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It definitely reminds me of the original Studebaker Avanti steering wheel!

That ‘200’ figure came from an ad Paxton Products (Granatellis) ran when they were selling off their remaining Studebaker parts inventory…. I’d bet 99% of those new Carter AFB carbs were types made for Stude Avanti R1, 2, 3, and 4 engines.

Ooooh Florida… sounds warm!… we’ve had quite a cold spell up here in Mass!!

Yes Paul… even you!!!….and all my Stude buddies from the great State of Maine!

I like the two spoke steering wheel… As you say, the three spoke types tend to block the gauges.

Merry Christmas to all of my Avanti Forum friends!!

Guesses always welcome here Wdaly!

Well, I guess going to college was worth it… because you are CORRECT Dwight!!!

No thoughts/ guesses here?

I knew a fellow who purchased a brand new ‘58 Packard Hawk in late 1959…. Like many Studebaker Avantis, it sat on the dealer lot for quite awhile until the ‘right’ person came along…… George kept that Hawk for approx thirty years, and actually bought a second one sometime in the late sixties! Like many Avanti owners, he couldn’t own just one!!!

Ford could have at least come up with a name other than Mustang for that “car”???

A Studebaker—Packard—Hudson—Nash merger certainly would have have been interesting!

Nothing good!….Ask any Ford dealer!!!!!

After what happened to the poor Ford Mustang, do we really want to see a battery powered Avanti??

The (I believe) four Packard Panther sports cars created in the early fifties looked a bit strange…. However, the Packard Predictor show car of 1956 really looked outstanding! It’s worth a trip to the SNM just to see that car!

The only difference between those heads is indeed combustion chamber volume.

I get originality.. it’s important to identify what’s correct and what isn’t… Having said that, it’s sure hard to beat the ‘look’ of Dayton wire wheels on a Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk!!

Beautiful Super Hawk!…. If the set of Halibrand wheels on your ‘64 Daytona HRM car are the “second” type… I think I prefer the look of those to the look of the “ first “ style Halibrands on your ‘63 Hawk.

I think Studebaker’s giving up the right to distribute Mercedes Benz vehicles in the U.S. was also a major mistake…. Not to mention passing up Volkswagen!!

I don’t think so Mike… When you add up everything that was going against continued auto production in South Bend by the early sixties, it would have been next to impossible to last more than a couple years more than they did.

Good coin flip!…. Correct!

The moonroof glass, sliding panel etc. are all removed from the top… I’d go as far as possible from outside your Avanti… and at that point headliner access should be a lot better.

No, apparently not…. the info I’ve seen does not indicate fourteen.

Hard to believe that names so familiar to us…..Pontiac…….Oldsmobile…….Plymouth…….Mercury…. have become footnotes in history…Yes, very hard to believe!

James Nance apparently did his darndest to rally support ($$$$$) for the Packard division of S-P… however, it was too little too late.