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Feb 5, 2009 | 10:39 PM

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Here is some interesting reading

http://corvette-world.com/corvette-trivia-t-15.html

Feb 6, 2009 | 02:46 AM

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Interesting reading....thanks for sharing

Feb 6, 2009 | 03:28 AM

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Good stuff!

I believe the Saint Louis plant also produced and assembled the fiberglass body and floor pan for Studebaker's '63 & '64 Avanti.
Can any Forum members confirm this?

Feb 6, 2009 | 07:49 AM

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Feb 6, 2009 | 07:50 AM

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Interesting reading....thanks for sharing

Feb 6, 2009 | 08:17 AM

not08crmanymore

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#The original emblem, features a crossed American and checkered flags but it was change with a front emblems and horn button contained a black and white checkered flag and a red Chevrolet bow-tie and fleur-de-lis because it is against the law to use an American flag on a product trade mark.

Nobody ever mentions the guy who came up with the emblem.That would be ROBERT BARTHOLOMEW.He made the first one,it got rejected for the law mentioned,so he made the current one in a matter of a couple of days!Also,it's his handwriting we all see on GM valve covers that read "CHEVROLET"!

Louis CHEVROLET was Swiss,not French.

oh ok,just saw where they mentioned this guys name!

Feb 6, 2009 | 08:29 AM

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Good stuff!

I believe the Saint Louis plant also produced and assembled the fiberglass body and floor pan for Studebaker's '63 & '64 Avanti.
Can any Forum members confirm this?

I think the fiberglass panels where made by Molded Fiberglass Products Company out of Ohio and then the Avanti assembled in South Bend Indiana..

Feb 6, 2009 | 08:47 AM

Wayne O

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Thanks for sharing the information and link!

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Feb 6, 2009 | 08:56 AM

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I think the fiberglass panels where made by Molded Fiberglass Products Company out of Ohio and then the Avanti assembled in South Bend Indiana..

I can't speak to the exact details, but have an interesting story. In the mid '60s my grandfather had a farm in Ashtabula, OH. I was about 13 years old or so when the owner of that company came by my grandfathers farm - I think he bought some land from my Grandfather. He was driving an Avanti. I was already a car nut and was really blown away by the Avanti.

In 2002 I was at the Labor Day bash in BG and that guys son was there. I met him and told him the story of meeting his father nearly 40 years earlier. Amazingly "small world" we live in!

[Edit] - I just did a google search - yep, that is the company and they are still headquartered in Ashtabula. BTW, the reason he was in BG is that I think they make the plastic compartments in the back of the Corvette. Remember that the C5 had much bigger compartments in back under the floor.

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