Author Topic: Solved - NEH 4532: Studillac Silver Ray built for/by H. Donald Cannuzzi - 1953  (Read 716 times)

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What's this, done by whom for whom - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4532
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2016, 04:14:49 AM »
Nice one - I have some pics of this one, once it's solved (by somebody else).  :)
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Re: NEH 4532
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2016, 05:28:51 AM »
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Re: NEH 4532
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2016, 10:56:59 AM »
It's a mid-'50s Studebaker customized for  H. Donald Canazzi in the late '50s, who owned a fiberglass boat company. Styling wise it looked it might have been designed by Canazzi himself (at least my source seems to say so), but the mechanic upgrades were done by Bill Frick. It was called the Golden Ray Studillac.

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Re: NEH 4532
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2016, 11:25:46 AM »
It's a mid-'50s Studebaker customized for  H. Donald Canazzi in the late '50s, who owned a fiberglass boat company. Styling wise it looked it might have been designed by Canazzi himself (at least my source seems to say so), but the mechanic upgrades were done by Bill Frick. It was called the Golden Ray Studillac.

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Canazzi's boat-building company was Custom Craft of Buffalo, NY, and it's quite likely they carried out the fibre-glass mods to his designs.
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Now we can have a few more photos of this oddball...
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Didn't James Bond's CIA mate , Felix Leiter, drive a Studillac (in the books)?
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Didn't James Bond's CIA mate , Felix Leiter, drive a Studillac (in the books)?

Crikey, did he?
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Re: NEH 4532
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2016, 07:01:32 AM »
Nice one - I have some pics of this one, once it's solved (by somebody else).  :)

I'll post my other pics then...

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Sorry - I missed it. Nice pics!
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