Nelson
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What two things did the R3 distributor not have that the standard R1/R2 distributor did have?
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Correct. Paxton installed the shifter in exchange for placing Hurst advertising stickers on the doors for the NHRA Winter Nationals at Pamona Dragway.
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Nope
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What is unique about the headliner in the R3 Hot Rod road test Daytona?
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Did the factory install the Hurst shifter in the Hot Rod road test R3 Daytona?
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What was unique about R3 spark plug wires?
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What was the name of the Studebaker transistor ignition system?
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Whoops
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5625? The Prestolite car.
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Tennis balls at the top of fully extended antennas. It was quit a site to see that winter. No Avanti was even partially visible.
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I don’t think any of those were “production” cars.
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5643
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Merry Christmas
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I’ll give it to you Dwight even though they didn’t change the material. What they did was to dye existing and usable salt and pepper pieces black and used them. Quite often you will see this as they fade the salt and pepper starts to show its face.
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Tha R5 had two tone and no stripe.
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Maybe on some but not what I’m looking for.
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What cost savings did Studebaker apply with the 1964 Avanti carpets. Not size, color, number of pieces or vinyl around seat base.
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Stromberg carburation?
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Remembering back in the 70’s during a visit to the Avanti factory and noticing their unique method of identifying the location of their storage lot inventory. Any guesses?
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That theory sounds plausible for the 1963 cars that we’ve seen with stripes but the version I remember is that the stripes on the 64 cars were added while at Paxton Products. Andy G , showman that he was, wanted the cars to look sporty for the press. He hired a local guy who did pin striping to letter all the cars at Paxton at the time. That included the Hot Rod R3 Daytona, the Bonneville competition cars, the Road tested R2 Commander and probably anything else at Paxton that appeared worthy of some glitter work. The pin stripes were white gold leaf with a black pin stripe border. The one potential deviation from this might be the #2 Bonneville Daytona convertible which had a single stripe down the center. I’ve owned that car since I was about 18 years old. The only virgin unpainted part of that car is the cowl grill. That part still has the stripe on it and that stripe appears to be white with red border stripe on one side and blue border stripe on the other. When the car eventually is restored it will get that striping.
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I can’t remember for sure without looking but they might be hand written.
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Since it’s warm inside I thought I’d do the intelligent thing and compare part numbers for the two housings, ie the Lark/ Hawk type and the Avanti type. There are two different part numbers so you are probably correct. I’ve done the clocking to get a Lark type to work on an Avanti but it was Many years ago and it must have had the holes drilled all the way around the housing like many you see out there.
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Ok. I would have tried that but it’s zero outside and not much warmer in the garage.
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Lawn mower throttle cable 🤪
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