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Saw this International at a Studebaker show the other day.
Bonus pics of a Stude and a Blazer.
u/Physical_Touch_Me — 2 days ago
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Most people think the fastest production car in 1963 was a ferrari or Fuel Injected Corvette, but it wasn't. It was this: the Supercharged Studebaker Avanti!
I went to a small town yesterday to see this machine and others at a Studebaker show. Very very cool! This thing did 170 MPH in 1963, with a backseat! Also made of fiberglass like the Vette, they are a masterpiece designed by Raymond Loewy. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to save the company, and Studebaker closed production a few years later in '66. However, the rights to the Avanti nameplate and design lived on all the way into the 2000s as the Avanti II.
u/Physical_Touch_Me — 4 days ago