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I just bought myself a BEAUTIFUL 1977 Black and Gold Trans-Am…I only had to wait FOUR DECADES to get it…but it was WORTH IT!

You may want to polish and shine up the Black T/A a wee bit…a nice clear coat wouldn’t hurt either. 😉

Yeah I miss my D a two you know what that means don't you TA

318 make good power too!!! Theres a guy on the net making 600 on motor!!!! With a 318!!!!

Sorry... Black all the way.. Red and gold suck!!

Amazing work 💯. Beautiful car

RED

455 cubic????

I agree!!!!!!!

With everything it's not the year.. it's the rarity

My worst fear is my family selling all my collections for next to nothing just to get some quick cash

The new paints are horrible. Looks nothing like the original. We drove them back then. Looks like a plastic finish. Im jot inpressed

My older Brother bought one of these in 1978' I believe. It was pretty cool...

Miles rolled back ?

Gold all the way

...Where's the shaker ?

Oh man that's actually a hard one, especially with the Plum Crazy challenger

One of my earliest impressions from car lots was seeing Torino GT's with their two-tone fadie-in center line graphics. Not knowing makes and models just yet.

Beautiful Automobile!🙆‍♂️🙋‍♂️

Cassette deck! I would think the 71 wouldve had the 8 track or even the 4 track, i had a craig/pioneer 4+4 in 1975 it played 4 and 8 track tapes. Yeah lol😉👍

Pontiac didn't make a big block. Just sayin

I had a 86 SR5, the engine finally went on me and I sold the truck to a wrecker for $750...ugg

The front end on the 1970-73 Trans Am is one of the best looking ever.

Red.

Freakin priceless 😊

I had a gold one with 455..also had T tops

The answer is yes.

go to Dulcich while he has those cuda's still

That belongs in the museum

That 74 455 was a torque monster. Beautiful T/A a rare jem in pristine condition thanks for sharing

See I wish you people would mind your own f****** business and stop going around to these people and telling these people what these cars are worth because people like me by these cars for two or three thousand dollars and then we drive them for about a year and then we sell them for 5 to 7 Grand all of these cars that you people like climbing that are worth tens of thousands of dollars are junk they're not worth anything other than the Nostalgia value of when you were growing up as a kid that's all I'm sorry but a 1967 Mustang named Eleanor isn't worth 240,000. Just like this Firebird was Blue Book value that 2,900 brand new this car is not worth more than a couple thousand dollars that's all you can't even get 10 grand out of this car and if anybody gave you 10 grand they're stupid

Red…. There is no other choice. It looks faster than the gold, just sitting there!

Well I'll take the 72 but the 78 has its place in history also that iconic gold is just gorgeous

Red 💯

The business man's hot rod.

Red!

I know Chip is a cool guy, but that shirt is a hold choice 😂

Tables have turned and more people want older cars and don’t want new ones

Any gold car are not great sellers. That’s the stats

It was nice that they showed a little demo of flipping down a sun visor. That's all it does. It is very small and does not swing to the side. I've read that Studebaker President Sherwood Egbert provided some design input and this was one of the items. That he didn't like the big ugly floppy sun visors that were common. He wanted something more like what you would find in an aircraft. And he was a pilot and apparently that influenced other aspects of the interior where a lot of the controls, like the heater and vent controls, look aircraft inspired. As well as the very large number of gauges very untypical in an American car. And the switches above the windshield were the first time a car had any switches located there. One of the switches changes the gauge back lighting from white to red (there are two sets of bulbs in the gauge panel) which I think is also from the aircraft world with the red being better for night vision.

Mercedes did not merge with Studebaker and Packard. Studebaker was merely a distributor of Mercedes. Mercedes was definitely a distinct and separate company.

