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mfg

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  1. A Studebaker—Packard—Hudson—Nash merger certainly would have have been interesting!
  2. Nothing good!….Ask any Ford dealer!!!!!
  3. After what happened to the poor Ford Mustang, do we really want to see a battery powered Avanti??
  4. 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!
  5. The only difference between those heads is indeed combustion chamber volume.
  6. 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!!
  7. 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.
  8. 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!!
  9. 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.
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    Avanti LSC’s!

    Good coin flip!…. Correct!
  11. 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.
  12. mfg

    Avanti LSC’s!

    No, apparently not…. the info I’ve seen does not indicate fourteen.
  13. Hard to believe that names so familiar to us…..Pontiac…….Oldsmobile…….Plymouth…….Mercury…. have become footnotes in history…Yes, very hard to believe!
  14. James Nance apparently did his darndest to rally support ($$$$$) for the Packard division of S-P… however, it was too little too late.
  15. You may need to bring your Avanti to a local auto paint supplier that has the camera that can photograph your paint and determine a color formula…Free service if you purchase paint!
  16. True…. Packard would have probably lasted into the early sixties if not for the Studebaker “goof”… and dragging their feet on styling and engineering… however, ultimately GM and Ford were unbeatable.
  17. Too bad about Packard… In my humble opinion the high quality but hopelessly homely ‘48-‘50 ‘Bathtub’ design, and lack of a V8 engine until 1955, killed them.
  18. mfg

    Avanti LSC’s!

    Sorry, not nine cars!
  19. mfg

    Avanti Prize!

    #4 it is!… a man, and a tall, nice looking woman!
  20. mfg

    Avanti Prize!

    Sorry, not #3!
  21. In the somewhat famous photo of Indy winner Rodger Ward becoming the world’s first Studebaker Avanti owner, he is shown with two other people…..Those other people were ………? 1) Studebaker Execs….2) Indy Speedway Execs……3) Egbert and Indy Studebaker Dealer…..or…4) A couple of Ward’s friends
  22. I think he came up with the design of what was supposed to be the ‘every man’s’ bread and butter Avanti-like sedan … The concept car was built in France, and Mr. Ebstein’s ability to speak French certainly helped this endeavor!
  23. In 1966, Paxton Products had brand new Carter AFB carbs for sale from their stock of …..?….. of these. 1) fifty…..2) one hundred…..3) two hundred…. or….3) two hundred fifty
  24. Avanti Motors built ….?…. LSC models in model year 1987. 1) six…..2) nine…3) eleven…. or…. 4) fourteen
  25. He was quite the administrator… Raymond Loewy’s ‘ Right Arm’!
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