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Old 06-18-2010, 09:21 AM
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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!

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Old 06-18-2010, 01:13 PM
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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!

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You mean like a possible bad WS stamping???

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Old 06-18-2010, 07:16 PM
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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

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Old 06-19-2010, 01:12 AM
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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!

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

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Old 06-19-2010, 08:09 AM
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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.....

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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.

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

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The paper tucked into the lift has 1973 and Y8 on it...

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The paper tucked into the lift has 1973 and Y8 on it...
and the SPECIAL tag on the flywheel/ring gear...

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