A Studebaker Avanti. Neat little car. I've seen my share of them. Except this one was white... with a 502 CI engine.
Sounded mean. the license plate said "saybyby" or something to that effect. It was gone before I could get a picture.
Little background on the car from Wikipedia...
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To put the performance of Studebaker's 289 V8 in perspective, the Ford 289 V8, as used in the 1965–1967 Mustangs, produced 210 horsepower with a two-barrel carburetor, 220 horsepower with a four-barrel carburetor, and 271 horsepower in Ford's high-compression, solid-lifter, four-barrel "K-code" engine. Thus, Studebaker's "Jet Thrust" 289 V8s were significantly more powerful than any 289 production engine offered by Ford through 1967 (in 1968, Ford began relying on the new 302 cubic-inch engine).
Studebaker had first used Paxton superchargers on the 1957 and '58 Studebaker and Packard Hawks. Subsequently, they bought the company. With the assistance of car racing legend Andy Granatelli, Studebaker developed an R-3 engine for the Avanti. The first was a 289 was bored initially to 299. Later versions were 304.5 cubic inches (just under the class-C five-liter limit). The R-3 employed special cylinder heads with much larger intake ports and larger valves, an aluminum intake manifold with correspondingly larger ports, long-branch lower restriction exhaust manifolds, a higher-lift, longer-duration camshaft, and a Paxton supercharger blowing through a Carter AFB four-barrel carburetor mounted in a pressurized aluminum box. The R-3 was rated at 335 horsepower, but reportedly produced 400 at the flywheel!
During the summer and fall of 1962, Granatelli took several Studebakers to the Bonneville Salt Flats, including an R-3 Avanti in which he reached a record speed of 170.78 mph. By the time he was done, Granatelli had set or broken 34 U.S. land speed records in the Avanti, allowing Studebaker to proudly proclaim it the "World's Fastest Production Car". In addition to being fast, the Avanti led the domestic auto industry in the use of front caliper disc brakes (Dunlop discs produced under license by the Bendix Corporation).
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my old boss used to own one...weird looking car IMO
Yep, they are different....but its cool to see a little car with a Chevy v8 in it...
ummm correct me if im wrong, but that yellow one looks more like a kit car than an actual one..
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
KevinP (Stabby McShankyou) wrote:not funny... i just can't find that funny... not with 2 copies of the Candyland board game on your shelf.
JLAudioCavalier(1bad02cav) wrote:ummm correct me if im wrong, but that yellow one looks more like a kit car than an actual one..
Yes and no. Avanti's are one of those cars that never die, they just get reborn. That yellow one is an offical product, but its on a 3rd gen fbody chassis.
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there was a dealer by me that had a bunch of the new Avantis with a 400 hp LS1... there was quite a few they had but they are gone now.
that yellow one looks pretty sweet...and i thought it looked like an Fbody! but the blue one is U-G-L-Y!
The blue one is an original avanti, sexy car.
I saw the yellow one at a show a few weeks ago, its a f-body with an avanti front and rear. its really gross in person.
