Supercharger color

[63stick]

Every Paxton I see in cars is orange like the fans. Mine is original and gloss black. Mine is one of the first 100 built. Did the color get changed? Nobody has ever touched mine except to change oil.

[1963r2]

I thought they changed color when they got rebuilt. 

Pb

[Bob Preston]

Perhaps this is a question for the trivia page. The production data booklet only mentions orange as the factory color. 

[Ron Dame]

R1092 was mine. Though I have little history on it, the supercharger was black, and had what I believe to have been original stickers. As of Fall, Lance Bush of the Restored youtube page owned it and was trying to sell it.

[mfg]

This question has been batted around for years…….

For authenticity judging at AOAI meets, either orange or black is acceptable .

Personally, I feel that although an orange supercharger ‘presents’ itself better, Studebaker intended the superchargers on Avantis be painted black, as much of their early advertising indicated.