Avanti Torino?

[mfg]

What mid sixties Ford vehicle was built with and displayed the name ‘Studebaker’?

[Gunslinger]

If I remember correctly...the Shelby Mustang GT-350s equipped with Paxton superchargers had a sticker on the supercharger body with Paxton's name and listing it as a division of the Studebaker Corporation.  

[mfg]

2 hours ago, Gunslinger said:

If I remember correctly...the Shelby Mustang GT-350s equipped with Paxton superchargers had a sticker on the supercharger body with Paxton's name and listing it as a division of the Studebaker Corporation.  

Yep!…. You got it Gun!!

[Geoff]

I've visited Las Vegas a handful of times over the last eight years. I managed to hit up the Shelby museum a couple times because I wanted photos of the radiator isolation box and A-pillar fences/strakes on the Daytona Coupe.

Anyway, here's one of the two blowers (other visible in background) on the remaining Cobra made as described in Bill Cosby's "200 MPH" comedic routine.
Visible if you zoom in, "Manufactured by Paxton Products a div. of Studebaker Corp. Exclusively for Shelby American Inc."

[mfg]

Twin Paxton’s on a 427 CI Ford V8… I wonder if that engine was ever dynoed?

Can you say overkill??

Edited January 13 by mfg

[Geoff]

CSX3015 has a twin Paxton blown 427 FE engine producing 800 horsepower to motivate 2350 pounds. 60 comes in less than 4 seconds if the tires can actually find and hold traction. Oh to feel that experience some how, some day.

[Nelson]

I remember that 427 Cobra was tested and had some crazy zero to 100 mph and back to zero times of something like 12 seconds? What ever the time was it was just mind boggling at the time.

[mfg]

5 hours ago, Nelson said:

I remember that 427 Cobra was tested and had some crazy zero to 100 mph and back to zero times of something like 12 seconds? What ever the time was it was just mind boggling at the time.

Yes… Carroll Shelby certainly had that little car zeroed in!

There was a new 427 Cobra which sat on the showroom floor at Tasca Ford in Providence, R.I. for several months. (back in the day)….. Like Studebaker Avantis, some new Cobras were a tough sell…..

If I remember correctly, the dealership was asking around $6500 for that car.

 

 

[Geoff]

Carroll Shelby pretty much guaranteed the 427 Cobra could 0-100-0 in under 14.5 seconds. Ken Miles accomplished a 13.8 second time, and the record is 10.3 seconds. I don't know if the double Paxton Cobra could do much better? Well, unless slicks were involved on a VHT prep'd surface. Then decreasing braking distance requires wider front tires, stickier rubber, or as Colin Chapman said, "adding lightness." Might as well VHT the whole anticipated distance so the stickiness also helps in the 100-0 section.

If that $6500 was witnessed in 1965, 2025 dollars would equal $64,729.48. I understand why they'd sit. The reliable $25k car is hard to come by these days.
Flipping the values, $25k today would be $2510.45 in 1965.