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Rico
04-25-2010, 06:40 PM
I stumbled onto a car show today and saw one of these:

"The 'Studebaker Commander' is the model-name of a long succession of automobiles produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana (USA) and Studebaker of Canada Ltd of Walkerville and, later, Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). Studebaker began using the Commander name in 1927[1]:p258 and continued to use it until 1964, with the exception of 1936 and 1959-63. The model-name was applied to various positions in the company's product line-up from year to year.

Interestingly, the Pearson Commander started production in 1964... when studebaker stopped using the name. Or was it in 1963?

In any case; here is a picture of a 1955 'Commander' similar to the one I saw today. (That was in Pink!)

http://www.trombinoscar.com/studebaker/sb550402.jpg

Commander 147
04-28-2010, 04:40 AM
Even as cars the commanders look good!!!!

Rico
05-10-2010, 06:43 PM
Here is another:

http://www.commanderclub.com/PhotoAlbums/Rendezvous_2006_Boats/images/IMG_7261.jpg

The infamous Chris Craft 'Commander'... Allegedly; Pearson stopped production of the Pearson Commander Sailboat due to Chris Crafts' threat to sue for Copyright infringement over the Commander name. - I would have changed the name instead... I imagined there must have been other reasons since they also stopped producing the Ariel around that time...

Commander 147
05-10-2010, 08:38 PM
Yea.....that one I'm not so fond of. It is a stink potter that helped to bring about the end of a very good era. So was that one actually built before the Pearson Commanders? I'm guessing it had to be or else there would be no basis for a law suit.

c_amos
05-10-2010, 09:16 PM
The Ariel Motorcycle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Motorcycles) is not too shabby (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintagebike-images/ariel_square_four_1950.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/zoom_ariel_square_four_1950.html&usg=__jngIavNMIBTWyZTO2zYtdkT_ElE=&h=640&w=1000&sz=298&hl=en&start=15&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=ee5BOJ23OdydvM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dariel%2Bmotor%2Bcycle%26um%3D1%26hl%3 Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1) either;

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Motorcycles

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