Ir recall Elmer and the car. I think he bought it new, never titled in
the 70's.

We had some reason to look  up Walt this past spring.  He was alive and
well- had moved to a retirement community not too far from where he had
lived for many years.  He is just out of the hobby.
Paul Johnson

I remember visiting Walt Bottjer at his home (Camden??) back in the late
1970's on one of my rare distance trips in the Avanti.  A real hospital
guy (and his wife) and a day well spent.  He had a zillion mile '64
Avanti R1 in gray primer that he drove everywhere...

JT

I probably last saw Shweppy in the late '80s.  He used to come over to
our chapter meets.  I remember him making a big stink about Avanti
skipping the 1986 model year.  I said; how about Corvette for 1983?  He
was a used car dealer and big into Corvettes.  He didn't believe me
until he got his NADA book out of his car.  Elmer had already sold that
low mileage Avanti by that time.  In fact, the guy that bought the
Avanti from him (from NYC) bought a 1973 Laguna from me as a result of
a conversation at that Studebaker meet.  Several people bought new
Avantis in 1973.  It seems that several Studebaker dealers kept them
for ten years.  I last saw Walt B. at the 2005 SDC Atlantic Zone Meet.
He was driing a 1987(?) ElCamino.