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Performance Years April 2012
CHALLENGING NEW CONTEST:
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Performace Years has just started a new contest on the PY Forums. To enter, you'll need to use your own Pontiac knowledge to identify missing parts and PY product resources to look up their PY part number.

We will be collecting entries until Noon on Monday, May 7th. At that time, the winners will be drawn from members who submitted the correct answers.

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MADE IN PONTIAC:
An Interview, Part 2
Written by Eric White,
Wild About Cars Pontiac Brand Manager


Read Part 1

The assembly process continued: the body drop

Carl Papke: ...After they put the body on, the first thing that would happen was the radiator support went on. The inner fender wells would go on before the fenders. Then the fenders would go on. There was another assembly line that come in that carried the grilles.

Wild About Cars: The grilles and the header panel were all pre-assembled?

Carl Papke: Yea, on a separate line, off to the side. The radiator was already in the core support itself. That just had two big bolts that come through the frame on rubber cushions, and that was the first thing they put on. It just set on there and kind of flopped back and forth. Everything else went in. The fender wells came in and the fenders went on. They had a system, and it went together amazingly quick. Once everybody knew their job and this assembly line was rolling, we were putting out 80 cars per hour. Up on the radiator line, which was on the second floor, they would... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE


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FORMULA STEERING WHEEL
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1968-81 FIREBIRD REAR LEAF SPRING TO AXLE HARDWARE KIT
Part#: GFU130
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1966-67 GTO CONVERTIBLE TOP LATCH - LH
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