March 2006 RQB2880, finished in July 1979 and shipped to Friendship Avanti in New York. My Aunt and Uncle from Warren, Ohio, saw it there and had to have it. It was my Aunt's car although titled as a company car. When it was fully depreciated on the books in 1983 they sold it to me: it had less than 12,000 miles on it then. I put about 4000 miles on it in 83-84 but have driven it less and less since then. In the last couple years, less than 100 miles a year. It has about 19,500 miles on it now. EQUIPMENT: "Corvette" 350 with the cast valve covers and Turbo-Hydro 400 (some years only had the TH 350). Power steering, brakes, door locks, windows, antenna.....reclining passenger seat....FULL leather interior package.....wood dash and console......Nardi steering wheel........Magnum 500s (5) ......air.....rear defroster......luggage rack......tinted glass......cruise control.....driving lights.......glass (not plastic) headlight covers. The color is contemporary Mercedes "Dark Red": it's a maroon/burgundy. Interior color is called Caramel: medium/saddle tan with maroon piping. CONDITION: It's always been pampered. Not a museum piece, but as good as you could possibly expect for a 1979 car with original paint. There are a few stone chips and other imperfections.......you can tell the interior has been sat in but that's about it (I never even sit on the leather in cold weather and it's been treated regularly so there are no cracks or wear). I don't detail the engine, but it's pretty clean. The car has never been out of the garage overnight and was only caught in the rain once, so the frame and hog troughs, suspension, nuts and bolts underneath, etc., are like new. The chrome is very good: no pitted or peeling bumpers like most. CHANGES: When this car needed something, it got the best. I've made a few upgrades over the years but in every case, if anything was changed, I still have the original parts that will go with the car: . exhaust: had the single converter with twin tailpipes system and oval mufflers. these rusted out sitting in the garage, so the entire system was replaced with a real dual system as used for the 70-73 models: no converter, straight pipes front to back with glasspacks. It rumbles.....but is not noticeable once you're underway. . the Cibie fog lights were replaced with Hella driving lights. regular headlights were replaced with Halogen. . it came with a Blaupunkt (sp?) AM-FM stereo radio which I replaced with a Panasonic AM-FM-cassette unit. I never had the heart to cut the interior to put-in bigger speakers, but I did put in better quality speakers behind the original grills. . the center dash "speaker" grill was replaced with the cubby tray that was introduced in the 1980s. . it has had the quick steering arms installed. . when the radiator went a couple years ago, it got the extra-thick HD one from Newman-Altman. . the original fan clutch was the kind that supposedly freewheels until the engine gets hot........never give an Avanti a chance to get hot, so the clutch was replaced with the type that runs at all temperatures from freewheels at higher rpms. . the original shocks went a couple years ago and I had the gas type installed. That improved the ride, but the front end tends to float at high speed: if I drove it more, I would replace the front shocks with regular HD type. WHAT IT NEEDS: the driver's power door lock doesn't work most of the time........the air-conditioning was charged for the first time a couple years ago and has lost the charge again. It's the big Frigidaire radial compressor and I'm told it needs a new seal, or, understand it could be replaced with a newer, smaller unit that would save about 50 pounds of weight, too........the car has the original style metal rear bumperettes, not the rubber ones.. they pitted so I had them rechromed and then dipped them in urethane so they are fine. Had the tail lights replated at the same time......one of them is pitting thru again. COMES WITH: all the literature from the dealer including building sheet, brochures, owners manuals, dealer license frames.....even the dealer's leather key fob. Have the Shop and Parts manuals.......front bra.......flannel lined cover......and a few NOS stock parts like extra rubber bumper pads.......plus all the original parts as mentioned above. AGAIN......this is not a #1 car........it would need a respray to be a show car, but I think it is much too nice to use as a driver. It ISN'T a "20 footer"....more like a "5 footer": it looks good and really turns heads. If you know Avanti's you know how expensive a rusted frame can be to deal with........and I can imagine how much it would cost redo an interior in vinyl, let alone the kind of leather this one has. So - I'm not giving it away, but you couldn't duplicate it for anything near what I'm asking!