Beautiful design to my eyes Tom. I still like the hudson model very much as well. Perhaps the survival rate of the hudson model was better or they built more of them.. I base this only on seeing a few of the hudsons but never the studebaker varient.

This studebaker kind of has simularities to the 39-40 ford era in frontal design. Ford was running so strong in the marketplace back then it is understandable though.

I owned a 1939 ford two door sedan from the far north of Canada. Reflector headiights and all. It never left the town it was delivered to until the cars owners brought it south and sold it to me. There were no roads at all out of that northern town.

For those that never drove simular cars or they were well before their time. Between the exterior running boards and the body tapering towards the front. The front seat was not overly wide inside. By todays 1/2 ton standards the cubic feet of internal volume amount in the cab was perhaps little more than half. It was cozy by my definition. One slightly unusual to me design component is the laid back windshield for the times on this model.