By the late 1950s the company was in dire straits ... That's how the now-iconic Studebaker Avanti was born. A fiberglass-bodied V8-powered ground-pounding street machine that looked exactly ...

Even during the immediate postwar years, Studebaker ... Avanti now under the care of Paul and Ann Rose, of Pennsylvania. Thiers is an R-1 equipped edition that was ordered in December, built in ...

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 ...