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This is a totally new model and very finely and authentically produced.
The Homage edition is a limited edition.
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Thanks!! I usually try to get the orders sent within a day or two. Glad that you like the new calendar!
Lew
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More information is at:
http://www.dlindner....e,_S._Bend.html
Description:
2,124 Sq. Ft. Built 1921
Zoned residential.
10 Rooms, 6 Bedrooms.
Michigan Basement, Alleyway.
Double lot. 8,712 sq. Ft. .20 Ac.
1st Floor Brick, upper 1/3 frame w/asphalt simulated brick shingles.
Gas heat, 2 ea. (9/12), Central Air 2 ea. (4/13).
Features excellent woodwork in some areas. 1st Floor floors are hardwood and 2nd Floor, pine (this is traditional).
Special basement, called a Michigan Basement where nearly all of it is brick.
Several use options exist, including a second home for us, a guest house with
pictures, posters of Avantis, and other memorabilia.
Area attractions: Studebaker National Museum, Indiana History Museum, Oliver Mansion (All just across the street), river in downtown S. Bend, Notre Dame University, Studebaker Mansion restaurant (Tippecanoe Place), Amish Country and Studebaker Proving Grounds (Bosch).
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He is also an AOAI board member. His contact information is in the front of any recent Avanti Magazine.
Well, Kick me in --- . I totally missed it, read the write up and right above it is his name. Now I can hope he's a member of one of the forums.
Gotta hang it closer to the desk and upgrade my reading skills. Thanks Bruce
Bob
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Can we get one autographed?
Good question. I should check with Andy Beckman to see if he wants to autograph them. Although if you are going to the meet at the end of next month in South Bend, I'm sure he would autograph your book if asked.
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Studebaker National Museum archivist Andrew Beckman has recently released his newest book, "Studebaker's Last Dance: The Avanti."
The new book studies the Avanti automobile from its Studebaker heritage to its early design ideas, ending with the last model produced in 2007. It includes many interesting facts and figures and many more rare photographs from the Studebaker Museum's archives.
The book is available for sale through the Avanti Owner's Association's website. See the link below.
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Here are two more sidebars from Sunday's NY Times:
Tthis short blog explains the company's and Mike Kelly's situation. I wonder if all this publicity could lead to someone purchasing the rights to build the cars again?
We can only hope!!
For Sale: Avantis and Studebakers. Must Have Good References.
New York Times (blog)
The collection of the last builder of Avanti vehicles is exiled in Mexico,
as Tudor Van Hampton writes in Sunday's Automobiles section.
An Affordable Icon
New York Times
In all its forms, the Avanti still turns heads, but its value as a
collectible has never equaled its stature as a design icon. Here are a few
examples.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/automobiles/collectibles/avanti-an-affordable-icon.html
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This Sunday's (June 17) will feature three feature articles on the Avanti and Raymond Loewy, in commemoration of the automobile's 50th anniversary.
They are all posted now on the newspaper's website and offer text and commentary from Studebaker National Museum archivist Andrew Beckman and AOAI president John Hull.
A Classic From Loewy's Portfolio
New York Times
The Avanti's origins are wrapped in legend, thanks to one of the greatest
sources of legends in the world of design, Raymond Loewy. The work of
Loewy, ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/automobiles/a-classic-from-loewys-portfolio.html?pagewanted=all
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From Savior to Orphan
New York Times
Raymond Loewy, the celebrated industrial designer, directed the development
of its extraterrestrial styling. Even so, the Avanti has not appreciated in
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A Maker's Beloved Designs
New York Times
STUDEBAKER hired Raymond Loewy in 1936, who then brought in top talent like
Virgil Exner from Pontiac and later, Gordon Buehrig, a designer for Auburn,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/automobiles/a-makers-beloved-designs.html
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It was just brought to my attention that the phone number we published on the AOAI/SDC Meet Registration Form (pg 25 of issue 158) is incorrect.
The number published is Cornerstone Registration's fax number. The correct phone number is 763-420-7829.
Phone: 763-420-7829
Fax: 763-420-7849
Lew
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The new issue of Old Cars Weekly and their email newsletter this week highlights AOAI president John Hull's feature story on the Avanti celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
Read the story here: http://bit.ly/avanti50
The new issue also list 2011 winners of the coveted Golden Quill Award, and Avanti Magazine -- and the SDC's Turning Wheels too -- again received top honors in the National Luxury Division.
In addition, several SDC local chapter newsletters also received awards.
Read the story and list of winners here: http://bit.ly/JC3HFK
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Paul:
I have your avatar photo tied to your posts and logon now. I had to change the path of on the server where you uploaded your avatar. It should hopefully be good now for you and others.
Sorry for the trouble earlier.
Lew
I can't seem to figure out how to post an avatar photo (or any photo for that matter) to the forum website. Can anyone out there give me a walk through? Thanks, Paul
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His domain had to be changed to http://www.theavanti.net
The website host he was using went out of business and there was apparently no way to transfer the domain to another web host server.
