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AVANTI MAGAZINE
CONTENTS
Winter/Spring 2009
24
Record-setting auction
price for
Avanti
22
Electrified
Avanti
ON THE COVER:
Never before seen
sketches reveal what
Tom Kellogg had in mind
for the Avanti of the
future. Read more inside
on pages 28-29.
REAR COVER:
Valvoline took advantage
of Studebaker’s
record-setting speed at
Bonneville in 1964 with a
series of full-page ads.
20
Stude in the weeds
Courtesy Ed Meyer
48
Features
Tech
Scale Avanti in brass takes shape
News
5
From the President
34
Q & A with Jon Myer
9
Former Studebaker VP dies
6
Editor’s Ramblings
36
Avanti repair
11
Stude museum wins award, grants
7
Letters
37
Tips from the World’s Most
21
AOAI membership drive
12
Loewy in Life
Wonderful Mechanic
39
AOAI Achievement Awards
14
Found: Raymond Loewy’s Jaguar
40
2009 International Meet
16
Bonneville 2009 update
52
Chapter Happenings
19
Review: “Art of the Hot Rod”
64
AOAI monthly board minutes
30
Avanti: A lifelong dream
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