psdenno Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 True or False.....The Orange interior option was only available in combination with an Avanti white exterior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 False. You could get the orange interior with black, grey, white and gold exteriors. It was unavailable with turquoise and red exteriors. That was for 1963...the orange interior wasn't available for 1964 Avantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdenno Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 False. You could get the orange interior with black, grey, white and gold exteriors. It was unavailable with turquoise and red exteriors. That was for 1963...the orange interior wasn't available for 1964 Avantis. Correct. I've only seen the orange and white combination, including the one in my garage. Anyone here have a picture of an orange interior in an other than white Avanti? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plwindish Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've seen more "creamsicle" combinations than other combinations. To date, I've seen the three other colors, black, gray, and gold with orange/fawn interior combination, but only 1 or 2 examples of each. I've seen at least 6 of the creamsicle combination with white exterior Avantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdenno Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 The orange interior was somewhat radical, even for the 1960s when most car interiors were shades of blue, brown, green, or black with maybe a little white or gold for accent. Not sure the fawn Avanti accent trim toned the orange down very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plwindish Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 psdenno, look through Bob Johnstone's Studebaker Resource pages on the Avanti registry for pics of the other combinations. I'm guessing the gold/orange & fawn combination was quite popular as I've seen several. One member of our Black Hawk SDC and Chicago AOAI has 2 - 63 Gold R2's with the orange & fawn interior. There has been at least 1 black/ orange & fawn appear on Ebay and I believe there is a gray/orange combo on the Avanti registry in the Resource pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 According to the Production Data booklet available from the SNM, the numbers for an orange interior and exterior colors was: black exterior - 10 cars white exterior - 240 cars gold exterior - 78 cars gray exterior - 24 cars It does show that 5 1964 Avantis were equipped with orange interiors (2 white, 2 gold, 1 gray). While no serial numbers are provided, I expect they would have been pre-R4892 cars...true transitional cars but that's supposition on my part. Regardless...the white exterior/orange interior was by far the most popular combination with orange and orange being the rarest of all standard interior color options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dapy Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 All popular kitchen color combinations of the period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdenno Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 psdenno, look through Bob Johnstone's Studebaker Resource pages on the Avanti registry for pics of the other combinations. I'm guessing the gold/orange & fawn combination was quite popular as I've seen several. One member of our Black Hawk SDC and Chicago AOAI has 2 - 63 Gold R2's with the orange & fawn interior. There has been at least 1 black/ orange & fawn appear on Ebay and I believe there is a gray/orange combo on the Avanti registry in the Resource pages. Thanks for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Cutting through all this pleasentness.....False there WERE turquoise Avantis with orange interiors. I know of several people that have witnessed them first hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 False there WERE turquoise Avantis with orange interiors. I know of several people that have witnessed them first hand. .There is a '63 Avanti in the Needham, Mass. area with an orange and fawn 'Regal' interior, and 'Avanti Turquoise' exterior paint....and I've seen more than one 'Avanti Gold' Studebaker Avanti with an orange and fawn interior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plwindish Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) I'm not a fan of the turquoise exterior and light blue interior, let alone an orange interior, GAG---GAG---GAG. The factory usually would not put a color blind person in charge of selecting exterior/interior combinations, but that, IMHO, is not a combination I would want to pay good money for. Someone in Needham could have swapped out an interior for the orange. Edited January 29, 2015 by plwindish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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