Studebakers/Avantis

[LarryMow]

I know this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic but....has anyone seen the new Avantis or the Studebaker SUVs? Damn these things are ugly...and pricey too...90,000 plus for a V8 Avanti. They can keep it. Check it out at the link www.avantimotors.com

[MarkFL]

Avanti is an fbody, so it's not off topic at all!

[Dave-S]

Avanti is an fbody, so it's not off topic at all!

I wonder if that's still the case. I know they used fbodies up until production stopped with the 2002 models, but I don't know where the cars would come from for the current models. Plus if you look at the specs, the engines they list don't look like they come from GM.

It looks like they are using a Hummer to create a Studebaker XUV though

[Crazy Canuk]

It looks like they are using a Hummer to create a Studebaker XUV though

I was going to say the same thing, I actuly don't mind the look, the only thing I realy don't like is the tail lights they dont seem to fit the whole style of the car.

The car on the other hand...maybe a math freak obsessed with geometric shapes would love the car but its not for me

[Steel2686]

The Avanti looks like a Corvair.

[MarkFL]

I wonder if that's still the case. I know they used fbodies up until production stopped with the 2002 models, but I don't know where the cars would come from for the current models...

I wondered about that too. Maybe their volume is so low they still haven't ran out of them.

...maybe a math freak obsessed with geometric shapes would love the car but its not for me

this math freak doesn't care for it.

[fastTa]

The Avanti cars never had and never will have any affiliation whatsoever with General Motors (GM). Most of the original Studebaker Avantis were built using Studebaker frames and chassis parts and the R series 289" Studebaker power plants.

Then later in the 60's, the Avanti II was still using Studebaker chassis', but used a small block Chevy 327 powerplant and drivetrain. Most of the late 70's and 80's AMC (Avanti Motors Corporation) cars were built using the Caprice, El Camino, and Monte Carlo (A, B, and G body's.)

In 1991, Avanti even made some of their own chassis' commonly referred to as the CAT chassis'. Callaway Advanced Technologies developed Avanti's chassis for the next few years, but they were not successful at all.

The "Kellogg" cars, namely the Avanti AVX which was built using F-body chassis', were built from 2001-2003 in very limited production.

Avanti cars, since 2004, are now using Ford Mustang chassis' and Ford Mustang powerplants and drivtrains.

All Avanti has ever done is sporadically purchase bulk vehicles from dealerships, then they strip the cars down and re-body them with Avanti designed bodies. The Avanti Motor Corporation has struggled since day one in 1964. They have always had major QC issues, problematic sales due to the hideous looks, and poor marketing.

That new Studebaker XUV and XUT are built using the Ford F-250 chassis' and Ford powerplants and drivetrains. GM sued Avanti a few years back because they felt like Avanti had copied the Hummer too closely. I'm not sure what came about from that Supreme Court ruling.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

When I was in high school, I went out with a girl whose dad was a doctor and lived in a big house on a hill - he had an Avanti and told us we could drive it on our date. It had a TV camera for a rear view mirror and the house had a turntable in front of the garage to turn the car around after you backed it out. The girl had big boobs. It all only lasted for one date though

[LarryMow]

When I was in high school, I went out with a girl whose dad was a doctor and lived in a big house on a hill - he had an Avanti and told us we could drive it on our date. It had a TV camera for a rear view mirror and the house had a turntable in front of the garage to turn the car around after you backed it out. The girl had big boobs. It all only lasted for one date though

The date? The car? The girl? or the boobs?

[fastTa]

When I was in high school, I went out with a girl whose dad was a doctor and lived in a big house on a hill - he had an Avanti and told us we could drive it on our date. It had a TV camera for a rear view mirror and the house had a turntable in front of the garage to turn the car around after you backed it out. The girl had big boobs. It all only lasted for one date though

My senior year in high school, I took this rich chick out for our homecoming prom. I was in a cast due to FUBAR'ing my left knee in a football game, so I couldn't drive because my Jeep Wrangler was stadard. We get to the girl's rent's house and her Dad hands me these keys, and just says take care of my girls. I thought maybe he had handed me the keys to a Buick or a Cadillac.....shit it was a 1995 ZR1....the last of the breed. She had medium sized boobs..... and I played doctor on them.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

My senior year in high school, I took this rich chick out for our homecoming prom. I was in a cast due to FUBAR'ing my left knee in a football game, so I couldn't drive because my Jeep Wrangler was stadard. We get to the girl's rent's house and her Dad hands me these keys, and just says take care of my girls. I thought maybe he had handed me the keys to a Buick or a Cadillac.....shit it was a 1995 ZR1....the last of the breed. She had medium sized boobs..... and I played doctor on them.

How on earth did you drive a ZR1 Vette with your left leg in a cast?

And which one of your friends slow danced with your girl all night?

[fastTa]

How on earth did you drive a ZR1 Vette with your left leg in a cast?

And which one of your friends slow danced with your girl all night?

With my right foot on the loud pedal. It was an auto...I was told by him it was fairy rare. Only thing, it was that weird purple color, and I remember it was weird looking through that blue glass top.

She danced with the school mascot all night, then I saw the principal cut in for a while!