That's how the now-iconic Studebaker Avanti was born. A fiberglass-bodied V8-powered ground-pounding street machine that looked exactly as futuristic as it should. Once the design had been ...

Although the company sold automobiles through 1958, the last true Packards rolled off the assembly line in 1956. The V8 arrived too late.

Studebaker's first V8 engine came in 1951, and it celebrated its centennial the next year by providing the pace car for the Indianapolis 500. Studebaker unveiled the Avanti at the 1962 New York ...

Power was provided by a Studebaker-sourced 289-cubic-inch (4.7-liter) V8 topped by a McCulloch supercharger (275 horsepower). Called a "Packardbaker" by critics and lacking the exclusivity of ...

Based on the chassis of a Lark Convertible, the Avanti had a European-looking swooping coupe body with round headlights, four seats, and a 289-cubic-inch Studebaker V8. This version, says Hagerty ...