Seatbelts were only just starting to take hold and the federal mandate started January 1, 1965. Studebaker was somewhat advanced making them standard. I'm not positive, but I believe they had a "seatbelt delete" option, and it might have applied to only the rear seatbelts. While they had to build the car out of their existing parts bin (Studebaker Lark X frame for more strength due to the fiberglass body since they couldn't afford the time or money for dies for steel), a very old engine design from 1951 that was based on an even older 1949 Cadillac engine, king pin steering, and such, they did put in a number of safety aspects. There is a built-in rollbar. The dash is safety oriented. The gas tank is behind the rear seat and the spare tire is below the trunk (under a round panel making up part of the floor of the trunk) where gas tanks are usually located. So, if you get hit from the back, there is not gas tank right there. Of course, disk brakes were another "first" claimed by Studebaker on an American production car. But they were not the first. They were the first with CALIPER disk brakes (on the front, standard drums on the rear). The first American production car with disk brakes (but of a different sort of design) was, of all things, the 1949 Crosley on all four wheels and for only one year. Then in 1949 to 1954 Chrysler offered them as an expensive option, also not the "caliper" type, though. So, when Studebaker omitted the word "caliper" in their claim, they were not accurate.

The interior rear-view mirror is not in the original position which was down low just above the dashboard. At first, the mirror was on a short stalk sticking up from the dashboard. Later, they cemented the mirror to the windshield at the same location (and I believe were the first to cement it to the glass like that). I have a very stock 1964 and it is hard to see much with it mounted that low. I can see where it would be an improvement to mount it higher. The car may have originally had the stalk, but I suspect the interior was redone and a new dash pad assembly installed. Also, original production had a different exterior mirror design, and they were part way down the fender blades (like some race cars). But you couldn't reach them from inside the car to adjust them. So they changed to the design you see here. Also, the right hand mirror was an option.

Some other celebrity Avanti owners were Johnny Carson, Dick Van Dyke, Beach Boy Al Jardine (post Studebaker convertible), Sandy Kofax, Michael Landon (post Studebaker convertible), Ricky Nelson, Rod Serling, Herb Shriner, Frank Sinatra, Roger Ward (one was presented to him upon winning the 1962 Indianapolis 500 making him the first official Avanti owner), actor David Arquette (post Studebaker convertible) and Ian Fleming of James Bond novel fame. Fleming apparently planned to have Bond drive an Avanti in his next book after "Octopussy and The Living Daylights", but he ended up not writing another Bond book. Alice Cooper has had three Avantis: A white 1963, black 1963, and a 2003 convertible (the 2003 being a very restyled version of the original as part of 2000 to 2007 production on Monte Carlo platforms until they became unavailable and then on Ford Mustang platforms).

To be a bit pedantic, the "R3" that got the Bonneville records was 299 CID, not 304.5. They did that to stay in a certain class. The production R3 cars, of which there were only nine (but quite a few clones have now been made) was 304.5. The R4 engine was also 304.5 and it was normally aspirated with dual 4 BBL carburetors. However, no Avanti was ever ordered with one. One Lark was. There was also a factory "R5" engine with twin Paxton superchargers driven at Bonneville by Andy Granatelli himself to a 196 mph best two way run. In a paper Studebaker provided to the Society of Automotive Engineers they said the R5 engine was 638 hp. Some online sources say 575 hp, but the paper to the SAE is certainly the definitive source.

While the little panel on the deck to access the trunk was marketed as access to put things into and out of the trunk, it really wasn't very practical for that sort of thing if you think about it. Despite their advertising photo of a lovely model putting something into the trunk through it. It was really there as an alternate means to get to the trunk latch with a long screwdriver to get it open. Normally, you pulled on a handle at the bottom left of the rear seat and you were pulling a cable. If the cable broke, and that access panel door was NOT there, you would have to cut through the fiberglass to get the trunk open. Studebaker simply turned that necessity into another advertising feature.

I don't know where he got his production numbers from. Perhaps talking about only R2 models. There were a total of 4,643 Studebaker Avantis made. 3,834 as 1963 models and 809 as 1964 models. Contrary to a popular belief, square headlight bezels do not automatically denote a 1964 model. They came along a little after the model year date change. Studebaker didn't really have model years in the sense of other car companies with completely restyled cars. Instead, they intended to make continual "running changes." Of about 30 running changes over the production life, 8 occurred starting with serial number 4892 and that is sometimes considered, more or less, the "transition" from the 63-ish to the 64-ish model year physically. Square headlight bezels were one of those 8 changes, but they really occurred after the model year date change and early 1964 models had round bezels and they could also be special ordered even after the square bezel change. Also, some unsold 1963 models with round bezels were later sold and registered as 1964 models. There were probably six hundred and some square bezel cars.

It was also put in the 73 formula 455

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Red… the gold one is by far the ugliest trans am EVER built!!!