Robert E. Bourke of Loewy/Studebaker is credited with the Starliner design.
Beautiful 1953 Starliner, customized & owned by Ian Hendry of Yorba Linda, California.
Gliding to earth
a heavenly burst
of stardust
gracefully sleek
igniting our lust
Bourke’s vision
of automotive chic
as enticing
and exciting
as a beautiful women
no american car
ever minimalisticaly finer
a heavenly body
named for its celestial muse
the alluringly stunning
Starliner
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Original stock 1953 Starliner.
rob kistner © 2023
Poetry at: dVerse
Gorgeous car, and a cool piece!
Thank you De… 🙂 …needed to lighten my spirits.
I didn’t know there was car called a Starliner. It looks dazzling…
And to think, that car was designed and manufactured 70 years ago True! Pretty amazing when you take a look at the clunky hunks that the rest of Detroit was turning out back then in 1953. That Studebaker Starliner design looks better than a great many cars of today.
What an unusual car, with an unusual name, Rob! I’ve never seen or heard of one like that.
It was an amazing car in 1953 Kim, way way ahead of its time. Studebaker was too advanced for its own good, the average car buyer struggled to relate and they fell behind in the automotive race. Being headquartered in Indiana also created supply chain problems. After the release in 1962 of the unique Avanti the Studebaker company started getting bad press about their instability, and in 1963 they began heading toward bankruptcy.
A great tribute poem. A beautiful car design! Is this a Studebaker?
So sorry to hear about your wife. Hope all goes well.
Thank you Dwight… 🙂 It is a customized 1953 Studebaker Starliner Commander. A picture of the dealership showroom stock version of the ‘53 is at the bottom of the poem. Even the base, un-customized original was way way ahead of its time for an American car, and still a sleek, beautiful car!
Starliner .. star light, star bright … wish oh wish my dream tonight!
Lotsa wishin’ on a star right now — and sleeves-rolled-up “hands on”. Thank you Helen. 🙂
Studebaker never looked so good, nor has one been so well-honored than by your poem. Well done, Ron.
Thank you Bill… 🙂 The 1953 Studebaker Commander Starliner coupe was an iconic milepost of American 4-passenger automotive design. Way ahead of its time. The Chevy Corvette was released in ‘53; but was only 2-passenger, and looked clunky bolted-together compared to the sleek 4-passenger Starliner. Two years later, thr ‘55 Ford Tunderbird had clean, but somewhat boxier lines — was also only 2-passenger. Wasn’t until 1958 that Ford released a 4-passenger Thunderbird, and it had a typical awkward American design-by-commitee look. The ‘53 Studebaker Starliner coupr remains in a class of its own, and, and in my opinion, still the sleekest, most visually balanced, most beautifully designed American 4-passenger coupe ever conceived and built.
She’s a real beauty! We have the Gilmore Car Museum a couple of hours from here that has so many of the beauties of olden days. Mind boggling how big old cars used to be. Seeing them on a TV screen doesn’t do them justice.
Yes she is Lisa, and I wrote about another classic beauty today… 🙂
So much captured in the form of a beautiful car..
Glad you enjoyed Björn… 🙂
I know nothing about cars. This one looks like it could fly though!
Oh it could Merril, about 125 mph! 😉