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Aug 22, 2010 | 12:48 AM

CDNROCKIES

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Something special!

I was on vacation at Predator Ridge a couple of weeks ago and this car was parked two stalls over from me. At the time, I was unsure of what it actually was, besides an Avanti.

After looking it up, I can tell you it is a '62 or '63 Studebaker Avanti. It was in incredible shape and definitely something special.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Avanti

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Aug 22, 2010 | 01:57 AM

Jetfire

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were you playing golf at predator ridge? i have a few friends going up for a trip at the predator ridge golf course.

Aug 22, 2010 | 11:59 AM

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One of my college instructors was an Avanti driver/collector. He had 3 of them and loved them. One was modded but I forget what he'd done to it. Pretty rare these days I haven't seen his since college and that was very long ago.

Aug 22, 2010 | 12:00 PM

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Sweet. I had a huge crush on these when I was younger. Just lovely.

Aug 22, 2010 | 06:01 PM

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Same here, this was one of my favorite cars as a kid, still love it. Cool find C.

Aug 22, 2010 | 06:47 PM

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Do you think it was an original rather than the later ones that were made by the independent Avanti Motors rather than Studebaker?

Aug 22, 2010 | 06:56 PM

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That's in nice shape! Rare.

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Aug 22, 2010 | 07:14 PM

CDNROCKIES

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Quote:

Originally Posted by caddyowner

Do you think it was an original rather than the later ones that were made by the independent Avanti Motors rather than Studebaker?

I'm not sure?

I don't know enough about these cars to really know. I was simply going off the info/images I could find on the Internet. It was in spectacular condition and someone was clearly taking extra good care of it.

Edit:

After doing some more research, the car that was produced afterwards by Avanti starting in '65 was called the Avanti II and was badged as such.

So from the pics I took, I do believe that it's an original Studebaker.