Engines had to change of course. Studebaker had itself shifted to Chevrolet motors in the mid-1960s, and so the Avanti II gained a 300-hp version of the 327 it had once done battle against in the ...

Demand comes from out of state and overseas for the sleek product that was once supposed to save Studebaker. People still want Avanti cars and parts, and Dan Booth has both at his Nostalgic Motor ...

Avanti, freely translated from Italian, means forward!-which is just where Studebaker's president, Sherwood Egbert, hopes to lead his company with an exciting new '63 automobile. From "doodle-to ...

After an 18-month hiatus to get organized, Altman and Newman started making their own refined version of Studebaker's stillborn beauty. That was in 1966. Fledgling Avanti Motors created only two ...

McCullough Motors was a chainsaw manufacturer ... sketch out the original Star Trek shuttle.) Underneath, the Avanti was basically Studebaker's older Lark model, but with a stylish fiberglass ...

Studebaker unveiled the Avanti at the 1962 New York Auto Show ... which was a division of chainsaw manufacturer McCullough ...

That's how the now-iconic Studebaker Avanti was born ... purchased a few General Motors engines to finish out production until dealer contracts were fulfilled. By May of the following year ...

Today's Nice Price or No Dice Avanti is named after a kingdom of ... failed in the mission to save its original parent, Studebaker Motors. The same cannot be said, though, about the model's ...