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Must express a lot of gratitude for the restoratioin of this beautiful motorcycle. When I was a teen I was fortunate enough to be able to ride a friend's Triumph Tiger 500 - I remember it being purple and the sound as well as aroma are engrained in my brain (now 70 yrs old). Very recently after having a succession of very nice mc's I now own a lightly modified 2014 Triumph Bonneville SE air cooled 865 cc. It is mostly white with a touch of purple on the front lower aspect of the gas tank. I am having a great time - as Rob states - lightly riding it around the city I live in. Again, thx for this great video. JV.

Very cool! Did you learn any new skills from it? How long is the session?

Rob What a beautiful job you did! Hand layed pinstripes are a lost art! Beautiful bike it must be wonderful riding around and through the desert with. Denny another awesome video! I mean it the music editing and camera work!

Sweet restoration of a rare machine. That 750 twin must make for a heck of a riding experience. Well done on the video. Thanks.

Good thing those cars are grandfathered into the way the laws used to be

Nice video with cameras and drones. I learned the origin of the name. My 1st car was a 1968 tbird with a 429.😊

Great video, and seeing the car really took me back. I learned to drive on my parents 69 TBird . It was green and then later silver with a vinyl top. 4 doors, It was built like a tank and was powerful too. My dad had a hitch welded to pull a horse trailer. Back then it was just a car and was sold when my dad wanted a fresh new Lincoln Town car

I'd love to know what who sang the brilliant song at the end----"We Only Have Another Day Tonight" (?). By I just your style of the videos!

Hard to believe it came to the US 20 years ago. Timeless design. Elisa got the last Elise off the assembly line.

i had one of these, an aquamarine blue Corsa convertible with a black top and the four-carb 140 engine. Supposedly it was a Yenko Chevrolet special, ordered and sold by the large Chevrolet dealer in Chicago by that name. I got it maybe in 1971 and sold it in late '73 or so. I put higher-performance shocks and tires on it and did a little gymkhana-ing with it. It cornered very well, flat and fairly-well controlled. The carbs were constantly in need of synchronization but I learned to do it quickly. On the other hand, the acceleration was crisp and instantaneous, unlike the turbos. It had a power convertible top! Unheard of to us Brit sports car owners- my Corsa replaced an MGB and was in turn replaced by a new Triumph Spitfire Mk IV. That car did a fine job for me but even then it was beginning to rust. It had been cruelly "undercoated" as a rustrproofing scheme.

An auto manufacturer way ahead of it's time ! I love Studebakers !!

Great video. Stunning cars and gorgeous homes! The music! Any chance you can document the song list? It's exquisite!

Beautiful car, cute fellow!

you look like a fruit cup

Nice music you are plaing in the clip. Who is playing? 🥰

Sem dúvida nenhuma que o carro com mais carácter, é o mercedes sem qualquer dúvida, o tesla, não é um carro, é um electrodoméstico!!

I love your channel so badly! Everything I love comes together here. Mid-century modern architecture. American culture (I love Palm Springs very much) Classic cars and jazz music! This is one of my favorite channels and on instragram as well!

When is the 2024 show? I need to sell my 67 coupe, so far only one guy wants it...for free.

I had the same car. It looks white but the title said Lavender. under the right light u could see the light lavender. Power 4 ways seats, power antenna, and power windows. I was living in high cotton.

I am 73 but when I see an Avanti, I'm 18 again.

Nice! Cool presentation, unique car video

Nürburgring sticker on the side... at a Elise in California - nice.

good job

A fabulous tour….my dream area.

I'M A HUGE 72 MARK IV LINCOLN FAN, HOWEVER, WHY THE HELL OF ALL COLORS DID YOU HAVE TO PICK A PISS YELLOW MARK IV OF ALL WTF...

Your videos are always so well done. They are a joy to watch. Always excited when you release a new one. Thank you!

I have to disagree the airplane influence was from Loewy's involvement with Air Force One. Sherwood Egbert, president of Studebaker and the one who commissioned the project, was a pilot. He is the one who pushed for the aircraft look including being able to switch gauge lighting between white (daytime) and red (nighttime). In fact, he would fly his own plane to Palm Springs to visit the project and make some suggestions. Yes, he "helped.". Egbert had various design input such as reducing the original rake of the windshield, probably to help make sure he would fit in the car, he was pretty tall at I think 6' 4" or so. He seemed to be about a foot taller than Raymond Loewy in photos.

True, bodies were made in the same factory as the Corvette bodies, but not for long. (It was Molded Fiberglas in Ashtabula, OH.) There were too many quality problems and Studebaker took making the bodies in house. Being inexperienced with working with Fiberglas, Studebaker was able to then create their own problems. They had a lot of production problems that delayed shipments to the point that quite a few people cancelled their orders.

Just some nitpicks. The crew was not from Detroit, but from South Bend, Indiana. Well, two of them. While Bob Andrews and John Ebstein were working for Studebaker at the time, Tom Kellogg was not. Kellogg was hired at a very young age by Loewy specifically to work on this project. Kellogg had graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Loewy seemed very good at keeping track of talent. Kellogg recounted he received a phone call and this fellow with a French accent says he is Raymond Loewy asking, "Would you be interested in designing a new sports car?" Kellogg thought somebody was kidding him at first. Incidentally, Kellogg went on to have a fine career in industrial design including work for quite a few major car manufacturers. He also became a professor at Art Center College of Design. Kellogg would say how important the Avanti project was to him and characterized the design as "cosmic." Kellogg died two weeks after crashing his Mercedes-Benz into a center divider. The family wanted some Avantis at his memorial and I was one who provided one. I'm not sure Kellogg was even on the Studebaker payroll, he might have been hired as part of Loewy's organization. Kellogg also designed a later Avanti using many of the original styling cues and it was produced in limited numbers from 2000 to 2007.

