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Interesting story. I saw a special on that PBS show GREAT CARS. I had never heard of that brand. I thought it was touching that someone bought the rights to the car to keep building it on a limited production run.
What was also interesting was when it first came out it looked like one of the muscle cars of later years. Pretty advanced early on.
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Some Avanti Specs
debaker Avanti Specifications
Item Data
Engine 90° V-8 OHV, water cooled
Bore 3.56 in.
Stroke 3.52 in.
Piston displacement 289 cu. in.
Compression ratio
w/o supercharger 10.25 to 1
Compression ratio
w/supercharger 9 to 1
Brake horsepower n.a.
Torque n.a.
Brakes Dunlop discs, 11 1/2 in. dia. front
11 in. drums at rear
Transmission 4 speeds forward, one reverse, syncromesh on all forward gears Gear ratios: 1st, 2.51; 2nd, 1.91; 3rd, 1.51; top, 1 to 1
Front suspension Coil springs and sway bar
Rear suspension Semi-elliptic leaf springs and radius rods
Steering Power steering, 3 1/2 turns lock-to-lock
Turning radius 37.5 ft.
Wheelbase 109 in.
Overall length 192.5 in.
Overall width 70.4 in.
Overall height 54 in.
Weight, unladen 3,000 lbs.
1963 Studebaker AvantiStudebaker Advertising
Interesting Avanti Facts.
It’s a fact: The rear window popped out of early production Avantis if driven over 100 mph!
It’s a fact: Ron Hall drove his 1963 Avanti to 200.426 m.p.h. in class DP/S at Bonneville on September 22, 1993.
It’s a fact: Jim Lange drove his twin-turbo Avanti, to a record-setting 211.929 m.p.h. at Bonneville on August 22, 1996.
It’s a fact: A Studebaker Avanti at Salt Lake City achieved a certified 196.62 m.p.h. in 1963.
It’s a fact: Avanti was the first American production automobile to have disc brakes
It’s a fact: “Indy” 500 winner Roger Ward was the World’s first Avanti owner
It’s a fact: The Avanti drag coefficient was estimated in the high 0.30’s when most stock American cars were in the 0.50’s
It’s a fact: Stock Avantis set more than four dozen United States Auto Club records.
It’s a fact: The Avanti appeared in a full page ad for Levis sportwear as “A new class of American automobile.”
It’s a fact: Granetelli broke 29 stock car speed records at Bonneville in 1962
It’s a fact: Raymond Lowey, designer of the Avanti, redesigned Air Force One for JFK.
It’s a fact: Avanti was featured in an industrial design exhibit at the Louvre
It’s a fact: In 1983 hand-crafted Avantis required 1,000 man-hours to make. (Detroit products take 40-80 hours.)
It’s a fact: In 1989 Avantis appeared on the TV show Wheel of Fortune
It’s a fact: In 1989 Scripto gave away an Avanti as first prize in a $1,000,000 promotion (2nd prize was a Thunderbird)!
It’s a fact: Avantis appear several times in the 1998 sci-fi movie, Gattaca
It’s a fact: A red Avanti is parked in front of the high school during the opening credits of the TV series “90210.”
It’s a fact: A plan was devised to stretch the Avanti into a limousine!
It’s a fact: Avantis do appear in Oliver Stone’s film ‘Nixon.’ Try and find them though!
It’s a fact: James Bond clone “Secret Agent Man” drives a mid-seventies silver Avanti
It’s a fact: An R5 engine redlined at 7000 rpm and developed an incredible 575 (possibly 638!) horsepower
It’s a fact: A roll bar and padded dash were standard equipment years before they were offered by other makes.
It’s a fact: A red Avanti convertible appears in the original 1984 movie ‘Karate Kid’.Its so ugly its cute lol.
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