Friday, December 15, 2023

If I was gonna get an Avanti, this would be the one.

 




19 comments:

  1. Aren't the red ones supposedly 10% faster?
    - WDS

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    1. The coppers think so.

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    2. I referred to the Signal Red color of my Jaguar XJS as "Arrest Me Red"

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  2. With the lack of a conventional grille, I'm surprised nobody has dropped the Avanti body on a Tesla drivetrain. Seems like it'd be natural.

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  3. Beautiful then, beautiful car now...

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  4. with the factory supercharger it was the fastest car in America. Problem was the numbers came out for the avanti so tight to the deadline for the year the corvette (chevy) threatened to cause trouble. seems the people that did the fiberglass for Studebaker also did it for chevy and chevy got 1st dibs since they had money. If you do research the Avanti was a better car all the way around the the corvette but Studebaker didn't have the money to compete. BTW Studebacker made their own superchargers in their Paxton products division

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  5. I had a girlfriend who called my red sports car - a "penis car."

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    1. She had penis envy.

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    2. Silly, it's a p&ssy car. You don't get 'in' a penis. You get in....

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  6. I'd drive that before a Citroen.

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  7. Orange is the new red: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/1976-studebaker-avanti-denver-co-2731805

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    1. Man, that's darn near the exact color of the Challenger.

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  8. The trunk needs alignment. I'll take it!

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  9. FYI the round headlights were only on the '63's (my dad had one.) The '64's and the later Avanti II's have square deadlights.

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  10. That is one plug ugly car.

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  11. Ya had to be there...

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  12. An excellent choice! A beautiful car.

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