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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
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I haven't said much about it here (because it's Chevy related) but I followed both my '80 pickup and my '87 pickup down the line as they were built.
For the '87, I got to the plant as it was coming down out of paint into trim; followed the body all the way through trim (on the second floor), then hopped downstairs and followed the engine build, through motor set to body drop, then followed the rest of the way down the final line.
It got written up for "low A/C charge" (it was fine but they were being nice; they wanted to hit it again to make sure it had a really good charge) and "back up lights inop". They fixed the back up lights and I bought off on the A/C charge because I didn't want them fooling with it.
I drove it off the end of the line myself and over to the shipping building. I told "Lloyd" (the supervisor in the shipping building): "hey, Lloyd, that's my truck". Left the plant at about 1 in the morning and by 5 pm that same day it was sitting in the dealership parking lot.
I won't defile this thread by posting pictures here, but you can see it new, as returned to me in March of '09, and as it sits today in my "Intro from an old Assembly Plant Guy" thread linked below. |
Yes I remember that story...I believe you mentioned it in another thread (about your truck and following thru the assembly line)...Must have been neat to see...
As for the pics, I believe they were others...maybe not you who posted them after all, but in same thread you had described your truck among other things...hopefully others will chime in with new pics...Did u just get the ones you put up from HPP or were these older? Love the way that guy is handling the engine
with a tie on??? Must be a publicity pic...LOL!