Interesting styling exercise but it sure looks like my neighbors Camaro
with a body kit added for an extra $50k. The interior even looks more or
less the same.
Doug Hamilton
>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:47:05 EST
>From: ZoboHerald@aol.com
>Subject: Re: The "New" AVANTI - no LBC
>
>In a message dated 11/29/2002 6:32:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, mike@gsta.net
>writes:
>
>
>
>>> I was being dragged around a mall today by my new wife when smack in the
>>> middle of it I ran into an interesting looking yellow ragtop. Upon closer
>>> inspection it turned out to be a new Avanti. Shared nothing with the
>>> original Raymond Loewy designed Studebaker milestone except the familiar
>>> grill-less front end and a rear end shape that was similar. Frame,
>>> suspension, engine etc... is all GM. Basically it's a specialty bodied
>>> Corvette with a Vortech 5.7 liter V8 and a price tag of.... are you ready
>>> for this ? .... $83,000 !!!! Un-freakin'-believable! The coupe version is
>>> $10,000 less for you frugal types ;-)
>>
>>
>
>Way cool! Check out <http://avantimotors.com/default.htm>; any web site that
>opens to Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" is ok by me. And I rather
>like the updated design -- a reasonably good job of updating those classic
>styling cues on what certainly is a much wider chassis than the original.
>
>Now about the 2004 Herald.... :-)
>
>- --Andy Mace
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