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Did they use a ford 289 or did they have their own engine
As Gink said, the 289 was a Studebaker designed and built engine. Studebaker debuted their V-8 in 1951 at 232 CID, it then went to 224 CID, up to 259 CID in 1955 and finally to 289 CID in 1956. This engine was the last new one that Studebaker developed (the prior one being the 169.5 CID Champion engine in 1939) and carried them through the end of production in South Bend in December, 1963. There were a limited number of Avanti engines (R-3) that were 304.5 CID and sported a Paxton supercharger.
There is no association with the Ford engine other than the displacement but Studebaker did use GM McKinnon engines in their 1965 and 1966 models (194 and 230 6's and 283 2V V-8).
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