Brian Sutton is a proud New Zealander now living in Australia. His 1956 Champion proves Studebaker still has a magazine. Very often the front covers showed Norman Rockwell paintings of idyllic American homes and family life in general,” Sutton recalls. “Inside the magazine...were advertisements displaying beautiful automobiles of the era. Along with girls, how could I not fall in love with those magnificent mechanical icons of the postwar era? When I turned 20 I was fortunate enough to be able to afford to buy a one-owner, 4-year-old 1956 Studebaker Champion, which I owned when I met the girl I married two years later. We still have the car, which we drove on our honeymoon 15 months later and own to this day. I believe, apart from museums, our car is probably one of the most original of its model in great condition...remaining in the world. These vehicles were produced in right-hand drive for export to various right-hand-drive countries around the world, including Australia and New Zealand.”
