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echo: oldcars
to: JOHN DEMOTT
from: ELVIS HARGROVE
date: 1996-06-28 22:58:00
subject: Avanti

-> Great...  perhaps the Avanti will never die. What engine are they
-> putting in them now?
WEll, got a REAL good look at the Avanti at the restoration place today.
 Didn't have time to look it over closely but I saw that I was wrong
about the "STUDEBAKER" on the trunk lid.  It definitely IS script offset
to the right of the car.  Don't know how I missed that so bad before.
Paid particular attention to the engine compatment too, and it is
definitely a Studebaker engine.  Looked like a 289, and had chrome valve
covers like the old Caddie engine.  The valley cover is also chrome.
For some weird reason the fan was painted bright ORANGE which I never
saw on a studbuster before.  (They were replacing all the belts and
checking pulley alignment.  No supercharger.)
MAybe I'll get a chance to look it over better if it stays around a
while.
 ^..^
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