[Keith Seymore]

These?

Originally Posted by robz

You could really say you new the history of your car from its build/assembly...

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.

[robz]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

These?







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!

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by robz

Love the way that guy is handling the engine with a tie on??? Must be a publicity pic...LOL!

He's probably not an hourly employee; he's likely the supervisor for that area. Evidently he is trying to (quickly) make a repair that both the operator and the repair person missed, possibly because they were not familiar with the "new" content.

Anytime you see "neckties" working on the line that means something is very wrong!

K

[robz]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

He's probably not an hourly employee; he's likely the supervisor for that area. Evidently he is trying to (quickly) make a repair that both the operator and the repair person missed, possibly because they were not familiar with the "new" content.

Anytime you see "neckties" working on the line that means something is very wrong!

K

You mean like a possible bad WS stamping???

[GT182]

I bet he's trying to get something off that engine to take home as a souvenir. Or, he's an infiltrator from the other 2 of the Big 3. Maybe even a spy from the Chevy Division LOL

[runninwild]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

He's probably not an hourly employee; he's likely the supervisor for that area. Evidently he is trying to (quickly) make a repair that both the operator and the repair person missed, possibly because they were not familiar with the "new" content.

Anytime you see "neckties" working on the line that means something is very wrong!

K

Check out the motor he is fiddling with, it has round port heads.

[My442]

I worked on the line at the Framingham GM B-O-P plant in 1972.

The plant looked exactly like the pictures shown. I believe that GM used the same design in all thier plants.

Supervisors were required to wear white shirts and ties.

All workers had to wear coveralls at every job.

The plant was noisy, hot, and somewhat dirty.

But, the smell of rubber, metal, and new paint was heavenly.....

[65FATCAT]

Looks like 72 YB tag on the engine the guy is working on, maybe, either way, that's a time slip for a union man.

[Bruce Meyer]

That might be a Y8 tag. It looks like a SD 455.