I like Studebakers. I've never owned one but my very first automobile journalist test drive, way back in the 50's, happened in the far-north city of Timmins, Ontario where I'd been posted as a novice radio announcer.

I persuaded the local airport manager to close the runway while spinning a Loewy-designed coupe through simulated turns. The review, if you'll permit a little boasting, was North America's first on-air test drive.

Years - no, make that decades - later, I am pleased to learn that the city of South Bend, Indiana has built a Studebaker Museum that focuses on the community as well as the car. And why not? People drive cars but people make them.

A comprehensive review is available from thecarconnection's Museum Hawk. Or you can go directly to the Museum's own site and indulge in nostalgia from America's most adventurous and risk-taking automaker. And the good folks who built them.