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Andy Granatelli’s Paxton Products, then part of Studebaker, added a Paxton supercharger to create the R2. Immediately generating high excitement, the Avanti promised to pack Studebaker showrooms like nothing else in years. They also devised a trio of bored-out, 304.5-cid extensions: blown R3 with 9.6:1 compression and 335 bhp; naturally aspirated R4 with twin four-barrels, 12:1 compression, and 280 bhp; and the experimental R5 with twin blowers (one per cylinder bank), magneto ignition, Bendix fuel injection, and no less than 575 bhp. Calamitously, production was delayed a critical six months by botched bodies from the supplier, Molded Fiber Glass Company (which also built Corvette shells), forcing Studebaker to set up its own fiberglass production.
Easily the most-stunning South Bend product in a decade, the Avanti lived up to its name — “forward” in Italian — brilliantly conceived by Raymond Loewy and his stellar team of John Ebstein, Robert Andrews and Tom Kellogg. Because new Studebaker designer Brooks Stevens was occupied with updating higher-volume models, president Sherwood H. Egbert had turned to longtime designer Loewy Associates for the exotic sporty car he felt would rejuvenate Studebaker’s sagging image when it bowed in 1962 — a swoopy four-seat coupe of the sort Loewy had been designing for years. As with Chevrolet’s first Corvette of a decade before, fiberglass was chosen for the Avanti bodyshell to minimize both time and tooling costs.
Predictably, South Bend’s cars changed little for ’48, though a winged hood medallion provided instant identification. South Bend moved up a notch on the industry roster, finishing seventh for the model year with nearly 185,000 cars. Another, more significant linewide change was a price hike averaging $200, bringing stickers to $1535-$2430 in reflection of strong postwar inflation. Though brand-new styling was planned for 1949 to one-up the competition again, lack of time precluded it, so Studebaker settled for refinements.
