Studebaker Avanti's Influence

"While the Avanti didn't save Studebaker in the 1960s, its design and life-saving technology lives on in current automobiles."

Studebaker Avanti - An Affordable Icon

The NY Times profiles some of the many faces of Avanti.

"1963 STUDEBAKER AVANTI R-1 $11,000 to $33,000. The original article with road-sniffing rake and round headlight trim. Less expensive than a supercharged R-2. Forget about finding an authentic R-3; only a few were made, though many clones exist."

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A Poem for the Studebaker Avanti

This Studebaker Avanti sales film (video) reads like Shakespeare for the automobile. Love the overhead "jet air controls."

Tom and Ray are Realistic Dream Killers

Tom and Ray are right about old car dependability, parts hunting, safety, etc. However, the parts hunting, the times when a classic car is running like a clock, the beautiful design, the interaction with interested strangers - all of these factors outweigh the difficulty of maintaining a classic car.

My advice to Gary: buy the Versa and the Avanti.

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Studebaker Avanti - 4-Door Concept Cars

There has been much discussion online about the 4-door Studebaker Avanti concept cars. Here are a few pics of them at the Studebaker National Museum. A must-see in person!

Studebaker Avanti - Model

There are many excellent attractions at the Studebaker National Museum. This Studebaker Avanti clay model is an amazing example of car design technique from the 1960s.

Studebaker Avanti 4-Door - Porsche Panamera 4-Door

I'm calling it ...

Porsche tapped the Studebaker Avanti 4-door design in creating its 4-door Panamera. The bottom-most photograph say it all. : P

Read more about the Studebaker Avanti 4-door here.

California State Fair - Studebaker

The Karel Staple Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club exhibited its collection of amazing cars at the California State Fair last weekend, but there is another Studebaker that is part of the California Automobile Museum's permanent exhibition - the Studebaker Avanti. This is the same car that beat the land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Picture below.

1969 Avanti II - New York, NY

The NY Times has an excellent audio and pictorial slide show of this 1969 Studebaker Avanti II.

"The car was a 1969 Avanti II. It looked both retro and futuristic, something that might have been driven by Serge Gainsbourg in 1960s Paris, or perhaps by Neo from “The Matrix.”

"It was just love. That's all it was."

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How to Drive Like the MAD MEN - Top 10 Cars of the MAD MEN Era

Hagerty Picks Stylish, Sophisticated Collector Cars that Epitomize the Don Draper Lifestyle.

"Hagerty, the country's leading provider of collector car insurance, has put together its picks of the collector cars that the most powerful and influential professionals of the MAD MEN era would have driven." The 1963 Studebaker Avanti and the 1964 GT Hawk made the list! (of course)

Cars include:

- 1963 Buick Riviera ($28,000-$36,100)
- 1963 Corvette Sting Ray ($61,000-$74,000)
- 1961-63 Ford Thunderbird ($35,000-$45,000)
- 1961-63 Lincoln Continental Sedan ($18,000-$24,000)
- 1961 Chrysler 300G ($59,000-$67,000)
- 1963 Studebaker Avanti ($23,000-$31,000)
- 1962-63 Cadillac Coupe De Ville ($14,000-$20,000)
- 1962-64 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk ($27,000-$32,000)
- 1963 Buick Electra 225 ($13,000-$19,000)
- 1963 Ford Galaxie XL Convertible ($31,000-$36,000)

Read the full list of cars and their details here.

Jalopnik.com DOTS: Two Studebakers. We Can Do Better.

This is a rallying cry. Jalopnik.com publishes a feature named "Down on the Street" (aka DOTS). The DOTS articles highlight unique, classic, venerated, adored ... any vehicles worthy of discussion. And of the 200 DOTS to date, only a Lark VIII and an Avanti have been featured from the Studebaker bloodline.

While I love both the Avanti and the Lark, Studebaker owners need to show the breadth, depth, and engineering excellence of the Studebaker name with a few more Studes. Let's get a Speedster DOTS. I'm considering a trek from Sacramento to the Alameda with our trusty '50 bulletnose Champion.

Anyone else "in"? And hopefully, geographically closer?

See all 200 cars recorded in Jalopnik's feature, Down on the Street.