Avanti by Studebaker

A quick clip showing a bit of original Avanti promotional material from Studebaker and others. I bought my first Avanti in 1968, my second in 1982, and my last in 1994. Loved them all!

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• Avanti
• Studebaker
• Lowey

[ejimmy1995]

avanti is actually still around

it is at avantimotors(dot)com

[JeffDeWitt]

Scottpens, name us another stock 1963 car with a supercharged engine, disk brakes, seat belts and a roll bar.

Studebaker had every right to call it "America's most advanced car"

And Studebakers problems had nothing to do with a lack of a full size car, the Cruiser was a big, comfortable car. Studebakers problems had to do with management, the union and a very tough business environment.

[FriendlyDriver]

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[proteanview]

Love these cars. Great clip.

[ducatinova]

Like Studebaker's Loewy coupe, It was a beautiful car, but the money should have been spent on a full size car. The Lark could not support the company. Big number sellers at that time were full size cars from the big 3. with Rambler in the mix, Studebaker really needed a full range of cars.

[thespawnof66]

Studebaker didn't actually fold, it just basically quit the business. Ah Avanti, you were a pretty car, though in my opinion not really what Studebaker needed at the time.

[yjmoneypit]

i worked on one once a vet wanna be very nice car

[oldpossum]

I once owned such a beauty,

an Avanti replica on a Corvette chassis and a huge Olds engine,

with a seapine green metallic body and white leater seats.

Whenever I parked that baby in downtown Zurich there was always immediately a bunch of guys standing around it.

I once gave it to a friend of mine, and he couldn't find the light switches -- they were located in the center, above the windshield, and when you switched them on, all the control gauges were bathed in a juke box like soft red light.

[scotpens]

Calling the Avanti "America's most advanced automobile" was a bit of advertising hype. The styling was certainly ahead of its time -- it still looks gorgeous today -- but mechanically it was based on the standard Lark chassis, just like the original Ford Mustang was based on the compact Falcon.

After Studebaker folded in 1964, various companies made the Avanti as a low-volume specialty car until 1993, by which time the aging design could no longer keep up with federal safety regs.

[HeadTater]

those are neat cars. They went so fast that at high speed, you would have to roll up the windows so that the rear window wouldn't blow out due to the preasure.