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Bisa Nitip Bisa Dititp: Car of the Week: 1939 Lincoln Zephyr
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Car of the Week: 1939 Lincoln Zephyr
A Zephyr sight unseen, Harley Earl from the inside and a Cadillac-powered Avanti in this week's newsletter.
Sometimes you have to buy on faith. This owner did just that on this gorgeous 1939 Lincoln Zephyr.
Wally Messner knew he didn't have much to lose when he decided to buy his 1939 Lincoln Zephyr sight-unseen, halfway across the country, off some sketchy internet website.
Even if the car needed quite a bit of work to be drivable and look good, he was sure there wasn't much risk in buying it. And it's hard to argue with his logic.
"Like [my wife Lynn] always tells me, if you keep looking, you're going to find something. I'm always looking," jokes Messner, a resident of Fond du Lac, Wis. "At the time I had the '34 [Lincoln] and I'm a big Lincoln fan. That was probably 20 years ago now … It was just on some obscure website. Normally you think of eBay and standard places where you look for old cars, but this was some website I'd never heard of in Nevada. A guy had this car for sale that he bought out of an estate, partially restored."
"I probably shouldn't even say this, but I only paid $6,500 for it. Obviously, the guy was only trying to make a little more for it than he paid for it at the estate sale. I bought it sight-unseen. I just figured for that price, if everything he says about the car is even halfway true, the car was such a deal!"
Retired GM designer reflects on Harley Earl's lasting impact
There are many books and stories written by writers about Harley Earl, but none from the perspective of a car designer who worked in the design profession for 40 years, and in the environment that Earl created for those who followed him.
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Tracking down the one-of-a-kind Studebaker Avanti originally owned by Joe Granatelli and powered by a Cadillac 429-cid V-8 evolved into an extensive background story.
This article started out to be an update on the current status and whereabouts of a truly one-of-a-kind Studebaker Avanti originally owned by Joe Granatelli and powered by a Cadillac 429-cid V-8. It evolved into something a bit more as some additional facts and circumstances surrounding this unique Avanti emerged.
A Supercharged Background
In 1962, Paxton Products, known for its supercharger business, became a subsidiary of Studebaker. Paxton Products ownership had consisted of Andy Granatelli and his brothers, Joe and Vince. Collectively, they were well-known and recognized for their mechanical and engine performance-enhancement abilities. At this time, Andy Granatelli was also the head of Studebaker's racing division. Hence, the supercharger venture was well within the Granatelli brothers' wheelhouse. As a subsidiary of Studebaker Corp., Paxton had a working relationship with Studebaker that allowed for many unusual situations from which the new Avanti would benefit (most notably, the installation of a Paxton supercharger to several Studebaker models, including the Avanti).
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