X-less Avanti!

[mfg]

Anyone in the New England area remember seeing an (at the time) engineless 'Avanti Red' '63 Avanti with an exceptionally nice original exterior/ interior?   (was R2, four speed car)

This Avanti would be memorable because someone had removed the "X" member from the frame.....no idea what its owner had in mind!

I looked at the car at a Ford dealer in Wakefield, Mass several years ago..they were trying to sell the Avanti and three other nice, low mileage Studes  in a package deal.

[Gunslinger]

There's the possibility the car was re-framed with a non-X member frame.  

[CaptainChaos]

Probably a lark sedan frame.