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Classic cars | Alas, the Avanti was Studebaker's last roll of the dice

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Studebaker Avanti
Studebaker Avanti
Stuart Johnston

Studebakers had a kind of schizoid appeal growing up in Pretoria in the early 1960s. News24 Motoring classic car writer Stuart Johnston takes us on another great trip down memory lane.

On the one hand, the cops in the capital city used yellow Studebaker Larks as their pursuit vehicles, which gave them a respectability of sorts tinged with a dab of suspicion and a dose of fear, depending on which side of the law-abiding spectrum you were on.

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