Vintage Cars: your 66 Daytona, raymond loewy, dealer showrooms

Question
Richard , have read that you own a 66 Daytona , I also have one and I have a roster of 66 Daytonas . I'd like to include yours if you would . I'd need the numbers on the firewall and the vin # also colors and your location .
Thanks ...Bob

Answer
Sorry, I don't know where you got that information.... I only own Hupmobiles - a '39 and 2 '41s. I know what you're up against - I maintain the Hupmobile Skylark registry, and it is sometimes like pulling teeth to get people to respond.

My grandmother owned a '62 Lark VIII Cruiser, a beautiful car that ended up getting junked when she ran it out of oil on the highway one day in '69. My dad owned a '51 Champion Starlight when he was stationed in the UK, but that is the sum total of our family's Studebaker ownership.

There is a Hupmobile-Studebaker connection, however. Raymond Loewy's first two automotive projects were the '32-34 Hupp "Cycle Fender" cars - the Model I, F and K series cars, and the 1934-1936 Hupp Aerodynamics - the Model J, T, D, G and N cars. The '34-'35 Model W Hupmobiles were non-Loewy designs, loss leaders to get people into the Hupmobile dealer showrooms. Check out the Hupp Club website clubs.hemmings.com/hupmobile for photos of those cars under the "Model Info" tab.