Lighten your load, part 1

The Stude­baker Avanti was a rev­o­lu­tion­ary design. It was pro­duced in 1962 — way ahead of its time. Ray­mond Loewy, the designer, was one of the cel­e­brated indus­trial design­ers of the 1950s and 1960s. It is truly a beau­ti­ful car, in many ways.

One lives in our neigh­bor­hood. And its more bro­ken down twin lives in an adja­cent garage. (Pic­tured is my neigh­bor­hood Avanti’s sad eye look­ing downward.)

I qui­etly won­der if its owner will do the restora­tion. Please under­stand that I am not fault­ing him (or her) for delay­ing — I would not be coura­geous to attempt such a major project.

I would sug­gest a path to free­dom and per­haps a few addi­tional dol­lars would be for them to sell the car. And its twin. Guilt over unfin­ished project? Gone.