VIDEO: Avanti R5089 Startup after a 40+ year hibernation

[lschuc]

After about 40 years of silence, Avanti R5089, the first of nine production R3 Avantis, comes to life. Enjoy these three short videos. More fine tuning will take place in the coming days, and now, the rest of the restoration can continue, ie: interior, glass and trim. See Avanti Magazine Fall/Winter 2015 (Issue 172), page 36-37 for more details of this historically significant Studebaker Avanti.

Brad Bez worked this week to check the engine and wiring for Randy Rapp's Avanti.

After about 40 years of silence, Avanti R5089, the first of nine production R3 Avantis, comes to life.

[lschuc]

VIDEO: Avanti R5089 Startup after a 40+ year hibernation

Avanti 5089: Tuning

The first production Studebaker Avanti gets tuned and run-in to break in the new cam and lifters after a 40-year hibernation.

Note the engine number of R5089's original engine 42-seconds into this video: R3 B320.

[lschuc]

Avanti 5089: Idle time & first run

[cruiser]

WOW , thanx so much for posting the three videos ... -------------------- CRUISER

[bezhawk]

I need a haircut. Lew, your photoshopping skills needed. i'm better looking than that in real life.

[lschuc]

I need a haircut. Lew, your photoshopping skills needed. i'm better looking than that in real life.

Your professor Einstein look! Genius at work

[2R2]

Great news! I am happy to see R3 Avanti #1 coming together after all these years.

[StudeRich]

What did I miss? WHY would Lew claim that R5089 is the FIRST Production Avanti? We of course know that R1001 was. This one is close to the LAST, even has an R3!

[R3 challenger]

Probably a typo, Rich--I think Lew meant that it's the first production R3 Avanti.

Congrats--fine work, Lew and the Professor!

George

[nels]

There's no link to the videos?

[StudeRich]

There's no link to the videos?

I was able to just click the "GO" Arrow and play the Videos, maybe you don't have the right settings on your Video Player program.
You do need to be logged in of course, sometimes you will be "Timed Out" automatically and not know it.

[nels]

I was able to just click the "GO" Arrow and play the Videos, maybe you don't have the right settings on your Video Player program.
You do need to be logged in of course, sometimes you will be "Timed Out" automatically and not know it.

No go arrow on my screen. I'm logged in or I couldn't post.

[SN-60]

That was very interesting to watch, however, I believe everyone in the video would have probably benefited from some type of 'exhaust vacuum system' in that garage!

Or at least flexible rubber exhaust hoses run from the Avanti's tailpipes to the outside of the building!

[tim333]

Videos don't open for me either on a Samsung Galaxy Edge Six Plus

[jpepper]

I had the block for that car for many years. Bob Kapteyn and I did a little trading and he got the original block back. Glad it is reunited with it's original home.