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And I could only think of THREE!!!!!!

Yep… you’re ‘ON THE MONEY” there!!!

Interesting… I wish there were clear illustrations of those spacers in the manuals. (maybe they are shown in the Avanti workshop manual)…. I haven’t ventured out to garage to look at it yet… This is important to me, as I’m supposed to help a friend convert a ‘64 Avanti from auto to 4 speed this coming spring.

Yes, the four spacers used between brake booster and mounting bracket was the last on my list… Well done! And I’ll take your word for it on the manual trans mount spacers (I see them mentioned in book)…. but for the life of me I can’t remember seeing them on an Avanti… Oh well!!!

Sorry no, that isn’t the answer!

Good guess, but not the answer!

Yes, the spacer used between left rear engine mount and frame crossmember ( in Avantis with auto trans) is one of the answers I had!……. However, I’m not familiar with spacers used with manual transmission mounts….?

Yes… The shims sometimes used between the dash crossmember and steering column is one I had! Any other thoughts?

No thoughts/ideas here?

“Continuation car” ….. never heard that term… but I like it!

I can think of 3 more items that would qualify as spacers/shims…… Any more thoughts here? HINT…. These would also be common to an R1 or R2 equipped Stude Avanti!

In, for example, a Studebaker Avanti Powershift automatic transmission, what does the term ‘dry’ transmission fluid mean? (Looking for the ‘layman’s’ meaning here!)

Concerning the word ‘replica’, when the ‘65(?)- ‘85 Avantis were being produced in South Bend, it always put a frown on my face when I overheard an ‘uninformed’ person referring to them as ‘replicas’….. and I recall hearing that a lot….Just didn’t seem right to me!!

Such a view!!!!

Yes, an R3 equipped Stude Avanti could have a spacer under the left, or perhaps both, front coil springs!

Hmmm! The definitions of those two words kind of overlap… I’ll go with either/or!

Where are spacers used in a factory Studebaker Avanti R3? (Not body related!)

WOW! What a view… May I ask Bob is this your personal collection, or are these beauties for sale?

Odd that an Avanti R1 fuel pump wasn’t part of the R4 engine package, as opposed to a plugged R2-R3 type ‘supercharger’ pump.

It’s been said that in ‘64, R3 engined Studebaker’s, equipped with the T-10 transmission, had close ratio gearing as standard equipment….However, the close ratio transmission gears were optional on other Studes equipped with the four speed box.

No, apparently the Studebaker ‘61-‘62 T-10 (with the GM bolt pattern) was ‘all Corvette’…. Including the close ratio gearing… excepting for the Studebaker only input shaft.

There’s a company which builds replica Shelby Cobras located just a few miles from where I live, called ‘Factory Five’…. They have been in business since the mid nineties, and a few years ago the local Studebaker Club Chapter was invited to tour their facilities.

Dunlop disc brakes?

So perhaps the Stude 259.2 ???

I think Studebaker, if they had remained in South Bend building cars, should have waited until the 340 CI engine was ready before they used the R4 moniker….. The 305 inch R4 that we know seems to me to be a ‘ragged edge’ engine… over carbureted… with an astronomical 12.5-1 compression ratio…. Not exactly ‘user friendly’ !!!