VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Now that is interesting. I wouldn't have expected Buicks and Pontiacs being built on the same production line. Or if not on the same line, in the same building.
Said it before, I love production line shots after 44 years in the motor industry.
Mart.

 

Back in '59, most Buicks were built in Flint MI, most Pontiacs in Pontiac MI. I lived about 5 miles from the GM Proving Grounds near Milford Michigan and this photo might have been taken there or at the GM Technical Center in Sterling Heights Michigan. I worked across the road from the Tech Center in later years. There were hundreds of cars & trucks at both facilities.

 

It also said Oldsmobiles were built there to

 

One of my all time favorite movies. Never caught the Merc before though.

 

Looks like the Gammel Coupe

 

Oldsmobile Limited or Autocrat around 1910. Bob

 

The body lines do not match at all!

 

Safford Gaide



Shark fins ????



Sleeper Too

 

Does anyone know what became of this car and/or who won it?

 

Sold in France , 2014
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...l-air-up-for-auction-photo-gallery-74933.html

 

Clint Eastwood

 

Johnathan Winters

 

We all know this is Al Gore driving

 

Flint was of course Buick-only in this era (the 'home plant'). Buick-Olds-Pontiac plants were Linden, Kansas City, Wilmington, Atlanta, Framingham, & Arlington. The production line pic was from one of those 6. But Flint wasn't the busiest- according to an August '58 Buick production log, Linden was #1, Atl #2, KC #3, then Flint. The other 4 were basically tied for 5th, about 25% slower than Flint. Linden was running about 225% above Flint.