Studbreaker Avanti

[Ssom]

I was reading the DuPont Registry today and I came across a few places selling Studebreaker Avanti's, well anyway I looked at the year and there were some from 2001 and 2002 I thought this car died in the 70's????? Who is making them Studebreaker or a replica-car company??????

[Hudson]

Studebaker stopped making the Avanti in 1963. A local Studebaker dealer bought the rights to the car and began producing it (not a replica, the actual car) in 1965. The company transferred ownership a few times over the years and the "Avanti Automobile Corporation" ended production officially in 1990.

A group in Georgia recruited Tom Kellogg, one of the original design team members for the Studebaker Avanti, to pen a modern Avanti.

The new Avanti is basically a Pontiac Firebird with different body panels.

[Ssom]

Originally posted by Hudson
Studebaker stopped making the Avanti in 1963. A local Studebaker dealer bought the rights to the car and began producing it (not a replica, the actual car) in 1965. The company transferred ownership a few times over the years and the "Avanti Automobile Corporation" ended production officially in 1990.

A group in Georgia recruited Tom Kellogg, one of the original design team members for the Studebaker Avanti, to pen a modern Avanti.

The new Avanti is basically a Pontiac Firebird with different body panels.

Thanks heaps for clearing that up for me :flash: :flash:

I can't help but think that you are some robot with knowledge of eveything cars, rather than a real human, you know so much :finger:



Perhaps a little too much


j/p

[Chris]

The real avanti is amazing, it was actually produced for 6 months after the company went under. So you can't blame people for wanting to make it after.

[Hudson]

Originally posted by Chris
The real avanti is amazing, it was actually produced for 6 months after the company went under. So you can't blame people for wanting to make it after.

That's not true, on two accounts.

Studebaker Avanti production stopped before the rest of Studebaker production ended. Nate Altman (the name slipped my mind earlier) was building Avantis in South Bend, Indiana, before Studebaker stopped building their other models.

Additionally, Studebaker never "went under." They stopped vehicle production in 1966, but remained in business and, through various mergers and acquisitions, remain in business today.

[Chris]

Will check and give reference for my statement.
BTW, what do they make/do now?

[Chris]

On the front of this card it says it was made from 1962 to 1964. It also says the company folded in December 1963. So I suppose they could have introduced the 1964 model in 1963. So this card is a little confusing. It also says that "The Avanti outlived the death of studebaker; production was continued under the name "Avanti II," with Chevy's Corvette V8 replacing the Studebaker engine." Now I can see where my earlier statement came from.

The info card is about 6 inched by 6 inches, and is copyrighted MCMXCI, Edito-Service S.A
copyright MCMXCI, U.S. Translation [aha! translated, there could be part of my proplems], GMH Cards of Knowledge.

[Hudson]

Relying on a 6x6 card may be your other problem (besides having it written, assumedly, in a country other than the ones where Studebaker was based). Find an Avanti club site (there are a few) and they'll tell you the same thing I mentioned earlier. Studebaker never went out of business, they just stopped making cars. It is true, however, that the Avanti II outlived Studebaker's production of cars. The Avanti II had a 327 followed by a 350 and 305 (depending on the year). It rode on the Studebaker designed chassis until the mid-1980s when it moved to the Monte Carlo chassis. The last couple of years, the Avanti was built on a cut-down Caprice chassis.

Avanti went out of business in 1993, after production stopped in 1991. The NEW company produces a facsimilie of the Avanti based on the Firebird.

[Chris]

Actually, some of the info I can collaborate with other sources, and the sheer number of pamphlets (about a thousand or more) indicates that they should have some good stuff. And all the pretty pictures are nice

[Hudson]

Chris:

I know the kind of "info cards" you're talking about. Just because they make a bunch of cards, doesn't mean the information's good. If you've summed up the history of a car to one card, I'm assuming you're missing some key information (and probably got some things wrong). As I tell people all the time, there's no money in getting facts right, people will believe the information is you just publish it....right or wrong.

[Chris]

*runs to corner, screaming*

Well, some of it can be good, and the pictures are pretty

[speediva]

Originally posted by Chris
*runs to corner, screaming*

Well, some of it can be good, and the pictures are pretty

*roflmao* Are we certain Chris isn't short for Christine, judging by this reaction??? I'm entirely joking...

I was always intruigued by the Studebaker, so this thread has been really enlightening... yes, even the fact that Chris has pretty pictures.