I just pulled the Avanti out of the garage yesterday. Like most of the threads state on here a lot of times show cars don't have perfect paint. It's hard to keep on the paint with all the little mechanical tinkering that can be done.
A little History on the Avanti
-The Avanti was designed by Raymond Lowey- Famous industrial designer who designed the Coke Bottle, Shell Gasoline logo, Post office Logo and Lucky Strike Cigarette package, Air Force 1, Zippo Lighter to name a few
-It was the First Mass produced 4 seat fiberglass car
-63 and 64 were made by Studebaker, but specialty builders kept it in production into the 80's with a few reincarnations in the 90's and early 2000's
-James Bond Author Ian Fleming Drove a Black 1963 Avanti
- In the 60's Avanti's broke 29 Bonneville Land Speed Records
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