That is the same reason I picked a '53-'55 stude....great styling!

The hard part was deciding if the horsepower or styling had seniority....but I make my living with art, sooooo.....

Amongst today's hot rod enthusiasts, power takes a distant "back seat", but I am a child of the 50s-'70s, and have always been a big dragrace fan, so I had to resist the horspower lure.

The fantasy of stepping into a "showroom new" car of some kind, seemed to lead me to the older models where this is almost non-existant. I also have been around the hobby so long, I am somewhat bored by the popular bodies, and was thinking of something less seen, but revered and exotic.

If I had a Stude like that, I would probably want to be buried in it!