Nice Avanti, but pity the bidders with a dial up connection.
What's with the cheesy California "Replacement Identification Number"?
Jeff DeWitt
John Poulos wrote:
May be a rebuilt total loss at one time or another. My 63 Avanti does NOT have that! only the original on the frame rail.
Jim Turner
One of the pictures shows the original SN plate (although oddly it's obscured), but I was wondering if this was some weird California thing, perhaps they don't like Studebakers SN plates.
Jeff DeWitt
Jim Turner wrote:
So if someone in a more reasonable state were to buy that car they could remove that goofy California SN plate and just use the real one?
(and send the CA one to the CADMV, postage due).
Jeff DeWitt
John Poulos wrote:
California did some strange things with Avanti serial numbers. There was something on (I think) the Avanti Group about the Avanti serial not having enough digits so they assigned a letter suffix. I have owned two that had an "A" after the number. In this case the replacement tag still shows the original number. Maybe they didn't know it was on the frame and placed one in the usual place from the title info. Paul Johnson
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