Studebaker Big Six
The Studebaker Big Six - also known as the Model EG - was a passenger car manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend, Indiana from 1918 to 1926. From model year 1927, the model was called Big Six Studebaker President . The Big Six was the company's largest and most luxurious range of models.
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Between 1918 and 1920 the Big Six was only offered as a 4-door touring car, which was the most common body type at the time. But the prices of closed cars fell and customers began to see the advantages of a closed or semi-closed structure and so various other bodies were available from 1921 onwards. In the 1926 model year, special bodies like the Phaeton with two hoods and the "Berlina" sedan were even offered.
In 1918 and 1919 the Big Six were powered by Studebaker's inline six-cylinder engine with 5801 cm³, the 60 bhp (44 kW) at 2000 rpm. performed. In 1926 the engine delivered 75 bhp (55 kW) at 2400 rpm with the same displacement. The wheelbase also grew considerably during this time from 3048 mm in 1918 to 3226 mm (long wheelbase) in 1926. The short wheelbase was still available.
At the New York Auto Show in 1924, Studebaker showed a Big Six from 1918, which had a proven mileage of 500,000 (801,000 km), thus proving the endurance and reliability of the Studebaker automobiles.
The Studebaker models from 1918 represented an important milestone for the company, as they stood for the dissolution of the collaboration with the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company , which was not very successful.
In 1927, the models were given the transitional name Big Six President , because Studebaker changed its previously engine-related model names to more catchy names. So the Standard Six became a dictator and the Special Six became a Commander . With the Big Six President, the famous Studebaker V8 engine with 5129 cm³ displacement was introduced in 1928, which developed 100 bhp (74 kW) maximum output and made the old name Big Six forgotten.
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- James H. Maloney: Studebaker Cars. Crestline Books, 1994, ISBN 0-87938-884-6 .
- Beverly R. Kimes (Ed.), Henry A. Clark: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, 1996, ISBN 0-87341-428-4 .