dplotkin

Mike and all-
It's colder than a well-digger's **** in New England. If you have a good internet connection and time on your hands this is more fun to watch than any wrench throwing bad joke telling bearded and tattooed moron prancing about on the V-Channel. Not a Corvette or even GM but it's sufficiently entertaining.


http://www.tvraaca.org/wishesonwheelsi.htm

Dan

K2

Amazing to see the complexity and organization of it all and no computers! Thanks for sharing the video.

hedgehead

50's assy line, hot, noisy, and dangerous. Good pay though.

woodsdesign

very cool. Thanks for posting.

67@69

One of those could have been a car my family bought new. A 1955 Savoy, solid light green, six cylinder, 3 speed column shift, radio and white walls. It became my high school car in 1960. I spent many hours studying J.C. Whitney and Honest Charley catalogs dreaming of ways to soup it up. I think I might have put a glass pack on it, but that's about it.

00fxd

Haven't seen that one before. Enjoyed it.... Thanks!

JohnZ

Those sequences were shot at the old Hamtramck and Dodge Main plants; I remember watching our GM contractors tearing down Dodge Main to make room for the new "Detroit-Hamtramck" (Poletown) plant in the early 80's, which currently produces the Volt, Bolt, and Cadillac.

tuxnharley

Thanks for posting! I particularly enjoyed the segment on machining the engine blocks and the giant broaching machine!

John BX NY

The Hamtramck plant has a cemetery out by the test track that they let the families visit once a year. A remnant of the old Poletown neighborhood..

59BlueSilver

I’ve been in aircraft manufacturing for 40 years, but automobile manufacturing amazes me! How can they keep all those details straight and go so fast. Amazing! Thanks for posting.

Mr D.

190 cars an hour, amazing!

gilbybarr

Great movie......gives a great perspective into 50s manufacturing....no robots, absence of today's PPE, little regard for ergonomic improvements.
Some rough and nasty jobs shown. The downside? Probably 90% of those individual jobs would disappear with today's robots and technology.
And the idea of "in house manufacturing" has also been changed to multiple outside suppliers. Thanks for posting.....makes you think.

dplotkin

Glad you all enjoyed that as I did. Here is a wild juxtaposition; Compare the movie I originally posted to the one below of Audi Q5 SUV production. I couldn't find a modern Plymouth line! Haw, Haw! The differences are astonishing.




Dan

W Guy

Excellent Dan. Thanks for sharing. Fisher Body in the '60s was pretty much the same.

Verne

DZAUTO

Sorry, but I liked the 1955 Plymouth line with peoples' hands on better.

dplotkin

I need no apology, I wasn't stating a preference, I wanted to point out the gaping wide difference in auto production from 1955 to 2018.


Dan

SPLITRAY

Cool Vid! Thanks

gilbybarr

WOW....that is indeed an amazing contrast....60 years between these videos. Imagine what it would be like to go back in time with this Audi video and show it to the workers of the mid 50s. Thanks for posting both videos. I assume that this Audi facility is in Mexico based on the bin markings.

dcamick

Sent along to my Facebook Friends.....Thanks for sharing!!!!

JohnZ

Huh?