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1961 – 1962
The name, from the supplier's own history: The Studebaker note carried the Avanti's fiberglass body supplier as universally repeated and nowhere verified first-hand: Molded Fiber Glass of Ashtabula, Ohio. The supplier's own published history settles it. The Molded Fiber Glass Companies' corporate history enters the Avanti in its own list of works, under 1961: "To get the Avanti to market quickly, its body panels were molded of fiberglass not stamped sheet metal." The entry stands in the company's own timeline among its own milestones — the 1953 Corvette body work before it, the 1964 heavy-truck bodies after — and it is the molder's own claim of the work. The Avanti's fiberglass body panels were molded by the Molded Fiber Glass Companies of Ashtabula, Ohio, the firm Robert S. Morrison founded there in 1948; the note's open item closes on the supplier's own record.
Sources:
- Molded Fiber Glass Companies, published company history (mfgcwp.com), entry under 1961 — the Avanti's body panels molded of fiberglass, entered among the company's own works; the company's founding by Robert S. Morrison at Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1948, entered under that year.