And who do we contact to bring it back?
I would gladly contribute time and money to have it restored.
Prof. Aqualung
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The 2011 Avanti Roster has an index.
Or order an up to date index from Don Lindner from our ad in any Avanti Magazine, or email dlindner@mac.com
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What's up with the AOAI web site. There is virtually nothing there. Is there another one that I haven't found yet? One that at least mentions something about the 2012 meet?
It is still working, and has links to other information on the AOAI and chapters. http://www.aoai.org/
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Andrew Geller, Modernist Architect, Is Dead at 87
By FRED A. BERNSTEIN
Published: December 26, 2011
Andrew Geller, an architect who embodied postwar ingenuity and optimism in a series of inexpensive beach houses in whimsical shapes, many of them in the Hamptons, and who helped bring modernism to the masses with prefabricated cottages sold at Macy’s, died on Sunday in Syracuse. He was 87 and lived in Spencer, N.Y.
The cause was kidney failure, said his grandson Jake Gorst.
At the industrial design firm Raymond Loewy & Associates (later Raymond Loewy/William Snaith Inc.), where he worked for 35 years, Mr. Geller designed the “typical American house” shown at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. The house ignited the famous Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev over the buying power of American and Soviet consumers.
The model shown in Moscow led to a line of vacation houses, sold in the 1960s under the name Leisurama. One of the houses, complete with picture window and carport, was displayed on the ninth floor of Macy’s in Herald Square; people came in to buy housewares and walked out owning houses. (A basic model required a down payment of $490, followed by monthly payments of $73.) Some 200 Leisurama houses were built in Culloden Point, a section of Montauk, on Long Island, and hundreds more outside Fort Lauderdale.
But for all his experimentation with mass marketing under the Loewy aegis, Mr. Geller was best known for one-of-a-kind houses that he designed on his own time in his studio in Northport, N.Y., whose distinctive shapes earned them nicknames like the Box Kite, the Milk Carton and the Grasshopper.
“On first impression, these beach houses seem like caricatures, one-liners,” the architectural historian Alastair Gordon wrote in a 1999 New York Times profile of Mr. Geller, but “they represented a kind of everyman modernism that was both playful and accessible, with most houses costing less than $10,000.” Critics have described them as sharing an underlying spirit with Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in the Hamptons of the 1950s.
The first of the houses was designed for Elizabeth Reese, a Loewy executive. Mr. Geller deflected complaints from building officials about its unusual A-frame design, saying it was derived from local potato barns.
After that house was featured in The Times in May 1957, a stream of cars drove down Daniels Lane hoping to get a closer look at it, and Mr. Geller received many more commissions. Among the houses he created in the next few years were the Pearlroth House, which looked like a double box-kite to some (and to others a wooden brassiere).
In 1958, on assignment for Esquire, he designed a portable house that could be towed to any beach and erected on stilts for $3,000. “Its refrigerator will not hold more than a weekend supply of tonic and soda,” the magazine reported. “However, the Esquire Weekend House has no lawns to mow, no sash to paint, and can be opened for the season in four minutes flat.”
In the 1960s Mr. Geller moved on to houses with oddly shaped windows cut into flat facades, like architectural versions of Cubist paintings. They included a house in Sagaponack, N.Y., that some said resembled a reclining nude by Picasso.
Andrew Michael Geller was born in Brooklyn on April 17, 1924, to Joseph Geller, an artist who earned a living painting signs, and his wife, Olga. They were both immigrants from Russia. The youngest of three children, he studied architecture at the Cooper Union.
During World War II he enlisted in the Army and, during basic training in Louisiana, was exposed to a chemical agent that caused him health problems for the rest of his life, his grandson said.
In 1944 he married Shirley Morris, who died last year. He is survived by a son, Gregg; a daughter, Jamie Dutra; three grandchildren, including Mr. Gorst, a documentary filmmaker specializing in architecture; and four step-grandchildren.
In recent years Mr. Geller’s playful houses were the subjects of books and articles, but most of those houses now exist mainly in memories and black-and-white photographs. Mr. Gordon recalled driving around the Hamptons with Mr. Geller in 1999, trying to find some of the scores of houses he had built there. Altogether, they located fewer than a dozen. Mr. Geller said he felt like he had lost his children.
A version of this article appeared in print on December 27, 2011, on page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Andrew Geller, 87, Modernist Architect, Dies.
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If anyone is in the LA area on Saturday morning, or Sunday after about 11 a.m., Daniel will be at the LA Modern Auction in Van Nuys; you might want to visit to see Raymond Loewy's custom 1963 Avanti . There is also internet bidding that you can find details in the second link below, where you can register and place your bid.
You can read more at this link here:
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/wheelies-the-leap-year-edition/
and see the auction page here:
http://lamodern.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/7/lot/2598/
I will be there Saturday and Sunday, along with a photographer for a French classic car magazine. We'll be trying to also photograph several other Avantis in the area through Tuesday.
