Reply To: What would the never produced 1934 Studebaker-based P-A’s have looked like?

[Paul J. West]

Oops, forgot one more image… the grill that never was. In descriptions of the Silver Arrow Show Car’s gestation in late 1932 there is reference made to the grill looking too much like Studebaker. The Studebaker grill being alluded to is undoubtedly the 1934 version. New car designs, even then, needed to be established a year or more prior to launch. The familiar vertical grill ultimately used for the 1934 P-A line appears to be the 1933 836 grill positioned about 1.5 inches higher off the ground, a decision born of necessity given the compressed timing that P-A found itself in as it hurried to create new bodies wholly unrelated to Studebaker.