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Originally Posted by MikeNoun
What the heck are they doing to this Chevy? 
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Yep - they are setting the front end on the chassis via "buck build".
Some plants did it as shown (the LIFE magazine Tarrytown photos show a buck build front end); some plants did "piecemeal".
In fact: sometimes it varied within the same plant.
When I was at Flint the Line 2 vehicles (Suburban and Blazer) were buck built; Line 1 (pickup) was piecemeal. Essentially the same architecture in the same plant - two different processes.
My first "real job" out of GMI was running the Line 1 Fender set area (2nd shift).
K
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