Just got back from the "Cruizin to Grove" Studebaker club function. It was put on by the Ozark trails and planned by Carl and Betty Purdy. Great time was had by all. A better report with picture links will follow. But in between one of the events, I had got ahold of the person who owned the Avanti and asked if some Studebaker people could come out and look at it. So we loaded up the Montero and went out Holiday Shores to see this mysterious "Black Beauty". I and Jim Caldwell, Wilber Kaylor and a very talented guy who owns a 56 flight hawk with a 6 cylinder with dual carbs and tail pipes, sorry I just can't remember his name. Anyway with directions that I had written down very badly,(I didn't expect them to be so complicated). We only got lost twice in finding the house. We all examined the beast, and enjoyed talking with the owner,about Avanti's in general. So here is what we found.
That's our take on it, hope it helps. Malcom