The Studebaker National Museum, South Bend, IN

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CCS Summer Cultural Immersion Workshop 2012.

Studebaker president Sherwood Egbert and Raymond Loewy 
at the Studebaker Proving Ground.

Studebaker clay modelers work on the Avanti's full size clay model in summer f 1961.

The eight-scale clay models stand in foreground.

The Studebaker 1963 Avanti Prpduction Model:
The car was created to revive interest in the failing Studbaker brand.
and was marketed as a " prestige car" similar to the Ford Thunderbird and Buick Riviera.
Standerd equipment included a fiber glass body, seat belt, disc break and a roll bar.
Engine: V8, 289 cubic, 240 hp, $4,445

They have been developing the prototype of 4 door version Avanti after that.

Front View

Side view

1953 Champion Starliner Hardtop 

1934 Bendix commissioned this automotive products.

Bendix Corp. engineers built the car interlay by hand.

With some assistance from off-duty Studebaker employees. 

The car toured internationally, and was never shown publicly in the U.S. 

CCS Auto Cultural Immersion Workshop 2012

7 Car designers from Japan + 4 Care designers from China in Motown.

This summer, 11 Young Car Designer have visited the "Concours D' elegance of America" in Plymouth, Detroit last week. In a collaboration with Japanese major car companies, CCS, celebrating its 106th anniversary this year, invited young car designers to an intensive "CCS Auto-cultural Immersion Workshop" lasting approximately one month. It is the exciting event for us to contribute the brides between Japanese industries and CCS.

CCSのSpecial Event " Summer Auto-cultual Immersion Workshop"、つまり「アメリカ自動車文化研究会

」とでも言いましょうか、日本から有望な若手自動車デザイナー８名と同じく中国からの若手デザイナー４名を一ヶ月お預かりして、この時期に開催される盛りだくさんのイベントに参加しながら、デザインを勉強します。勿論、宿題も盛りだくさんです。先週は、”Concours D'elegance of America"を見学しました。日本ではなかなかみられない１９５０年代のステーションワゴンを沢山観ました。アメリカは第二次大戦後、その工業力を謳歌して、贅沢なワゴンを造っていました。昭和３０年代、日本がまだまだ戦後から立ち直っていない、、僕が小学生の頃のことです。

Concours D' elegance of America, Part 3