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To: Bender2

My dream car.


23 posted on 11/07/2011 12:58:04 PM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: william clark; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie
In Fall of 1965 my Dad said for me to look for a used car for my freshman year in college. I found a former executive with Studebaker who had three for sale:

A '63 Maroon Avanti with a automoatic...

another maroon '63 Avanti with 4-speed and real wire wheels...

and a red/white top convertible prototype Lark that was to go head to head with GTO in '64... tricked out with the full Avanti drive train, 4-speed and huge tires.

Either Avanti was 3 grand and the Lark/GTO stype was $1,400 but when my I got my Dad over to look at them, he said the Avantis were too high priced and if he got me the Lark, I'd kill myself speeding and drag racing.

I didn't think so at the time, but now looking back with 46 years of hindsight, I have to admit... my old Pappy was correct!

I don't have photos of those three, but using Google I found the above representations of what I remember.

BTW my Dad finally got me a car... a brand new 1966 Lemans with a Overhead cam 6 that I beat many 287s in drag races with, of course, unknown to my Old Pappy, I think--

If red Xs above go to http://www.raymondloewy.org/images/gallery/full/auto_62avanti.jpg, http://www.sdckeystoneregion.com/images/member_cars/63%20Avanti%20R2%20L_F%20JPG.png or http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VnpZkc3GzxI/SYl7j58LgrI/AAAAAAAAC6I/SduozIcKAF4/s400/1963%2BStudebaker%2BLark%2Bconvertible.jpg

24 posted on 11/07/2011 4:21:17 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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