The Avanti was related to the Studebaker Lark but had a fiberglass body designed by a team operating under Raymond Loewy. It looked fantastic, and it performed superbly, especially if customers specified the supercharger option for the 4.7-liter V8 engine. The Avanti was dropped when passenger-car production at the South Bend, Indiana, factory it was built in came to an end.

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