I've amassed a fair collection of Stude-related magazine articles, and periodically go back and re-read them. I found this paragraph from an Avanti article from Car Life, June 1963 issue and thought it was interesting with the benefit of hindsight. Remember, this was just 7 or 8 months before The December closing of the SB factory:
For the first Avanti to roll off a South Bend assembly line was a distinct accomplishment, a tribute to the changing outlook of that city's workers (now numbering some 5700). With the production moving into full swing, and no less purposeful hands sanding, bonding and finishing the fiberglass bodies, it becomes significant testimony to the workers' determination to bring their cars back to the peak of public esteem.
Boy, were they way off.....[B)]
So what was this- hopeful spin, complete underestimation, or total denial?
Robert (Bob) Andrews- on the IoMT (Island of Misfit Toys)
Parish, central NY 13131
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Ephesians 6:10-17
For the first Avanti to roll off a South Bend assembly line was a distinct accomplishment, a tribute to the changing outlook of that city's workers (now numbering some 5700). With the production moving into full swing, and no less purposeful hands sanding, bonding and finishing the fiberglass bodies, it becomes significant testimony to the workers' determination to bring their cars back to the peak of public esteem.
Boy, were they way off.....[B)]
So what was this- hopeful spin, complete underestimation, or total denial?
Robert (Bob) Andrews- on the IoMT (Island of Misfit Toys)
Parish, central NY 13131
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Ephesians 6:10-17
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