mfg Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 (edited) The original body number issued to the first production Studebaker Avanti (63R1001) was......................? 1) RQ101.....2) 63RQ......3) 63RQ101......or.....4) 63RQ1001 Edited August 21, 2018 by mfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studegary Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 6 hours ago, mfg said: The original body number issued to the first production Studebaker Avanti (63R1001) was......................? 1) RQ101.....2) 63RQ......3) 63RQ101......or.....4) 63RQ1001 1) RQ101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 I ought to know better by now to go against what Gary says, but.............. I'll say #3, 63RQ101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 hours ago, studegary said: 1) RQ101 Sorry, not RQ101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, r1lark said: I ought to know better by now to go against what Gary says, but.............. I'll say #3, 63RQ101 Sorry no, the designation on the body tag wasn't 63RQ101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studegary Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, r1lark said: I ought to know better by now to go against what Gary says, but.............. I'll say #3, 63RQ101 Don't feel that way. Some of these trivia questions I know the answer to and others, like this one, I just make a "stab" at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 minute ago, studegary said: Don't feel that way. Some of these trivia questions I know the answer to and others, like this one, I just make a "stab" at. Keep stabbing Gary!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 No other thoughts here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studegary Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 11 minutes ago, mfg said: No other thoughts here? Okay, I will guess RQ 1001 or 63RQ 1001 to conform to your question.. Edited July 29, 2018 by studegary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 2 minutes ago, studegary said: Okay, I will guess RQ 1001. Sorry, RQ1001 is not the correct answer. Edited July 29, 2018 by mfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studegary Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, mfg said: Sorry, RQ1001 is not the correct answer. So you are saying that it really didn't have a body number (therefore there is no correct answer to your question as originally posed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, studegary said: So you are saying that it really didn't have a body number (therefore there is no correct answer to your question as originally posed). Well Gary, '63' (of course the model year) IS a number!!!!! But seriously, the answer to this question is #..... 63RQ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Sure would like to see a photograph of the body number plate on 63R1001...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 hours ago, r1lark said: Sure would like to see a photograph of the body number plate on 63R1001...................... The body plate would probably read "63RQ101".....Why?...because initially there were no numbers assigned to this car...as per the PO, the body was simply referred to as "63RQ"....then, at some later date, the "101" number was assigned to this Avanti.......Remember, my question stated "original"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 According the parts manual, the Ashtabula supplied bodies had tags beginning with "RQ101"...no "63 or any other prefix. Factory manuals have been known to have errors but without a photo of the body tag in question as provenance I would accept the factory manual as authoritative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted July 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 (edited) On 7/29/2018 at 7:31 PM, Gunslinger said: According the parts manual, the Ashtabula supplied bodies had tags beginning with "RQ101"...no "63 or any other prefix. Factory manuals have been known to have errors but without a photo of the body tag in question as provenance I would accept the factory manual as authoritative. More power to you...however, I'm looking at a copy of 63R1001's production order, where it's clearly typed "Body Number- 63RQ"....and then (in a different, much bolder type) "101" was added at a later date. Remember, although this first production Studebaker Avanti was eventually sold to a private individual (a Mr. Goldfarb) it was first sent to Studebaker service school's to familiarize technicians with this new model Studebaker! Edited August 21, 2018 by mfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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