Re: [Amc-list] Pacer and Rotary, now basic miss-information.

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "John Elle" <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx>
" 
" 
" The last US built Studebaker was
" 1964 at which point production shifted to Canada for the '65 and '66
" production years. Studebaker sold their South Bend related property et-al
" which included the rights to the Avanti and the Engine manufacturing leaving
" Avanti independently owned and no engine manufacturing capability.

they didn't sell all of the property to the execs who formed avanti,
iirc just the production line involved.  for all i know it may have
been stude's only line...  but avanti motors may have passed on the
engine plant, as making your own engines is expensive.  oddly, even
though they went to gm power [corvette 327s initially] they stuck with
iron warner autos.  i believe gm also helped them with emissions
certs.

towards its end, avanti went rapidly through a succession of owners.
one walked the line and found workers at one area drilling holes in
the chassis [probably for another model that once shared it] and other
workers farther down filling those holes in!  iirc it was the last
owner who moved them from south bend, and that was the really big
mistake which irrevocably killed them.

the last stude v8s were 289 and 304 cubes.  they used ford-pattern
t-10s one year and gm pattern ones the next, requiring different
bellhousings.  the ford bells are somewhat in demand among stude
rodders as they will take a toploader with the early case.

the truck operation was sold to kaiser and eventually became am
general.
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