I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old vintage Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Mercedes vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps carb clean as new!
Were these U.S. engines? I didn't know any Hawks were ever made with a 6. When I was a kid, small town in N Idaho state, there were three Hawks around town--was a local dealer there who went T.U. when Studie folded
Studebaker did not offer their excellent 169.6 OHV six in US market Hawks in the 1962-1964 model years, but it was available in export models, as was the 259.2 V-8. The four 289's (210 (standard) or 225(optional)horsepower were available in 1962, with the "Jet Thrust" R-1 and "Jet Thrust Supercharged" R-2 Avanti variants added to the options list for 1963 models and the 304.5 R-3 (with Supercharger) or R-4 (no supe, but two 4-barrels) added to the menu for 1964. I think there was one R-3 Hawk.
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I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old vintage Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Mercedes vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps carb clean as new!
Pnoerre 1 year ago
Were these U.S. engines? I didn't know any Hawks were ever made with a 6. When I was a kid, small town in N Idaho state, there were three Hawks around town--was a local dealer there who went T.U. when Studie folded
fourfortyroadrunner 4 years ago
Studebaker did not offer their excellent 169.6 OHV six in US market Hawks in the 1962-1964 model years, but it was available in export models, as was the 259.2 V-8. The four 289's (210 (standard) or 225(optional)horsepower were available in 1962, with the "Jet Thrust" R-1 and "Jet Thrust Supercharged" R-2 Avanti variants added to the options list for 1963 models and the 304.5 R-3 (with Supercharger) or R-4 (no supe, but two 4-barrels) added to the menu for 1964. I think there was one R-3 Hawk.
winston5610 3 years ago
A 6 cylinder GT?!? Export car?
JeffDeWitt 4 years ago
Yes, in Europ (Belgium in this case) they where quite common. These GT's where even assembled in Belgium, and it's hard to find a GT v8 around here.
fta73 4 years ago