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by Michael Rose
Studebaker had a great idea -- a station wagon with a sliding roof panel. This made the vehicle a semi-pick up truck or closed wagon. A versatile feature that never caught on but this promo shows that it could be useful for carting a giraffe or a gaggle of Girl Scouts. Of course, if you did that today, the police would haul you off for public endangerment. What were we thinking?

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by Michael Rose
The 1963 Lark boasted disc brakes, a built-in lighted vanity mirror in the glove box and contemporary styling at an affordable price. Studebaker turned to Zsa Zsa Gabor to pitch this somewhat exotic, nearly compact car. Like her marriages -- the company didn't last much longer after she got involved.

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by Michael Rose
Car commercials helped to shape how we thought about our way of life. They gave us hope, told us what we should aspire to become, who we were, showed us where we wanted to go and told us how we could get there.

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