[DMCForum] Re: Avanti (Walt Coe)

["John Hicks" <johnzd81@xxxxxxxxx>]

Corvette Frame and suspension, engine too, but they offered other 
options.  Girlfriend's dad had one with a 440 Mopar hemi, my old 
Doctor had one with an LT1 engine.  Nice cars, but still not a 
DeLorean.....

--- 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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