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 ...

Just 3,834 were built in 1963, and another 809 in 1964, before Studebaker ceased production at its South Bend, Indiana, facility in December 1963. Depicted on these pages is a first-year Avanti ...

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 ...