mfg Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 When Nate Altman and Leo Newman opened Avanti Motors, they hired on ......?..... ex Studebaker employees. 1) Fourteen.......2) Twenty.......3) Twenty Seven.....or.....4) Thirty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 No thoughts/guesses here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1lark Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 Well, guessing here........since there were lots of ex-Studebaker employees in South Bend, I'll say 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studegary Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 Paul already said 30, so I will say 27. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 12 hours ago, r1lark said: Well, guessing here........since there were lots of ex-Studebaker employees in South Bend, I'll say 30. Good thought!....however, 30 isn't the number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 8 hours ago, studegary said: Paul already said 30, so I will say 27. Another good thought, however, 27 isn't the number either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 ANSWER to this trivia question.......TWENTY former Studebaker employees! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footer Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 Did they all come off the Studebaker Avanti assembly line? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 16 minutes ago, Footer said: Did they all come off the Studebaker Avanti assembly line? Mike Good question!.....I can only offer my opinion that no they did not all come from working the Studebaker Avanti assembly line.......Perspective Avanti ll employees were probably offered jobs based on their particular automotive skill set & expertise. I also believe that seniority at Studebaker had little, if anything, to do with being hired to build the "new" Avanti ll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger Posted January 1, 2022 Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 From what I've read...most, if not all, new hires were experienced Studebaker people. Age and seniority were irrelevant...it was the best people available who were willing to work were hired. I'm sure pay had something to do with it...they were pretty much all out of jobs with few prospects...especially if they were older...so they probably could have been bought cheap. And Avanti Motors couldn't afford to to pay high union wages either as a new startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfg Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Gunslinger said: From what I've read...most, if not all, new hires were experienced Studebaker people. Age and seniority were irrelevant...it was the best people available who were willing to work were hired. I'm sure pay had something to do with it...they were pretty much all out of jobs with few prospects...especially if they were older...so they probably could have been bought cheap. And Avanti Motors couldn't afford to to pay high union wages either as a new startup. I agree!.... at the time, Nate Altman certainly had the "Pick Of The Litter"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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