Studebaker Station Wagon Retractable Roof

I haven t come across one of these in years and it is definitely worth a closer look.

Studebaker station wagon retractable roof.

While the guys were shooting this cool studebaker wagon for unique cars we snuck in and talked with the owner richard salter. The retractable roof on this lark adds a lot of character and makes it really standout in a crowd of boring grocery haulers. This sliding roof was operated by hand and the thought was that having the cargo opened for larger and taller. Studebaker advertising showed the practicality of an open roof wagon with demonstrations of the extra cargo carrying capacity the open roof added.

It s really easy to picture a wagonaire backed up to a stream or boat ramp with some angler standing right up in the back and casting trout flies through the open roof. Subscribe to street machine fo. Sadly the driver doesn t get to enjoy all that sun and fresh air. It was more for function than fun making it possible to hual around tall items such as refrigerators.

It s a go anywhere take everybody go have fun kind of vehicle. Its potential uses are myriad. It featured a retractable sliding rear roof section that allowed the vehicle to carry items that would otherwise be too tall for a conventional station wagon of the era. When studebaker came out with the sliding roof station wagon in 1963 it was a pretty innovative design.

It has the retractible rear roof designed by brook stevens that was only available for 3 years am fm cd player air conditioning. Especially when you consider this 1964 studebaker lark waonaire station wagon s rear retractable roof. The wagonaire was the supreme wagon and the innovative wagon had the retractable roof. Unknowingly studebaker had set the tone for every tricked out sunroof moonroof and multi panel retractable roof to follow suv or not.