Z code / Fremont, CA Assembly Plant

[bruceman1968]

Tarrytown code T

[Number98]

Really cool links, Thanks for posting!

Originally Posted by vectorit

The Freemont plant is the birthplace of my Suburban.

Mine too!!

[70c10-08]

Heres a pic I found on the net of the Van Nuys, Ca plant that they built Camaros at back in the day

[70c10-08]

Oh yeah heres a link to the page it has more assembly pics too
http://stevescamaroparts.blogspot.co...1_archive.html

[special-K]

My '72 GMC K2500 is a Freemont baby,as were the other two '72 K/20s owned when I had a trio.

[Sicklajoie]

The 69'er is a Fremont truck.

[john]

Here's some history of the fremont plant. GM and TOYOTA joint venture from 1984 to 2010. Now produces the Tesla electric electric auto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

[67chevy1series]

That VW ain't that big of a deal if you look in one of the pictures there's like a 55 or 56 ford pickup.... That guy was crazy! He probably was just there garbage guy haha
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[factorystock]

Originally Posted by john

Now produces the Tesla electric electric auto.

To my knowledge, Tesla has not made a dime of profit yet.

[domeier]

It's too bad there aren't any photos of the empty Fremont parking lot on Saturday mornings: There were so many beer cans and bottles left out there from the Friday shift you could barely walk through it. Good old days.

[shawno72]

Originally Posted by Sicklajoie

Who's got the balls to drive a VW Beetle to a GM plant back then??

What I like is people couldn't park any better back then

[Coley]

Do you have any you Fremont built truck guys have unique chalk marks under the hood that indicate a specific inspector or?
I was wondering about that because I do have a rather odd chalk mark on mine that I think was made to indicate the inspector.
Coley

[Coley]

Originally Posted by Coley

Do any of you Fremont built truck guys have unique chalk marks under the hood that indicate a specific inspector or?
I was wondering about that because I do have a rather odd chalk mark on mine that I think was made to indicate the inspector, the shift, the day or?
(I'd like to think it indicates the very best truck built that day or that week)
Coley

Sorry about the (previous) phrasing in my prior post guys...I got a phone call right as I was finishing up the posting and it screwed up my thought line.
The question above is hopefully a little more clear and complete.

[bruceman1968]

Coley, Here are a couple of threads that will shed some light. Most if not all trucks and cars had these grease pencil marks on them when they left the factory.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=443786
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ctory+markings

[factorystock]

For the first year full year of truck production in 1964, Fremont was H code. Went to Z code for 1965 and later trucks. Funny, I spend time on the 60-66 forums, but I have never seen anyone post a photo a stock base model '64 panel like the photo in the link (photo of green panel with olds and buick). Thanks agian SS Tim for history lesson.

[Mayo]

Thats awesome, thats where my truck was built. Thanks for sharing.

[Bob B.]

Chevy built trucks at Van Nuys until sometime around 1962. I have a friend with a '55 second series, and it was built at Van Nuys. Van Nuys built Chevy trucks only, but when Fremont opened, it built Chevy's and GMC's. My '67 is a Fremont truck. Van Nuys was a Chevrolet plant, Fremont was B-O-P (Buick, Olds, Pontiac), even though a lot of Chevy A-bodies were built there. That was before GMAD!

[special-K]

Originally Posted by shawno72

What I like is people couldn't park any better back then

Notice how big the spaces were back then? Boy,they sure shrunk those down since back then. No wonder so many door dings!

[VictoriaHardware]

Originally Posted by Sicklajoie

Who's got the balls to drive a VW Beetle to a GM plant back then??

Someone who's recently divorced and has none left

[shawno72]

Originally Posted by special-K

Notice how big the spaces were back then? Boy,they sure shrunk those down since back then. No wonder so many door dings!

I was noticing the same thing. They look to be 1 1/2 times bigger back then.

[Spartan]

Originally Posted by bruceman1968

Wow! 25 trucks and 42 cars per hour. That's amazing!

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I know this post is old so forgive the resurrection but I got to thinking and I really still think about the assembly plants and how many guys/gals are left who worked on the lines.

I have been to the Fremont plant on a number of times and it really is quite impressive.

Question is: is there anybody on this site who worked Fremont from 67-72? If not then I'm thinking about trying to go through the heritage site to see if they'll give up some names??? I doubt it privacy and all but...

BTW thats 600 trucks in a 24 hour day, 218,400 trucks a year...

enjoy the pics because all that farm land is now concrete...

cheers
Nim

[fisherman56]

That's where my '67 was built! Recently got these plates for it, my Vin is Z147***

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Spartan

I know this post is old so forgive the resurrection but I got to thinking and I really still think about the assembly plants and how many guys/gals are left who worked on the lines.

I have never been to Fremont; I started in Flint in 1979 as a GMI student, so we worked in all areas of the plant (inspection, production, plant engineering, labor relations, etc). After I graduated from GMI I was a production supervisor on Line 1 (pickup), Fender set area. I had 27 or so productive operations and about 37 hourly employees to accomplish that.

We built 60 pickups per hour on Line 1 and 36 Blazer/Suburbans per hour on Line 2.

Since then I have been in Engineering/Assembly and Engineering (product design and development).

I have launched new product and supported current production in Flint, Oshawa, St Louis, Janesville, Pontiac, Arlington, Silao, Ft Wayne, Mishawaka and Wentzville (all in support of LD truck) and Detroit-Hamtramck (Chevy Volt and derivatives).

K

[Keith Seymore]

Here is some information from a commemorative booklet, recognizing the Fremont opening and start of production:

http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...d.php?t=613869

K

[SactoJim]

My 72 was built there as well. Got to go on a tour of the facility recently and see Tesla's being built.....pretty incredible. Tesla is only using a fraction of the facility.