And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Andy Granatelli would drive his gold metalflake Avanti in when I worked as a teenage grocery clerk.Quite a celebrity at the time. Sharkskin suit, I'd run out to collect shopping carts so I could watch him drop it in second and punch it as he left.
Back in the early 1960's a nearby neighbor somehow won an Avanti. He was so excited that he drove by our house (I was a sophomore in high school) and he asked me, "Do you want to take it for a spin?" Of course, I wanted to and my mother said that I could, so I did. WOW!!! What a thrill compared to my mother's 1956 Chevy station wagon!!!
I understand that for Studebaker, that most popular auto was "a day late and a dollar short" for the company and it folded soon thereafter.
They looked so unique when we was kids, that and the Henson Interceptors, really stood out, but then again, there where road legal GT40's too, and split window coups. An occasional Cord with those huge exhaust ducts. Time long gone now.
GM, Chrysler and Ford came out of WWII much stronger than their rivals. Studebaker merged with Packard and tried to revitalize their models with the Avante. It really was an awesome design. However, the economy of scale was not there and they could not compete with the BIG THREE.
There is one on a pole down in Alamo, TX. American Auto Parts.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me that that company folded!
ReplyDeleteAndy Granatelli would drive his gold metalflake Avanti in when I worked as a teenage grocery clerk.Quite a celebrity at the time. Sharkskin suit, I'd run out to collect shopping carts so I could watch him drop it in second and punch it as he left.
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1960's a nearby neighbor somehow won an Avanti. He was so excited that he drove by our house (I was a sophomore in high school) and he asked me, "Do you want to take it for a spin?" Of course, I wanted to and my mother said that I could, so I did. WOW!!! What a thrill compared to my mother's 1956 Chevy station wagon!!!
ReplyDeleteI understand that for Studebaker, that most popular auto was "a day late and a dollar short" for the company and it folded soon thereafter.
Yes indeed.
ReplyDeleteThey looked so unique when we was kids, that and the Henson Interceptors, really stood out, but then again, there where road legal GT40's too, and split window coups. An occasional Cord with those huge exhaust ducts. Time long gone now.
ReplyDeleteGM, Chrysler and Ford came out of WWII much stronger than their rivals. Studebaker merged with Packard and tried to revitalize their models with the Avante. It really was an awesome design. However, the economy of scale was not there and they could not compete with the BIG THREE.
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