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Don't limit yourself to just the island! If you do need parts for your car you might want to place an order with a states side vendor and have them ship it to your hotel on the island.

Spark plugs? Radiator cap? How big is your suitcase? What do you need? Mike

I am unfortunately a bad reference point to ask, as my car was left outside with a leaky moonroof 24+ years in an alternatively snowy and humid climate. Disassembly for me just involves grabbing and pulling. Pruning shears have been used. The sawzall will be coming out to separate the frame from, well ... both from itself and from the body. I'm going to plunge cut my Blake with an oscillating multi-tool to put the turn indicators back in Raymond Loewy's location. I bet you have the picture now. So I am guessing here but I would handle a nicer car by first removing the side trim pieces and the roll bar cover (which I believe is held on by those triangle shaped pressure-fit clips). That should give access to edges of the headliner where fingers or tools like hooks or scrapers could get in and start to gently pry apart. The thing I keep reminding myself, and it was true when I was working on 63R-1025 also, these cars weren't assembled in a very complex manner.

Thanks. Got it put back together and am happily cruising. Felt kinda stupid when they hit the floor and I had no idea where they came from. LOL

How large of a logo? Would you want the logo to span the whole side of the cover, or one reasonably sized logo centered over the hood / bonnet? And do you mean the logo with the skewed three stripes with Avanti lettering in red and the arrow? Or would you just like the Avanti with the arrow? I have the ability to save as an .eps file and could probably make one fairly large. There aren't any [® ™ ©] hangups associated with this are there?

Just pulled the tank on my ‘83 for a wash out and those foam pads go on each side of the tank. Specific position doesn't seem to matter, just one flat on each side between the tank and the sidewall

I'm off to Hawaii in a few weeks and I thought it might be a good time to save on some shipping costs to Australia. Does anybody have any ideas what parts Napa or O Reilly's etc etc might have for an Avanti (63/64) that I could bring home in my suitcase? All suggestions are welcome. Peter

Had mine ready, drove to the show, decided to check it out first. Sparse attendance, obnoxious music, only 4 or 5 cars of interest. Not worth the $20 fee, on to the next. I can rattle off the Avanti story with the best of them!

So how many folks have their cars all cleaned up and taking them to a show this weekend? Do you all have the Avanti story down for the questions you will be asked? The local SDC is hosting a show in Spokane next Saturday and if the weather holds our coffee group will swing in. Hope everyone has a good spring. Mike

shifter and center "glove box" lifted strait from Monte Carlo

Thanks for the feedback everybody- Question for Ronmanfredi and Geoff.... How does the roof Headliner come off? I have no Idea how to remove that and I'm wary of spoiling it. 🤨 My Sunroof is already well corroded and I reckon it will need removal for any repair/restoration.

That's what I've heard from J. Pepper, that the heads put on the last of the performance Studebakers would have been more at home with the 3.875" or 4" bore blocks. Oh if only Studebaker could have been in business exactly 10 more years, and bowed out with the oil crisis, Dec. '73. Due Cento could have returned to Bonneville on dry salt and recorded 200 MPH. Maybe ... possibly ... a privateer team campaigning a 5L Challenger in 1966-1972 SCCA Trans-Am?

Thank you for that suggestion. My current plans involve some research to find another vehicle's spoiler style moonroof to install in my car. The spoiler style slides over the top of the car when fully opened. I was advised by a sunroof company this gains as much as 1.5" more headroom over the inbuilt type. If I become extremely anal retentive adhering to Colin Chapman's, "Simplify, and add lightness" another alternative is to buy the least expensive sunroof type which either pops open at rear, or gets removed and stowed to be opened. Two other choices I have involve closing the hole. I could DIY that with either fiberglass/FRP, or maybe some tinted polycarbonate/Plexiglass and seal out the air but let sunlight in.

Friend.. Ya got too much time on your hands... but the result is very good.

Remarkable… very nicely done!

Shifter is Monte Carlo. I remember something about Oldsmobile parts for the shift gear positioning slider in the console. Good luck, Jim

Question regarding the automatic shifter mechanism for an 87. I know the original car was a Monte Carlo. My mechanic thinks the 87 Monte Carlos had shift mechanism on steering wheel shaft. He believes the shifter is actually from a Regal. Anyone know? Many thanks. Jim L

I would imagine the rare R3-R4 type cylinder heads would bolt right on to the prototype 340… without the needed cylinder chamfering found in the smaller 305 CI blocks.

Nostalgic Motors sells a complete sunroof delete roof skin in case you want to just reskin the entire roof.

No they didn’t number them. Even the standard casting number was on them. They were cast on Veterans Day 1963 by the date code. There is a V or N (?) cast into the side of the block. This block was discussed in an old SDC thread.

No problem. I shall be removing that moonroof as these next seasons progress. 4174 is getting torn down to bare minimal levels, as I have a massive build in mind.

Geoff- I applaud your pioneering work and the photos help tremendously. I cannot help but think repairing my sunroof might be folly given I have extricated some really rusty metal pieces so far. In any case your pictures paint a very good picture of what is in store- thank you and keep 'em coming ! 👍

Update- I have managed to remove the outermost screw easily, however the innermost one is rotating without releasing. We have pushed wedges under the base of the bottle and rotated the screw in an attempt to raise it, but no go so far. I don't wish to resort to butchery so if this won't come out I think I'll have to very carefully grind off the head of the Screw using a finger belt grinder or similar. Going overseas for a month shortly so this might be a dead thread until I get back....

Here is more vinyl work, the wrap on seat back edge, the sail panels, and side panel.

I took the car cover off today, it was finally warm enough for that. Here are some behind the scenes peeks at what lies beneath (above) the headliner. My poor basket case was left outdoors 24-ish years, uncovered with a leaky moonroof, so um, rust happened. But besides that, this is how the moonroof is in the car. I'll be taking this one out of the car in my quest to build her back to my specifications. My post above this one goes into that. The first image is looking back from the windshield The second is at the rear, the rear glass is to image's left. Last pic. is along the left side, looking toward interior's rear.