Re: Packard Motor Company returns...sorta...

Brent P wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Nagel wrote:
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> > The original Studebaker Avanti was not particularly refined either, 
> > luxury pretensions notwithstanding.  That doesn't mean that they aren't 
> > a kick in the ass to drive though or that I don't want one badly...
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> I aways saw the avanti as step on the road to pony cars like the 
> mustang, f-bodies, etc.... Actually the car would have fit right into an 
> early 1980s product line up. 

The problem with that statement is that is probably how a lot of other 
people viewed the Avanti as well...  when it was introduced in 1963 it 
has a sticker of somewhere around $4K - I'm sure you can imagine what 
would have happened to Avanti sales after the Mustang was introduced 
(for much less...) had Studebaker kept the doors open that long. 
Granted, it had a larger engine than the 'stang, the kickass fiberglas 
body, and an optional supercharger, but when you could get a Mustang 
'vert with a V-8 and 4-speed for less than a non-supercharged Avanti, 
the numbers didn't add up.

nate


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