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The supercharged Avanti model was America’s fastest production car sold in 1963. Raymond Loewy’s four-man design team in Palm Springs created the initial Avanti concept in just three weeks in the spring of 1961. Studebaker engineers raced to bring the Avanti to market in just one year, with a full-throttle publicity campaign generating incredible demand that the company was ultimately unable to meet.

The Studebaker Avanti was built in South Bend, Indiana from June 1962 through December 1963.  Serial No. 63R-1662 was the 662nd Avanti ever built.

Only 1,389 Studebaker Avanti automobiles were built in all of 1962 for the 1963 model year.

Studebaker shuttered its South Bend factories in December 1963, after building only 4,647 Avanti sportscars.