-51 Champions,
which had the ever-so-attractive "bullet" nose; the Loewy designers
apparently revolted and bailed out when the Studebaker people decided they
wanted heavier, chromier cars like everybody else in the mid-50's.

STudebaker Bros Mfg started out making wagons, including many for the Gold
Rush in 1849. I couldn't find any reference to the Peter Studebakers; no
doubt they came to an even more ignominious end than the Dictator and Avanti
branches of the family.

Thought you'd all want to know.

Ralph