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Keith Seymore 07-28-2010 05:43 PM

GM Tech Center Employee Car Show
 
Pics from today's event:

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Some of you might remember my story about running into a fellow Pontiac enthusiast at the local Wendy's; this is him: John Leahy. His car is in the Darwin Holmstrom/David Newhardt GTO book, towards the front:

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The forecast called for rain in the early afternoon, so I brought my daily driver pickup rather than one of the old Pontiacs.

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When I parked next to the guy in the Lotus I thought "oh, good - no door dings". What I did not count on was butt prints from the crowd of people surrounding that little car all day... :rolleyes:


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Keith Seymore 07-28-2010 05:44 PM

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I'm askin for one of these for Christmas:
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A vintage Michigan "Manufacturer's" plate, legally registered for historic vehicle use:

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Another tripower, 4 speed vert '65 for Larry "bigpop"...
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Jeff Denison's Judge, as featured in the GM calendar (seen laying on the rad support):
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You "Pony-yak" guys might not care so much, but this is the old Chevrolet Central Office "Headquarters" building (as in "Central Office Production Order" - COPO). There is still some pre-production manufacturing in the shop areas, mostly prototype body builds, but the front office area, where the Chevy execs used to reside, is now vacant. You can see even the name has been removed from above the lobby.

I'll say this - some of the PPO Manufacturing guys sure have nice offices...(LOL)

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form74 07-28-2010 05:47 PM

Thanks for the pics, Keith, some nice cars in those shots.

Keith Seymore 07-28-2010 05:48 PM

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The cars under these canopies belong to GM Vice Chairman (and noted car guy) Tom Stephens:
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This is a "Dort". I don't believe I've ever seen one before. J Dallas Dort was an early industrialist and GM financial backer, quite famous in the Flint area (as in "Dort Highway"):
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A Kaiser-Darren. One of only a few hundred produced:
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Anybody care to guess what this started out as? ;)
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And this, my friends, is why it pays to bring your daily driver to a car show; that's rain you can see coming down in the foreground. I guess we can see who the two hardest working GM Employee Car show participants were, eh? (lol)

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Tom Vaught 07-28-2010 06:14 PM

Nice, We just had our Employee Car Show at the Research & Engineering Center in Dearborn, Mi last week.

Looks like you had a nice turn-out and hope you missed the rain.

Tom Vaught

Cammer-6 07-28-2010 07:38 PM

Boy some people have all the fun.....
and probably got paid for it too.
Nice turnout and thanks for sharing

Keith Seymore 07-28-2010 08:15 PM

Yep - it's good work, if you can get it....

(...on the other hand, I am on my computer at 8 o clock at night doing work emails...)

:rolleyes:

K

Terry M. Hunt 07-28-2010 09:17 PM

GM Tech Center
 
A really nice location for a show, and what a variety of vehicles. All those '61 Catalinas in one place would make me swoon. Some realy cool old pickups also. And that Iris Mist Bonneville, whew!

AGTO8U 07-28-2010 11:18 PM

Wow, lots of pictures of great cars...........Thanks for sharing.

65gto69 07-28-2010 11:46 PM

Thanks for the pics.

All the cars look great.

What a place to have a car show, the grounds look awesome. I love all the water, makes for a great setting.

Mark

2002Z4CSS 07-29-2010 07:28 AM

Wow, tons of nice caes there. I was invited to bring my pace car Camaro SS there in August 2006 when GM made the announcement the Camaro was going to be built again. I was near the amplitheater hill. GM supplied us with lunch and some Camaro goodies. I got to sit in the silver Concept Camaro that day before it was unvieled to the GM employees. We stashed the car near a couple tall buildings on the complex. Got GM Vice Presidents Ed Pepper and Ed Welburn to sign my cars scrap book. Both even gave me their business cards. After this we went to the GM Hertiage Center. Fun day for sure. :)

GTOnly70 07-29-2010 09:35 AM

Great pics, Keith - thanks for posting. Love the light green '69(?) GMC truck.

shawn e. 07-29-2010 09:43 AM

Thanks for the pics! Did anyone tell you that spectator parking was else where?:p

Shawn

Keith Seymore 07-29-2010 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shawn e. (Post 4057031)
Thanks for the pics! Did anyone tell you that spectator parking was else where?:p

Shawn

You stinker!

Actually, I wrote the organizers ahead of time, and suggested that I could bring the Grand Prix/GTO combination (GTO on the tow bar) if they were interested. My real motivation was that I was fishing for a better parking spot, like up front by the display vehicles (lol).

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Since I never heard back, and because of the threat of rain, I figured the truck was less risky...

:noidea:

shawn e. 07-29-2010 10:18 AM

That is cool as Heck! But I bet you would of gotten a lot of "I see the goat couldn't make it on her own power" comments!

Shawn

66GTO Jim 07-29-2010 10:20 AM

Thanks for posting so many great Motor City area car shows Keith! Fun for me and my wife trying to guess if some the pictured cars are (or were) owned by friends. The first black 66 with the black interior and Hurst wheels looks like one I had a chance to buy from one of the fellow WGT members in the mid 90s. It was a beautiful original low mileage triple black Tri-Power 4 speed car. At the time it had a Pontiac Chief head that started the red pinstripe from the front.

By the way, my brother-in-law still works at the Tech Center although he is furloughed until November. Just like you at the car show, great work if you can get it! Jim

mike nixon 07-29-2010 10:37 AM

Looks like a good time and a lot of nice iron showed up.

Mike

bigunde 07-29-2010 10:55 AM

Ill take the Bus please!!!!!!!

bird72 07-29-2010 02:36 PM

good photo job and looks like a high caliber of wheels..... got to love the blown Mercury...

HUMBLER 07-29-2010 02:44 PM

Great pics!


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