If you get a chance, stop by the auction in Van Nuys, Calif., at 16145 Hart Steet, Van Nuys, CA 91406
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For those interested in expanding their Studebaker or Avanti collection, a 1963 R2 Avanti originally owned by designer Raymond Loewy, is coming up for auction, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at the Los Angeles Modern Auctions, 16145 Hart St. Van Nuys, CA 91406.
This Avanti is 63R-3422, an R2/Automatic automobile. More information is available in the following link:
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You'll see a full report on the repair in the upcoming issue of Avant Magazine, Fall/Winter 2011 Issue 156. It is due in the mail this Tuesday.
Lew
The repairs look great...the new door fits better than the old door. Heck of a way to get that, though. It's bugging me that I can't put a coat of wax on the car yet...have to make sure the new paint cures fully. I'll have to wait until springtime to take care of that.
The body shop got an excellent used door and a NOS fender from Dan Booth at Nostalgic Motors. The repairs went smoothly...the fiberglass guy at the body shop has 25+ years experience with Corvettes so he wasn't the least bit afraid about what he had to do.
I ended up having to replace the brake booster and master cylinder...I had a modern booster and a Wilwood master cylinder and the brakes now have a very modern feel to them. At the same time I had an electric fan installed...that makes a great deal of difference in cooling. The speed shop that took care of that made it look like a factory installation.
Thanks for asking!
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Lew,
Nice job with the pix! I was very impressed with the number of fine looking Avanti's on the field at the first AOAI meet I attended. Yes, there were "trailer queens", but the vast majority were driven to the meet. Thanks also for putting people's names with their cars. Great job!
Thanks!! We were not thinking of using names with all the photos, but most online galleries for Studebakers or Avanti shows just put up the pictures and nothing to identify them. Since I kept track of all the cars, owners and registrations last Saturday, it was fairly easy to do.... just took a little longer to compile everything.
It's nice to put a name or face with an Avanti!!
I was especially impressed with the overall quality of all the cars. They all looked great, and most received enough points for a 1st place award.
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Virtually every Avanti on display or the general parking area at the Gettysburg AOAI/Keystone SDC meet is including in our Avanti Owners Association photo gallery. There are also a few other Studebakers included too.
If we missed any cars, it's because some might have left the show field early, but most should be included.
http://www.aoai.org/gettysburg2011/avanticoncours/index.html
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I was at a car show yesterday in Red Bank, N.J. There was a pretty 63 R2 with about 36,000 miles (round headlights). That car had the Willard battery. This was a really nice original car. Sadly, not for sale as they just got the car back from Myers for some work as they said.
Jim, if you saw the white Avanti at the AOAI meet last week, it is original, low mileage and still has the original Willard battery that came with the car. He had the battery rebuilt a number of times.
It has the red caps, tar top and red Willard name on the outside of the case (not engine side).
Antique Battery Co. in Ohio sells reproduction Willard batteries in the 3DEE size that look very similar to the originals, with one exception; The Williard name is not red, and the name faces the engine, and not the inner fender. This battery is a gel cell type battery, the similar to the Optima brand of battery.
I have one in my black Avanti and it works well, and cranks better than it ever did with a conventional battery.
Lew
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The Universal Vintage Tire Co, in Hershey, Penn., also sells these tires, but the pictures on their website look exactly like the tire I got from Coker Tire. As Jim mentions, it is about one inch taller and one inch wider than the original 670-15 tire, and fully inflated, will not fit in the Avanti spare tire well and allow the cover to fit flush with the trunk floor.
I let at least half of the air out of the tire, and was able to put the lid in place correctly, but latching the lid is still a problem.
These tires are now reproduced in China; I saw another Avanti last week with this tire that was purchased from Universal a number of years ago. His tire was a tight fit, but allowed the tire cover to fit flush with the trunk floor. However his spare tire indicated that it was manufactured in the USA!! Apparently the Chinese reproductions are coming from a different mould that is slightly oversize and has different lettering and tread pattern.
Lew
Thank you, I have not seen an original tire yet so can not compare. It may not be exact but is as close as we can do. Although I am a complete factory original nut, there is no way I would run my car on 50 year old tires. Maybe someday in the future a better reproduction can be made. Thanks again for the informative report. I will make note of it.
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After storage and sitting on display (not running) for approximately 8 years, this historic Avanti is running again and almost road worthy.
watch the video in the link below:
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After storage and sitting on display (not running) for approximately 8 years, this historic Avanti is running again and almost road worthy.
watch the video in the link below:
2014 Avanti Calendar
in Avanti Pub
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We already have a number of great photos for the 2014 Avanti calendar, but I am still looking for more great photos.
If you already had your car featured in a previous calendar, please do not respond, since I like to give everyone a chance to have their car featured.
Please respond to my email editor@aoai.org and let me know if you have something appropriate.
Digital images are acceptable, but should be 300dpi at about 2400 pixels or greater. Also need views of the engine compartment, interior or other unique features of your Avanti.
Thanks in advance to all those who already submitted a photo.
Lew