Conventional Lark suspension parts were used ... When he bought the Studebaker, painted Avanti Gold, the original tires and wheels were still with it, but not installed. “The car was in driving ...

That's how the now-iconic Studebaker Avanti was born. A fiberglass-bodied V8-powered ground-pounding street machine that looked exactly as futuristic as it should. Once the design had been ...

Studebaker unveiled the Avanti at the 1962 New York Auto Show, and the supercharged version of that car later set more than two dozen speed records, including the one for fastest production car in ...