I did it! Pulled the triger on this:

[Quicksilver]

I am now an old man of 71 years. I have been dreaming of owning an Avanti since I was 13 years old, the same year Studebaker introduced them. This car is on my top 5 all time list.
Yes, it needs work, but the price was right and I bought it. To be honest, it was my wife who pushed me to get it.

[Quicksilver]

AGAIN. I tried resizing. I have no idea why my pictures print upside down. Mods, please correct.

[Old Fart]

Not a mod, but I flipped it for you

https://i.postimg.cc/wML4pbXB/20211124-124806.jpg

[RedSN]

Cool project!

Hope you have deep pockets

[ZR]

Yes very cool project..........enjoy!!!

[Stephen06GT]

Count’s Kustoms did one for Alice Cooper on this season of the show.

[redo75]

Is that the car that I saw for sale in New Zealand??

[Quicksilver]

Is that the car that I saw for sale in New Zealand??

No. The guy I bought it from is in Coburg. He brought it up from Virginia about 2 years ago.

[Quicksilver]

Obviously this car will need paint. That will be after ZR makes sure it's right mechanically.
The interior will be a tan leather. The car came with a pair of leather "Charger" buckets with power, and Recaro universal seat mounts. It also has brand new Autometer gauges which just happen to be th3 exact choice of style I was planning.
For the exterior, the choices are

-emerald green metallic

-candy apple red metallic

-"sinamon" a dodge colour. sort of a darkish burnt orange.

-any shade of blue is out of the question.

Opinions are welcome.

[CON VERT]

WHITE

[Uncle Buck]

Really nice project on a cool classic. Needs to be a classy colour, of your choices green gets my vote but I’d lean to a mineral grey.

[ZR]

Deep grey or Silver would be my vote.

[RedSN]

Turquoise

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/1963_Studebaker_Avanti_4.7_Rear.jpg

[Quicksilver]

Turquoise

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/1963_Studebaker_Avanti_4.7_Rear.jpg

Love it. BUT: it could be thought of as a shade of blue, so no go.

[Laffs]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/df/58/d8/df58d8e034ec4caeea1016ecc6685af1.jpg

[Chinga]

Silver or White.

[bluetoy]

Every car on the road now is either white, black or grey. I'd go with a color. Green sounds good. Love the turquoise though.

[Quicksilver]

when I had my yellow Cobra, I was proud of the colour. I'd park on a street downtown when visiting a client, and when I looked back I would see a row of black and dark blue cars, one after the other. Occasionally there would be a red car, and then my yellow car. IT really stood out.
I don't think the Avanti body style works very well with bright yellow, and in fact is probably better with a darker colour. That's why I'm considering emerald Green. Or maybe Sinnamon, which is a Dodge colour.

[Zippy]

Something to consider is going with a colour that is easily matched if something bad does happen down the road. Going with some weird 1 off colour may come back to bite you in the butt in the future.
My vote would be Red or a deep blue especially if you were going to keep all the chrome. But it's your car, you should pick the colour you want.

[Quicksilver]

Thank you. As mentioned, blue is absolutely out of the question. There is what we call the Steinberg Family Blue Car Curse, which has affected every blue car we've ever had, so I won't be stupid enough to go blue again.
And yes, I will be getting a ready made colour rather than a custom mix so that there will be no problem matching it.

[Old Fart]

How about a nice black cherry...

https://i.postimg.cc/nVDzZnNL/Classic-Ford-Mustang-Black-Cherry-241018-6.jpg

[Quicksilver]

How about a nice black cherry...

https://i.postimg.cc/nVDzZnNL/Classic-Ford-Mustang-Black-Cherry-241018-6.jpg

Very nice. Both car and colour

[Old Fart]

Tried to find a black cherry Avanti but my google search didn't find any.

[Laffs]

Black Rose Metallic from the C7 corvette is similar to that paint.

[Stephen06GT]

Count’s Kustoms did one for Alice Cooper on this season of the show.

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[83 5.0]

Every car on the road now is either white, black or grey. I'd go with a color. Green sounds good. Love the turquoise though.
Lol, I have a charcoal grey RAV4, and once tried to get into a Charcoal Grey CRV parked beside mine. Everything looks the same now.

I wonder what colours were offered for the Avanti from the factory that might work?

[ChickenLips]

British racing green, tan interior

[Quicksilver]

[QUOTE=83 5.0;404642
I wonder what colours were offered for the Avanti from the factory that might work?[/QUOTE]

The Avanti II which was built from 1966 to 1990, was available in any colour you chose. Same with interior.

[ZR]

My votes still silver.
No No No to the Foose fade thank you.