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Losing but Winning. In 1955, driving a car from the garage in Surbiton, he won the Australian Grand Prix, snapped up an offer to campaign on the international circuit with Cooper. But he met with little success until this year, when he climbed behind the wheel of the retooled Cooper-Climax, won the Monaco Grand Prix (average speed: 67.6 m.p.h.), finished second in the Dutch Grand Prix, and first in the British Grand Prix...
...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...
...Driving his own Porsche sports car in a preliminary to the German Grand Prix, France's Jean Behra, screeched into a banked turn at no m.p.h., lost control on the rain-slick track, was killed when his car spun over the embankment...
...does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could not battle model-for-model against the Big Three, he put all his mechanical skill into a single car -the compact, chrome-clean, low-priced (from $1,925) Lark. The results: S.P. has produced 126,000 Lark '59s (v. 50,000 Studebakers of all kinds a year ago), lifted first-half sales to $210 million (v. $71 million), earned $12 million (v. a first-half '58 loss...
...working life, Harold Churchill figured that the way to compete was to produce an "ideal" small car, but it took him many years to do it. He got into Studebaker 33 years ago as a half-trained engineer (two years at Western Michigan University), gained a name as "the guy who did everything." He was one of the three men who engineered the "economy" '39 Champion (priced as low as $675). During the war he began turning out the famed tanklike Weasel for the U.S. just 50 days after the company got the order. He filed more than...