According to the owner, it's one of four identical examples that Studebaker used during the 1963 Bonneville Salt ... flats to set various speed records. The lineup included the then-new Avanti ...
Studebaker has similarly been lauded ... shattering 29 U.S. speed records in a special R-3 equipped Avanti at the Bonneville Salt Flats, in addition to setting a flying mile record of 170.78 ...