Ok, so you wanted some picks. The car started off being red and black, I was in the process of painting her royal blue when she was damaged. And, I made seat covers from old blue jeans. Previously, I needed a new front bumper, which took me almost two years to find. After that last hit that ruined my reverse, the car was too damaged for me to deal with. :-(
No more. They were made in Canada for a while. The Studebaker Avanti is a '60s classic. My mother told me I came home from the hospital when I was born, in 1950, in a Studebaker.
I was hit in the rear by a tourist trying to change lanes at a stop light. Ended up sandwiched between him and the car in front of me. Tried to back off the car in front of me, but ended up stuck and had to be pushed into the Starbucks parking lot as I couldn't get the car to reverse. That was quite the spectacle!
Strictly nostalgia. They're not terribly expensive used, but they're also not made in the U.S. anymore, parts are difficult to find if the car needs repairs. They were really popular when I was in high school, along with the Volkswagen "Beetle"---and they did look something like the "bathtub" Porsche.
