I must confess, when I was 5 years old the
1962 Studebaker Avanti absolutely freaked me out with those creepy headlight "eyes".
For years the sight of this car made my
skin crawl.
It wasn't until Nate Altman, and his production team, re-designed the face of the car as the
Avanti II in
1965 that I could stand to look at the car.
Studebaker closed it's doors in 1966, but the
Avanti II continued as a stand-alone custom production automobile.