What is the highest bid this car has had?

$15,500 on Bring a Trailer in October 2025, and it did not sell.

Auction history

1953 Studebaker Commander

VIN 8836142

This 1953 Studebaker Commander was bid to $15,500 on Bring a Trailer in October 2025 without selling and was bid to $15,500 there in October 2025 without selling, as of October 7, 2026.

Photo: Bring a Trailer

Every time it’s been to auction

2 appearances. Oldest first.

Oct 2025Bid to $15,500, not soldBring a Trailer
Oct 2025Bid to $15,500, not soldBring a Trailer

What Commanders sell for

Only 7 Commanders have sold in the past two years, too few to mark a range.

Commanders that sold

The 7 sales in the past two years, too few to mark a range. Newest first.

Questions

What is the highest bid this car has had?: $15,500 on Bring a Trailer in October 2025, and it did not sell.
How many times has it been to auction?: Twice, without selling.

Why it looks like this

No chart and no score. Every figure on this page is a hammer price from a real auction, matched to the car’s trim, body and gearbox, converted at the rate on the day it sold, with the replicas, projects and odd sales set aside. The range is where most of those sales landed. Where there aren’t enough sales to say something, the page says so instead.

How Sam decides →

GoAskSam links to every sale. Bidding happens on the auction site.