Just 3,834 were built in 1963, and another 809 in 1964, before Studebaker ceased production at its South Bend, Indiana, facility in December 1963. Depicted on these pages is a first-year Avanti ...

My wife has fond memories of riding around small town Tekamah, Nebraska, in a Studebaker Hawk with her Uncle Jack, Aunt Donna ...

That's how the now-iconic Studebaker Avanti was born. A fiberglass-bodied V8-powered ground-pounding street machine that looked exactly as futuristic as it should. Once the design had been ...