66jack

I thought it was interesting:

59BlueSilver

That was cool! Thanks for submitting.

Frankie the Fink

Wow - OSHA would have shut down most of those factories in about 20 seconds...

firstgear

Nice! Fisher married a woman by the name Titus. They were out of Norwalk, Ohio. There are many references in town to Body By Fisher. The hospital Sharon works out of is known as Fisher Titus Medical Center.....they had given a boat load of money and the land it sits on today with its campus to the hospital years ago and hence the name. And now you know the rest of the story!

SS409

I haven't seen this one. Thanks for sharing Jack.....

Mako6

Excellent..! I really like these dated and (frankly) dorky videos. They're great..!

Mak

SpartyGW

I enjoyed that a lot. What year was it?

I wish I would've lived in the 50s...looks like such a pleasant era.

Randy G.

Yea, but then you would be old like the rest of us.

Low Rider

The newer cars in the video are 1951s..........

sub006

A cool piece of history. The "safety of steel" in 1951 cracked me up. AIR most cars had steel DASHBOARDS and RIGID steering columns, but "safety belts" were DANGEROUS.

BTW anybody know the last year those "Body by Fisher" sill plates were installed on the assembly line?

JohnZ

Probably late 80's - Fisher Body Division was eliminated in the (in)famous Roger Smith GM reorganization in late 1984.

Nowhere Man

The 88 G-body's Monte Carlo's, ect had them

gilbybarr

Great video...thanks for posting....actually showed some of the production methods/structures in the way GM built my '51 Chevy.

SpartyGW

So here's a question I have...who was the intended audience for this video?

Was this a an advertisement for GM? Maybe for something like the NAIAS?

JohnZ

I expect that it was made for the benefit of the dealers as a sales tool, to better inform salesmen about the product. Remember that in 1951 there was no such thing as a video, sound film projectors and screens were ungainly and expensive, and very few homes had TV, which in those days had 9" b&w screens and there was no programming that would show such a film.