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That wire gives the horn button a good ground to chassis… Although your horn may work without it, it really should be there.. I’d re-connect it.

Sorry…. Not Poncho!!

Sure looks pretty!!

Back when the folks at Paxton Products were scrambling to sell off the last of their Studebaker R3/R4 engines... and were running short of some of the special parts required to build these engines, engine valves were supposedly sourced from …..?….. 1) Chrysler…..2) Pontiac….3) Lincoln…..or…..4) American Motors

It takes all kinds!!

Remarkable… very nicely done!

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.

I wonder if the one or two experimental 340 CI Studebaker engine blocks, that made it out of the factory, had any type of numbering I.D. on them?

The Avanti factory installed a proportioning valve on their 1983 models… However, (I think) they used it because the rear drum brakes on the ‘83’s, although the same size as the rear brakes on Studebaker Avantis, were self-energizing and had more stopping power.

Those plugs are ‘oldies but goodies’….NICE!

Ha ha!!!!!!!!!!

45 lbs?….Whoa!!!!!

Paul, I have Magnums like yours on my Avanti…. however my center caps are much deeper, (or one could say ‘taller’ than yours) Too bad you can’t find a set of caps like mine, as they are retained by a cone shaped inner bracket, with two 1/4” short bolts passing through the cone and into the back of the center cap…. Bulletproof, and very easy to remove & install. ( sorry my comment doesn’t really help with your issue!)

A really good grease job on the front suspension may help some… paying particular attention to make sure the grease comes out both the bottom & top of the king pins… sometimes it’s a struggle to get the grease to come out the top around the needle bearing.. but it’s a MUST that it does.. rotating that needle bearing with vise grips will help to work the grease into it. Also… I wouldn’t mount a tire any wider than a 205 on an Avanti with manual steering.

It served a purpose… but truly was a monstrosity!!

Looks like 63R4223 went to an excellent home!!

Absolutely beautiful engine & installation!! Can you please post info on the aluminum radiator which you purchased?

Ditto….Great photo!

Fasten seat belt light used on earlier Avsntis, and then discontinued by ‘84 and left in harness?

Is there any supercharger bracketry still on the engine?

Kind of hard to believe it’s the same Avanti?

Years ago there was a white, mid seventies Avanti ll, once owned by Dr. Joyce Brothers, in my neck of the woods… It had the same red/white interior as in your photo… I remember it was quite breathtaking!!

That’s right… In the ‘85 model year.. the Avanti factory referred to their production (not prototype) convertibles as ‘RQC’s’.

What is the main difference between an RQB and an RQC Avanti?

Yes Nels, A physician who lived in Newburyport, Mass ordered the car in late ‘55… The purchase order notes ‘special order’, monochromatic velvet black, overdrive, power steering, and delete hood and fender top ornaments. Also, there’s a Speedster streamer attached at the body tag so, I guess, folks on production line would understand what was going on. The car was driven to 130K, then in 1965 its 259 engine spun a bearing and the car was put into storage for years. I purchased it in 1990, and gave it a fairly nice restoration, including complete rebuild of the original engine, repaint, new leather interior, etc. Back in 1990 I really wasn’t looking to purchase a Speedster, as I had owned one previously, and had moved on to Avantis, however, I felt this one was an oddity I couldn’t pass up. PS…. At local Stude meets I made up a little sign I place in front of this Stude… l refer to it as…’THE DOCTOR’S CAR’!