64Avanti

Looks like you are just north of Austin.

Here are some pictures the car. Being a 73 it has the 400 cubic inch engine. Frame only has surface rust.

Moving to just outside New Braunfels

I am moving from California to Texas and have several cars to ship and at this point limited room. The car is a 73 that I purchased as a project car. The body is good, never damaged. The frame and hog troughs are good. Dash is bad. Car ran ok but has not been driven for quite a few years. I am looking to get about $2500 for it. You can contact me at DLsys73@gmail.com or 408-209-8874 (you can also send text).

I have run my 260 cubic inch Bonneville engine to 8,000 rpm. It is de-stroked to to 3.15 and overbored .0622.

The ones that Lionel Stone had cast used the original tooling. They were somewhat difficult to get good castings. When we used that tooling back around 1972 the foundry had to scrap about 20% of them.

He should order a rule book and determine what class he might fit into with the LS3 before he spends a lot of money to modify the car with a full roll cage, replacing side and rear windows, installing engine and interior fire extinguisher system, parachute etc. etc.

As to the question that was asked about stock or modified although I very much appreciate a well restored vehicle to original condition I have a habit of modifying cars. I can't help myself. In the end I would say it is your car do what you want.

With an LS3 engine in the Avanti you are looking at being in an altered class (I am out of California at the moment so can't be specific.) and the record for that is way over 200 mph. The current record for a supercharged Avanti in the classic supercharged class is about 199 and is held by Dave Bloomberg. This class requires using the original engine which can be modified but you can't do an engine swap. By the way it takes about 600 hp to go 200 mph in an Avanti.

What 170 mph land speed record? There isn't a current 170 mph record that would apply to an Avanti with an LS3.

Actually the 299 R3 was not stroked, it was just .060 over. The proof is the R3 crankshaft drawing shows that it is for the 299 and 304 engine.