1970 Studebaker Avanti - 2 Owner Car! For Sale

View our eBay StoreSign up for our Email Newsletter 1970 Studebaker Avanti offered with a reserve This early Avanti II has a known history from new having had only 2 owners to this point. The car is in excellent condition throughout and has been stored indoors its entire life. The car has been regularly maintained and treated well by collector owners who use it sparingly on nice sunny days only. The car runs and drives without fault, and can be driven cross country without hesitation. Finished in a nice color combination,with full options including Air, this classic Avanti will be at home on the show field or cruising in style. We have many more photographs of this car, please click on any image to be taken to our full-size image list! The Studebaker Avanti was a sports coupe built by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, USA between June 1962 and December 1963. Designed by a team of stylists employed by industrial designer Raymond Loewy, the Avanti was a radical body design based on the Studebaker Lark Daytona chassis. After the closure of Studebaker's factory in December 1964, The Avanti model name, tooling and plant space were sold off to two South Bend Studebaker dealers. They revived a version of the car in 1965 under the brand name "Avanti II" but neither it nor subsequent copies assembled by a succession of entrepreneurs has any valid identification with the Studebaker name. Avanti is Italian for "forward" or "advance." While Jaguar began offering production-car disc brakes in 1957 on the XK150, the Avanti was the first American mass-produced car to feature standard disc brakes. The Avanti's emphasis on safety, with seatbelts available as an option, safety door latches and roll-over protection bar, was also very advanced. The Avanti's classic design originated in an intense five-week session in a rented house in Palm Springs, California near the home of lead designer Raymond Loewy with the team of Bob Andrews, Tom Kellogg, and John Ebstein. The waist had a coke bottle shape, which held up a thin-section roof with a bubble-back rear window and an integral rollbar. Loewy achieved the look of a rear-drive sports car by replacing the function of a conventional grille with a bottom breathing air intake placed under the front bumper, a styling feature that reached the family sedan in the 1980s with the Ford Taurus The driver looked over an asymmetrical hump in the hood. The cockpit had crash padding, and seating was in four bucket seats. It would be put into production with few changes from the original small-scale model. The unique and classic aesthetics of the car garnered a following, and it consequently lived on in production as a hand-built, custom-order model decades after Studebaker closed its doors. Our Ebay Policies. Significant Cars is one of the largest Collector Car Brokers and Dealers in the Country. Since 2003 we have worked hard to "change the way collector cars find new homes" by providing unparralleled web presentation of the cars we are representing. Most of our cars have over 30 photographs, and these can be viewed by visiting our website (our eBay handle dot com), or by clicking on any of the photographs in the black background area of our EBay listings. We welcome your call with any questions about any of our listings at anytime at 800-837-9902 and certainly encourage your personal inspection of any of the cars we are selling-just call us and we will be happy to set up an appointment for your to see and test drive the car. We realize that EBay is a difficult venue to properly evaluate an item as complex as an automobile. You can feel secure bidding with confidence on any of our cars since we guarantee your satisfaction! Should you win the auction and come to see the car and decide you do not want it for any reason, no negative feedback will result, any deposit you may have paid will be cheerfully refunded. Description images and copy © 2010 Significant Cars, Inc. Pierce-Arrow Pierce Arrow Pirce Arrow Classic Car Full Classic Marmon Cadilac Cadillac Porsche Porsh Porsch 911 Carerra Lincoln Lincon Packard Packrd Chevy Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Sting Ray Plymouth Plymoth Mustang Ford Mustng Frd Boss 351 Coupe Frazer Frasier Fraser Manhattan Kaiser Daimler Jaguar Collector Significant Cars SignificantCars.com Signfiicant Significant Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.