Friday Studebaker drag races | June 28


Friday saw a number of Studebakers and Avantis at Osceola Dragway east of South Bend, Ind.,
getting their speed runs, a quarter-mile at a time.



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Ted Harbit's Chicken Hawk (51 Commander) leave the line as Mike Scherrer gets set for a run Mike Scherrer leaves the line in his Lark Malcolm Berry (right) lines up his '63 Lark R2 wagon against Lew Schucart's 63 R1 Avanti Ted Harbit returns after running his diesel Transtar truck loaded with his unfinished Avanti race car
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Lew Schucart (left, 63 Avanti) and a 64 Lark line up Lew Schucart's 63 R1 Avanti Ted's ChickenHawk pulls ahead of a '60 Lark Malcolm Berry (left) and a black Avanti
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Two Hawks compete on the strip Jon Myer pulls away from a Firebird with his 64 455 Oldsmobile-powered Avanti Lew Schucart lines up his '63 R1 Avanti Lew Schucart's Avanti heading down the track
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Lew Schucart's Avanti coming back for another run! Lew's Avanti gets set against a '62 Lark Lew pulls away from the '62 Lark Scotty's '53 modified convertible lines up against a ProStreet Ford Ranger

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