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Ted, if you mouse over a user's display name, you will see a box pop up with a link to send a message, like in the screenshot below when I moused over your display name.
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1 hour ago, mfg said:
We'll wait a bit on the original question......but I'd like to go for the x-tra points now!
Was it exhaust cutouts?
extra points for you!! exhaust cutouts on his California car only.... cable to open and close the exhaust cut-outs were on the console, behind the heater/vent controls on his '63 Avanti 63R-3422. Pull the two handles in front of the automatic gear shifter and the noise quotient goes up!
give up yet on what was unique on 3422 and 4578 under the hood?
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No... Not Chevy engines
I know.... I've been in both... but waiting to see who else might know. (hint: pictures of both have been published in Avanti Magazine)
And for extra points, what performance modification was installed in Loewy's '63 R2 Avanti that he drove in southern California?
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Studebaker International has a full page ad coming in the next Avanti Magazine, and list Avanti sunvisors (along with a picture of both) as part #1347700-1. The ad says to call for availability and price.
Lew
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Don't know which one, but would love to see and publish the photo!
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Joe Erdelac offered the last production Avanti for sale in the early 1970s for $100,000.
You could have bought this car in 1965 from a Motor Trend magazine ad for just over $7,000. Missed out again!
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Yes, FALSE, the Highest ratio, 3.07:1 (lowest numerically) is the correct answer, as MFG says, above.
The LOWEST ratio (Highest numerically) ratio available for an R3 was 4:55. The first of 9 production R3 models came from the factory with a 4.55:1 rear axle ratio. It was a drag race from stoplight to stoplight!
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20 minutes ago, mfg said:
Thanks!, and I agree the washers were an accessory. (Although I don't think I've ever seen a Studebaker Avanti that didn't have windshield washers!)
Now, how about that last item, a definite plainly visible and permanent part of a Studebaker Avanti!
63R-1250 did not come from the factory with a windshield washer. So there must be others without this accessory too.
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False.... it was 3:07
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4 hours ago, mfg said:
OK...I'll give up one of the two cards I'm still holding.............The windshield washer bag!
Now, how about that last one?
Good one.... although one could argue that the windshield washer was an accessory and not all Avantis left the factory with one. So this is not a permanent structure of the car, unlike the 1964 turn signal housing castings.
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2 hours ago, r1lark said:
So.......if Vana is a 1989 Avanti convertible per the posted article, why is the answer False??
Sorry.... it was late and I thought the question said 1988. Question is TRUE..... a 1989.
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I think TRUE.... at least on the 1964 models, the cast turn signal housings have the Lazy S cast into the inside of the housing, directly behind the lens, in front of the bulb.
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The answer is FALSE. Vanna is a 1989 Avanti and was featured in Avanti Magazine #124 Fall/Winter 2003.
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False. The "S" emblems as used on the Avanti were not the "Lazy S" as used on other models.
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False it is. My 1963 Avanti, 63R1250 (the 250th Avanti) is the 16th black Avanti and the first black Avanti with a black interior (actually black & fawn, as all 1963 models had fawn dashes and upper trim).
Long ago, I went through the first about 260-270 production orders and made note of each black Avanti. From my research, I started with the first car and skimmed through production orders, stopping at #1356. By this point, black cars were few and far between. As you know, Studebaker switch from black to gray, then later in production, brought back the black painted cars, as an extra cost option. As you can tell, Black with red interiors were the most popular.
63R-1013: Black w/red interior
63R-1015: Black w/red interior
63R-1017: Black w/red interior
63R-1019: Black w/red interior
63R-1020: Black w/red interior
63R-1021: Black w/red interior
63R-1026: Black w/red interior
63R-1029: Black w/red interior
63R-1150: Black w/red interior
63R-1156: Black w/elk interior
63R-1160: Black w/red interior
63R-1161: Black w/red interior
63R-1193: Black w/red interior
63R-1202: Black w/red interior
63R-1213: Black w/red interior
63R-1250: Black w/black interior (mine)
and continuing....
63R-1257: Black w/red interior
63R-1297: Black w/tourquoise interior
63R-1356: Black w/elk interior
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29 cars in three weeks... I think 1982 was a banner year for Avanti production.
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Yes... Blake
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4) Steel plant, I think.
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False: The R3 engine is 304.5-cu .in., with 320 Ft-Lbs of torque @ 4000 RPM
The R2 Horsepower: 2889 cu.in, with 289hp at 5200 rpm and 330 lbs.-ft. of torque at 3600 rpm
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Probably not Blake... since he was always making changes....
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I think False. Don't think I have seen any in these years.
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All of the above !!
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Thanks for the tip.... I'd like to use it in the next magazine. Did you take any photos while doing the repair?
Lew
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After the pads get about half worn, they begin to not press against the rotor flat and squarely and not stopping the car as fast as with new pads. They wear in a diaganal pattern.
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Finally, an answer! I thought someone else would know this one!
First photo is R4578, still on the road in France. Second photo is R3422, still on the road in southern California.