His Golden Hawk Evokes an Era When Studebaker Soared

Ryan Kerrigan, 50, a managing director of Kerrigan Advisors, an automotive retail transaction services firm, living in Incline Village, Nev., on his 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, as told to A.J. Baime.

I went to Notre Dame for my undergraduate degree. The campus is next to South Bend, Ind. I knew absolutely nothing about this place when I got there, but I quickly realized it was fascinating. South Bend was caught in the past. It had these big, hulking factories that were defunct, and the most noteworthy was what remained of the massive Studebaker factory. That is what initiated my interest in the Studebaker story.