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paulfish4570
02-22-2010, 10:13
photos rezized and replaced. see post below:
charjohncarter
02-22-2010, 10:15
'62 ?????????????? Those were really great looking. Nice photos.
paulfish4570
02-22-2010, 10:46
thanks. i don't know the model. i'd never seen one, though, with the gran tourismo marque. is that factory?
kuzano
02-22-2010, 11:15
The Studebaker Gran Turismo was introduced in 1962 and ran a couple of years. (The Avanti came out in 63). Styling was done by a fellow named Brook Stevens. Nice images.
paulfish4570
02-22-2010, 11:42
thank you much ...
remegius
02-22-2010, 13:21
The Avanti came out in 63.

My father bought an Avanti new in '63. I drove it for many years. Had a Paxton blower under the hood and went pretty well. Raymond Loewy designed the Avanti, and I wish that I still had it.

Cheers...

Rem
paulfish4570
02-22-2010, 15:17
no kidding, rem ...
OMboy
04-07-2010, 10:59
Hello, me again.

No photos here either...damn PhotoBuffet - what a waste of time they are.
paulfish4570
04-07-2010, 11:17
i had resized images. move 'em again shortly:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/fish280/pensacola%20bessa%20images/R1-6.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/fish280/pensacola%20bessa%20images/R1-5.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/fish280/pensacola%20bessa%20images/R1-4.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/fish280/pensacola%20bessa%20images/R1-3.jpg
oftheherd
04-07-2010, 11:21
I can remember in the late mid-40s when I was just a tyke, and the popular myth about Studebaker was that you could drive them in either direction, from the front or back; two sets of steering and pedals. Not by the Gran Tourismo's time of course.

I must be getting old. Is it raining or is that just drool? :D :D
remegius
04-07-2010, 12:00
I can remember in the late mid-40s when I was just a tyke, and the popular myth about Studebaker was that you could drive them in either direction, from the front or back; two sets of steering and pedals. Not by the Gran Tourismo's time of course.


They were kind of push-me-pull-you looking, weren't they. One of their earlier models was called the "Dictator". They had to abandon that name when the war came along.

Cheers...

Rem
Richard G
04-07-2010, 12:59
Beautiful - calls to mind the Buick Riviera, crossed with that iconic French coupe the Facel Vega.
Leigh Youdale
04-07-2010, 14:03
Beautiful - calls to mind the Buick Riviera, crossed with that iconic French coupe the Facel Vega.

Speaking of France made me think of these, taken in Paris last summer.
paulfish4570
04-07-2010, 14:30
wow, wow, wow. going to an indy car race this weekend, with a paddock pass. hope to get close enough ...