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Studebaker Avanti Red Solido 1:18

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Studebaker Avanti Red Solido 1:18 421183270 Diecast
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Solido's 1:18 diecast Studebaker Avanti arrives in red, reproducing Raymond Loewy's fiberglass-bodied grand tourer, one of the boldest design departures of the early 1960s. A genuinely distinctive American GT for a classic sports car shelf.
Studebaker Avanti Red Solido 1:18
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Brand
Studebaker
Manufacturer
Solido
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
421183270
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About the Studebaker Avanti Red Solido 1:18

TL;DR: Solido's 1:18 diecast Studebaker Avanti in red reproduces Raymond Loewy's fiberglass-bodied 1963 grand tourer, a design so distinctive it outlived the company that built it. Wedge-nosed proportions and a coke-bottle waistline set this apart from anything else on a 1960s American car shelf.

Few American cars of the early 1960s took as bold a design risk as the Avanti, and this diecast captures the shape that made a struggling manufacturer briefly relevant again.

Reproducing Loewy's Wedge-Nosed Design

The Avanti's front end, with its distinctive wedge nose and absence of a traditional grille, was radical for its time, and Solido's diecast reproduces that unconventional face accurately rather than softening it into a more generic period shape. Red paint suits the Avanti's confident, sporting character, and the model's coke-bottle waistline, another Loewy design signature, reads clearly along the car's flanks at 1:18. Construction gives the model genuine weight in hand, and while the real car's body was fiberglass, the diecast reproduction naturally uses metal construction typical of its scale and era, delivering the shape accurately regardless of the original's material choice. Getting the nose and roofline proportions right matters enormously here, since the Avanti's entire reputation rests on that singular styling statement.

A Design Ahead of Studebaker's Financial Reality

Designed by Raymond Loewy's team and launched in 1962, the Avanti arrived as Studebaker's ambitious attempt to reposition itself as a builder of genuinely modern, safety-conscious grand tourers, featuring a fiberglass body and front disc brakes ahead of many contemporaries. The company's financial troubles cut the original run short by 1963, but the design proved so compelling that independent successors continued building Avantis in small numbers for years afterward.

For a 1960s American GT or design-history shelf, the Avanti stands out precisely because nothing else from the era looked remotely like it.

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