My son got this car to fix up.

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Was his girlfriends father’s car. And the father’s uncles car before that.
The girlfriends father died about six years ago and car was sold. Not sure of all the story. Any way it came up for sale and girlfriend was all excited. So they ended up with it.
I have no idea what they will do with it.
Needs a lot of work, but at least it ran and was drove into the last owners garage about 6 years ago.
Last owner was going to fix it up. But never did and was never going to now. So he sold it.

Noel

Who can tell me make, model and year. Trivia game. Hehe.
 

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Original colour we think. And we think this is the same car in picture.

Noel
 

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Studebaker Commander I think. I agree around 48-51 vintage. If the overdrive is a push pull lever under the dash, when pulled out it is in standard drive and locked in. Pushed in overdrive is activated and you shift up to 3rd, then let up on the gas, OD kicks in and punch the gas and away you go. Never had a Sutde but had a '50 Ford that worked about the same way.
 
IIRC you had to get up to about 30 MPH and let off the gas and it would electrically shift to overdrive. If you wanted passing gear you pushed the accelerator all the way down and it would shift into direct, let off the accelerator and it would shift back to overdrive. A solenoid did the shifting from direct to OD and back and a governor that ran off the tailshaft would determine when it would go to OD above 30 MPH. Below 30 MPH and it would drop out of overdrive. I had 3 different cars with it, a '53 plymouth, a '57 chev and a '64 rambler american.
Mike
 
First time I drove an overdrive it scared the bejeebers out of me. Coming down a hill and let off the gas to slow down. It didn't. Started gaining speed like a runaway freight train. Fortunately the owner was with me and told me what to do. Free wheeling down a hill can be scary when your driving someone else's car. 1950 Plymouth station wagon if I remember correctly.
Noel I think you'll enjoy it when you get it running.
 
Seemed like the one I drove just had a handle under the dash that you pulled out to put it in OD. Would free wheel at any speed. That's been 50 years ago though.
 
My mom had a 47 Stud Commander.

Fine old rare at car shows today nearly any model of Stud including trhe Avanti.

:D Al
 
ol' stonebreaker said:
The only thing wrong with the Avanti was it was built before it's time.
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And the heads on the 289 were prone to cracking if equipped with the Paxton supercharger option. I never worked on one personally but this was the story going around at the time. Never could get myself to like the looks but the engineering was very intriguing.
 
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