Many old buddies are long passed away but there are quite a few still kicking out there. I talk with quite a few of the old guys still. Yes they are up in age. I hired in at 18 and I was a kid compared to the guys working there. I am still working GM plants with 51 years in now. Most of the guys I worked with had worked there since the 50's & early 60's. St Louis was a very large plant. They made many different products there besides the Vette, there was 10,000 people working there. Corvette was not even made in the main plant but in a small building behind the main plant. Long been torn down. At one time they made the wooden car wheels used in the 1st Chevrolet cars made there before the Vette. I spent close to 20 years working on Corvette from 1968 until 1987 when I left for Detroit central office with Cadillac and remember quite a bit. At Corvette I worked 58 scheduled hours a week ( 10 hrs plus 8 on Sat) plus additional OT as required. Line ran around 5 cars per hour. When you spend that much time at work for years things are ingrained into your brain. Like riding a bike, you never forget. Stories, yes many, some will go to the grave. Can you imagine daily people things that went on in a plant. It was not luxury to say the least. Summer in Mo, not uncommon to be 100 deg in the plant with high humidity. My 1st job day one was driving the cars off the line and testing. Beyond popular belief as a new hire no one else wanted to do that job. Starting a new engine for the 1st time, lots of noise, lots of smoke from burning oil. Exhaust in a small plant from a first start 427, 3 deuces usually not adjusted right, heat, many with no exhaust hooked up driving up to 70+ mph on test equip. Oh yes no interior in the vehicles yet. Sitting on a small box. Got the picture. Besides driving I also performed the vehicle alignment and the water test. Didn't take long for me to become a Quality supervisor in the plant. Supervised the total quality inspectors from bird cage, body shop all the way thru the plant to shipping on trucks and trains. Back to the old guys, yes knew all the names of the guys listed by another person here but there were obviously many more. In fact I spend quite a lot of time talking to Corvette enthusiasts at the National Corvette Museum. Type my full name into google looking for 1969 ZL1 video or the 1983 Corvette museum you tube video. You can see me talk. So I could go on for hours with stories from special builds, celebrity cars, astronaut cars, race team cars, COPO cars, FBI inquires, goes on and on etc. Just too much to type here.