There was actually a home, not the home, of Raymond Loewy in Palm Springs. He also had an apartment in New York where he likely spent the majority of his time. He also had a home in Monaco, and I think also a rural home in France. Not sure the timing on those, though.

For those who might not know, the Avanti was created to be a "halo" car to bring excitement back to the Studebaker brand and get people to the dealerships. And it most certainly did. So, it really DID do its job. The idea was then to sell most people Larks and Hawks and such because, after all, the Avanti sold for about the same price as a Cadillac. So, they never expected to sell many Avantis. However, most buyers fully expected Studebaker was on the way out and balked at buying a car where dealerships and support were about to disappear. So, they looked, but did not buy.

That was a VERY nicely done video. I have a white 1964 and my license plate says, "A 64 WHAT" because so many people nowadays have never seen one. I love your pointer. I just HAVE to find one of those.

The modified car run at Bonneville he mentioned had an "R3" engine where the 289 was bored out to 299 cid, had more boost, different intake manifold, cam, pistons, and such. They kept it at 299 cid to be in a certain class. Production R3 Avantis (there were only 9) were bored out for 304.5 cid. There was also one factory special R5 with dual superchargers that Andy Granatelli drove himself for a 2-way run of 196 mph at Bonneville. A paper on that engine Studebaker submitted to the Society of Automative Engineers stated 638 hp on the dyno. There was also the more obscure R4, which was offered as an option like the R2 or R3. But no Avanti was ordered with one, but one Lark sold with it. It was like the R3, but instead of being supercharged, had twin 4 bbl carburetors.

No 1963 production year Studebaker Avanti had square headlight bezels. I suspect your car is prior to SN R4892, perhaps quite a bit prior. But sometimes funny things happened with car registration dates after cars left the factory. And sometimes, I suspect, a car languished at the factory for some reason before becoming "production." Your car otherwise has many indications of being a 1963 such as the painted dash panel instead of the later wood grain look Tenite panels. It has the earlier heater/vent controls where one lever set is a split tee instead of the later with five separate levers with chrome balls on the top. It does NOT have the vent on the cowl just below the windshield on the top of the gunsight. This was added not for the cabin, but for air to cool the tunnel for automatic transmission cars as they got so hot people couldn't comfortably touch the metal shift lever. (Do you have that problem?) That was supposedly only for auto transmission cars, but some manual transmission cars left the factory with it anyway. But the square bezels don't make sense and I wonder if this was due to a repair at one time using a front clip from a later Avanti.

Studebaker produced 4,643 Avantis. Don't know where the 5800 production number stated came from. 3,834 were 1963 model year and 809 were 1964 model year. There were a few prototypes not sold and normally not considered "production" so sometimes you see "4,647" claimed. But production cars were 4,643. SN R1001 to R5643. R5643 was the last made and had an R3 engine. Perhaps that 5,800 was a number from a time including later Avantis produced by Avanti Motor Corporation after Studebaker ended production. Also, the Studebaker parts listed the changeover from round to square headlight bezels at SN 4892. This would mean that only the last 742 of the 809 "64" models had the square bezels. And a number of "63" models had them. So that is not a defining model year feature. There really is no defining model year changeover feature(s) for the Avanti like other cars. They just made running changes and introduced them when available. Also, you could order your car with round bezels even after square was in production. Years later, some 64 model year serial numbers after the square bezel changeover otherwise have been seen with round bezels and it is suspected this may be from a repair using a round bezel front. Nice video. I have white R5586, one of the last hundred made, which has all the running changes they ever made.

Unbelievable great car. My Dad had 3 of them. As a kid I had to sit in the back.

Beautiful car! Unfortunately, I drive a lot also. If I could only drive for pleasure; I would have one of these.

Who is the music artist during the Studebaker Avanti segment? 4:40 - 6:30? absolutely intoxicating!

It’s found an owner who truly values and appreciates its character and history. ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

These were ultra luxury vehicles here. Pity that I only have the metal models of these Mercedes from my childhood in the 60’s. Beautiful setting and a rust-free one unlike Northern Europe. 👍🏻🇺🇸✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

How can 79,8 inches be converted into 1,8 meters!?

spectacular. The last truly exceptional generation where it truly was a step above. Also, I cannot imagine a metal house baking in the PS sun all day long!

Great video thank you

Lovely Palm Springs our Summer Vacation destination for 20 years from London. New developments have changed Downtown thank goodness for the mid century modern architecture of the old hotels and suburban homes, My favourite car is the convertible version but that coupe would do given the sun.

the time, when designers were designers!

It's nice to see you back on KZbin. Gorgeous car, killer color! Thanks, Denny. 😎

Another great video; I’ve missed them! The combination of car and architectural history is a home run. This Mercedes model is one of my favorites; thank you for taking us along on the ride.

The Tesla, like its founder, has no character.

Perforated.