What is the make and model of this car?

The Packard Hawk was a rehash of the Studebaker Golden Hawk, inspired — if we may call it that — by the contemporary Maserati 3500 GT. Duncan McRae originally designed this car as a one-off for Curtiss-Wright president Roy Hurley, but it was eventually pressed into service as a Packard. Fewer than 600 were sold before the curtain came down. Interestingly, the Hawk also had a McCulloch-supercharged Studebaker 289 (4,737 cc) engine. With a two-barrel Stromberg carburetor and slightly less boost than the later R2 (5 psi/0.34 bar), it was rated at 275 hp (205 kW).

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Jaime Augusto Alzate

THE MAKE IS ON THE CAR. EASY.

unkabob

When cars were cars not clones. Back then cars were idividualized, you knew one model from another by it's physical makeup.. Today you need a program to distinguish one from another. Sure, the options are better and the battery will last much longer but back then it was simply a fun thing to own and drive and anyone could afford them.

lady draggon

Not much of an explanation for the answer

Anabelleandonly

Jaime Augusto Alzate, That's how I got it right!!!

earlepg

Cheryl Perkins, This American is terrible at recognizing cars, and it only got worse when the foreign cars started arriving. However, I can count out the seven (rather indistinct) letters shown on the hood, which gave me the correct answer.

chuckb

Ed Taber, 318's were built for trucks, that's why unless you run em up to 7k RPM they are pretty hard to break

Skip Hayden

Wrong to have choice with the Studebaker Golden Hawk, as the Packard was was ONLY a clone of it !!

Allison Aspden

Dead give away. Name is emblazoned on the car.

Peter Hamrol

Dead give-away in the front end of the care ...

Cheryl Perkins

I hate questions about American cars which only Americans would know.

Thomas Begeng

90 % the same as the Studebaker - just a different nose

Sue Grayson

Couldn't make out the letters clearly but could see there's only seven, the only option without eight or more.

Sue Grayson

Couldn't read it but could see it was seven letters, the only one of the options that had seven.

Ed Taber

289cid=4,737cc? really need to work on the math. The Stude289 was a good engine but the small block Chevys pretty much owned the road. Personally I preferred the Mopar 318 V-8's.Never heard of one of them blowing up.