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Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
Must have been a busy place back then; lot's of employment.
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
Hay Keith Seymore: Just curious>do you of any other GM plant that had "parallel assembly lines" like this?? Larry
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
None that come to mind.
St Louis built both passenger cars and truck (and Corvettes) but I believe they were separate facilities. Oshawa also built both passenger cars and trucks, but I believe that was also separate facilities. When I started at Flint they built Pickups on Line 1 (60 jobs per hour) and Blazer/Suburban on Line 2 (36 jobs per hour). We were the only plant producing GM SUVs at the time. The area between the two final lines was called "the Main Aisle" and that's were all of the plant tours and public festivities took place. For more Flint Assembly pics see:http://www.73-87.com/7387info/Assembly%20Line.htm Scroll down for insightful commentary ![]() K
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=614225 Unfortunately he passed away and the charts are locked up in his photobucket account. I see in the thread that I printed a set of hardcopies for review. If I stumble across those I'll let you know if I find something different. K
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
where did your family move from Keith?
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
Southeast Missouri (the part that looks like a “Boot Heel”); my mom is from Kennett and my dad is from Senath. They moved north in 1955 .
I was working in Wentzville a couple years ago and it occurred to me: hey – why did my family moved to Michigan? Why didn’t they just go to St. Louis or Kansas City to work for GM? (Lol)
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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The wheels started coming off the wagon in the 1980s. K
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
My plant (BMW) started out as a single line for cars, when they got into suv's they added another line just for them. In the early 2000's they went to a single line for both. Later we dropped cars all together and now just do SUV's
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![]() I'm almost certian my plant is 50% locals and 50% people from up north who have moved down here for work...
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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(lol)
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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We picked up my wife’s BMW there, drove the track, toured the plant and loved the the whole experience, first class all the way. So much so that we went back for the M school. |
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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![]() Awesome I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. The M classes are a blast for sure. Did they let you guys on the high speed portion? It must have been a few years ago at least. We have been on lock down the last few years as all our models are undergoing redesigns. You'll have to come back an see how much it's changed!
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
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Would be great to see a lot more of these pics! .
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Re: Old Picture of Flint MI Plant>Chevy Cars & Trucks Being Assembled
I trust you looked at the link already mentioned above:
http://www.73-87.com/7387info/Assembly%20Line.htm LIFE magazine visited the Tarrytown plant and took numerous photos, now posted on line. You could google "LIFE Magazine Tarrytown" - or - I can attach this link which has some narrative from one of my buddies that worked there: http://www.singlefingerspeedshop.com...2&t=553&p=1860 K
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