Avanti Automotive Corporation

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Avanti Motor Corporation
The New Avanti Motor Corporation
Avanti Automotive Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1965
resolution 1991
Seat Youngstown , Ohio , USA
management John Cafaro
Branch Automobiles

Building from 1982
Avanti II Coupé from 1967
Avanti Cabriolet from 1989
Avanti sedan from 1991

Avanti Automotive Corporation , previously Avanti Motor Corporation and The New Avanti Motor Corporation , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Nathan Altman and Leo Newman were Studebaker Corporation dealers . After they stopped producing the Studebaker Avanti , they founded the Avanti Motor Corporation in South Bend , Indiana in 1965 . They continued the production by hand. The brand name was Avanti . Stephen Blake took over the company in October 1982. In April 1986, Michael Kelly bought the company, renamed it The New Avanti Motor Corporation , and in 1987 relocated to Youngstown , Ohio . In 1988, John Cafaro took over the company and renamed it Avanti Automotive Corporation . Production ended in 1991.

Starting in 1999, another Avanti Motor Corporation was marketing vehicles as Avanti .

vehicles

The first Avanti II model , renamed Avanti in 1983 without the addition of digits, was the successor to the Studebaker Avanti. The sports car was initially only available as a coupé . In 1985 a convertible and a little later a coupé with an extended wheelbase added to the range. Various V8 engines of Chevrolet driven to the vehicles. In 1990 there was also a four-door sedan .

The coupe cost 8,145 US dollars in 1972; little compared to an Excalibur Series II for $ 13,500.

Production numbers

45 vehicles were built in the first year and 100 in 1968. During the 1970s the number was between 100 and 125 annually. The peak was reached in 1984 with 287 vehicles. After that 190 coupés, 58 coupés with long wheelbase, 228 convertibles and 97 sedans were built.

literature

Web links

Commons : Avanti Automotive Corporation  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Avanti; Avanti II.
  2. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 120 (English).
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)