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Godfrey said:
hehe ... As I suspected, the accelerator pump on one of them had come apart in the float bowl, the actuating linkage on the other was bent causing the throttle to hang up. The shop did a spectacular job of repairing the damage, cleaning, and flow-testing ... Truly great work!
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Godfrey, I see 123 ignition, no expense spared then. I fitted it to my DS23ie Pallas. Made a significant difference.

Currently I am wresting with a '60s Fiat 600 that has something of an oil and water retention problem. Sweet little car first registered in Mombasa so it has been around!
 
Dralowid said:
Godfrey, I see 123 ignition, no expense spared then. I fitted it to my DS23ie Pallas. Made a significant difference.

Currently I am wresting with a '60s Fiat 600 that has something of an oil and water retention problem. Sweet little car first registered in Mombasa so it has been around!
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Couldn't see any point in trying to go cheap on essentials like ignition and fuel system. I sourced the ignition bits from LaLancia.com in Los Angeles. That was a very fast, quick installation.

The electric fuel pump kit came from Historic Racing Works in Germany, a Lancia performance specialist. It drops right in too, works perfectly: no more cranking the engine on the starter for two minutes to fill the float bowls after sitting a while!

Can't wait to be driving the beastie again. 🙂

Good luck with the FIAT 600!

G
 
Oil goes in here.

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Mike
 
Buick Riviera - in Yokohama - very unusual.

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I caught this beauty in the owner's driveway while on my walk the day before yesterday: a 1964 Studebaker Avanti!


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What a beautiful car! Probably the most beautiful American car of my childhood... to me, anyway.
And yes: it is missing one of the windshield wiper arms... The owner told me it was being rechromed. 😉

G
 
Yokosuka_Mike said:
Where is Doug? This thread is no fun without Doug's keen observations and brilliant comments! Doug, where are you?

I'm waiting for Doug. Period.

All the best,
Mike
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LOL, thank you, Mike! You've been doing great identifying your auto victims. Which are always so clean and polished. The Riviera was a good looking car, better I think than its FWD cousin Pontiac Toronado (Edit: - Oops make that an Oldsmobile!)
And that Avanti! So distinctive, and the styling works. As attractive as the 1953-54 Commander coupe that the Hawk was based on? One of those was featured in a early Bond story and was used by Felix Leiter the CIA agent and had a Cadillac V8 transplant... 😎
 
Godfrey said:
I caught this beauty in the owner's driveway while on my walk the day before yesterday: a 1964 Studebaker Avanti!


iPhone 11 Pro, Snapseed​

What a beautiful car! Probably the most beautiful American car of my childhood... to me, anyway.
And yes: it is missing one of the windshield wiper arms... The owner told me it was being rechromed. 😉

G
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Studebaker did such an incredible job on the Avanti! The styling is very effective, especially when you consider the hidden grill.

Designers of modern electric cars often have difficulty styling a front end without a grill. The Avanti is a great example of how to accomplish it.

- Murray
 
Doug! Thanks for showing up!

Godfrey,

The first time I saw a Studebaker Avanti it was parked in front of a Dairy Queen in Warsaw, New York. I was 16 years old (I’m 66 years old now) and I had just gotten my drivers permit and had suddenly taken an interest in cars. I was driving my fathers Ford Econoline Van (3 on the tree) (his other car was a fire engine red Pontiac Bonneville with white leather interior). Anyway, we pulled into the DQ and I asked my father what was that exquisite looking gold car? He told me it was a Studebaker Avanti. At that point in time my only association with Studebaker was that it was the car that old fuddy duddys drove. To make an already too long story shorter… I was blown away with the Avanti and asked my father what was up with it, why weren't there more on the road? At that time I think Studebaker was going out of business. Anyway, my father told me that Studebaker was way too far ahead of the times for their own good. End of story.

Side note: We went into the DQ and the lady behind the counter was Mrs. Weatherwax (she went to the same church as we did) (she was a loud mouth). She asked my father what he wanted? He was picking up the order for my mother and what he could remember was that she wanted a George Washington Cherry Vanilla ice cream or something like that. When he told Mrs. Weatherwax that she squealed and howled with laughter (in front of the other customers) and said there was no such ice cream named that. My father just said “Michael, we’re leaving” we left and we never went back. Such is one of the many memories of my dear old father.

All the best,
Mike
 
Yokosuka_Mike said:
Doug! Thanks for showing up!

Godfrey,

The first time I saw a Studebaker Avanti it was parked in front of a Dairy Queen in Warsaw, New York. I was 16 years old (I’m 66 years old now) and I had just gotten my drivers permit and had suddenly taken an interest in cars. I was driving my fathers Ford Econoline Van (3 on the tree) (his other car was a fire engine red Pontiac Bonneville with white leather interior). Anyway, we pulled into the DQ and I asked my father what was that exquisite looking gold car? He told me it was a Studebaker Avanti. At that point in time my only association with Studebaker was that it was the car that old fuddy duddys drove. To make an already too long story shorter… I was blown away with the Avanti and asked my father what was up with it, why weren't there more on the road? At that time I think Studebaker was going out of business. Anyway, my father told me that Studebaker was way too far ahead of the times for their own good. End of story.

Side note: We went into the DQ and the lady behind the counter was Mrs. Weatherwax (she went to the same church as we did) (she was a loud mouth). She asked my father what he wanted? He was picking up the order for my mother and what he could remember was that she wanted a George Washington Cherry Vanilla ice cream or something like that. When he told Mrs. Weatherwax that she squealed and howled with laughter (in front of the other customers) and said there was no such ice cream named that. My father just said “Michael, we’re leaving” we left and we never went back. Such is one of the many memories of my dear old father.

All the best,
Mike
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Heh ... Your father sounds like mine. 🙂

I grew up in New Rochelle, NY. I remember there was a Studebaker dealer in town and, yes, they were going out of business by the time I was old enough to be interested ... That was 9 yo for me because one of my uncles had bought a Porsche and another had a Corvette, AND there was a family down the street who had a Cooper racing car in the garage. I probably saw the Avanti in the dealer window when riding in one or the other of my uncles' cars.

My true life car obsession was fixed three years later ... 1966 ... when I spied that Lancia Fulvia Sport Zagato sitting brand new in a driveway when out with my dad to go to the toy shop or pet shop. The Fulvia Coupe I own today is a direct result of seeing and hearing that car 55 years ago... I have been determined that that entry in my bucket list would not go unchecked! 😀

G
 
Doug said:
LOL, thank you, Mike! You've been doing great identifying your auto victims. Which are always so clean and polished. The Riviera was a good looking car, better I think than its FWD cousin Pontiac Toronado (Edit: - Oops make that an Oldsmobile!)
And that Avanti! So distinctive, and the styling works. As attractive as the 1953-54 Commander coupe that the Hawk was based on? One of those was featured in a early Bond story and was used by Felix Leiter the CIA agent and had a Cadillac V8 transplant... 😎
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The Buick Riviera was a good car but was basically just a standard front engine, live rear axle, luxury-oriented design. The Oldsmobile Toronado broke new ground engineering-wise with the FWD setup and was somewhat sportier in character to drive. Both were bigger and heavier than my druthers.

The Studebaker Avanti was really the last gasp of Studebaker and broke some ground engineering and feature-wise. I found a decent summary article about them ... the Studebaker engines for it were pretty cool too! ... http://www.danjedlicka.com/classic_cars/studebaker_avanti.html
Sadly, they only managed a very small number of them before Studebaker died, but others took on making them as a low production custom for some time. It still appeals to me as a beautiful design today and does not look as dated as a lot of other cars from that time.

G
 
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