Re: [DMCForum] Re: Avanti (Walt Coe)

[Jon Heese <heese@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:31, DMCVIN6683 wrote:
> Got some pictures or a web link to see this car?
> 
> Mark V
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> On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 11:28  AM, Joe OBrien wrote:
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> > Have you seen the new "Camaro" Avanti's? What a POS for the money to
> > have the supposed Avanti prestigue. It is 100% a 2002 F body camaro
> > drivetrain, frame, suspension, & interior, even down to the steering
> > wheel & radio, and knobs & buttons. Avanti replaced nothing except
> > some cheesy Avanti badges where the Chevy logos were. And now they
> > expect to pull $60-$70,000 for them? Only hint of Avanti is the
> > round headlights up front. That just screams rip-off.
> >
> >
> > Joe O'Brien
> >
> > 2524 & 16634
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> > --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> "Avanti" was a model produced by Studebaker, just as "Mustang" is a
> >> model from Ford.
> >>
> >> The company ceased automobile production only. It did not cease
> >> itself. It retained all rights to the Avanti design and name.
> >>
> >> In the 1970's some entrepeneur in Canada got the bright idea to
> > start
> >> building "new" Avanti's (what was it about the 1970's and
> >> entrepreneural auto makers?). He licensed the name and the
> > fiberglass
> >> body only. Drivetrain was not Studebaker -- I've always heard
> > Chevy.
> >> Don't know derivation of the frame and suspension.
> >>
> >> In the 1980's the Studebaker company itself was sold. There's some
> >> controversy about the sale. I think the first purchaser was forced
> > by
> >> the courts to sell to another, or some such. Owners of "real"
> >> Studebakers consider 1966 the end of the company and do not cotton
> > to
> >> the fellow in Canada or the current company at all.
> >>
> >> Bill Robertson
> >> #5939
> >>
> >>> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> >>> My family used to have a Studebaker.  We sold it to a
> >>> collector who supposedly restored it.  If I can find
> >>> who/where, I still have the original brochures & sales
> >>> receipt which I would like to give to the current owner.
> >>>
> >>> I heard that Avanti had bought out Studebaker.  And Bill,
> >>> according to that link you posted, they have the Avanti name
> >>> on it too.  Back in the early 1970's, my father got our
> >>> family on a tour of the Avanti factory.  I think this was in
> >>> Tennessee or not too far from there.  My dad tried to talk
> >>> them into making him a special direct factory-to-customer
> >>> sale.  They refused to bypass their dealer network, and my
> >>> mom was thoroughly embarrassed that my dad wouldn't accept
> >>> that.  I did get a cool black T-shirt.  I wore it to school,
> >>> and my friends complained that it would look better if it
> >>> didn't have that nasty Avanti logo on it. ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Walt
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