I've gotten all of these images via email about ten times this week, so I figured I had better fold and feature them here. Essentially, it's a hodgepodge of factory released imagery and assembly line photos - all of which are pretty damned cool. In f... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
did anyone else notice the orange chevy engines even had their exhaust manifolds painted orange????? did they just paint over them afterwards??
The guys painting cars was almost scary. "Honey, I am home. Boy, I have a heck of a headache today..." Anyone have an info on how much of a per cent labor represented between a T, '59 Biscayne and a 2016 Camero? Cars got complicated as they evolved, but lines have gotten more efficient. Is there is a static baseline? Would also be interesting to compare that ratio to the value of my time black hole.
........No kidding! I remember touring the GM assembly plant in Baltimore in the mid-sixties as a shop class field trip. They were building all of the GM intermediates there at the time. In the paint booth as bodies were being sprayed with guns by humans, water was being pumped under a metal grid floor creating a downdraft that pulled the overspray out into I'm sure the Patapsco River! It was like a river running under the floor. My how times have changed.
.......That is a curious photo. Different makes of Woodies apparently on a military installation somewhere. Almost like a Woodies only gathering. Wish we knew more about this shot.
"Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" (My Dad) Mine too..... ........No kidding! I remember touring the GM assembly plant in Baltimore in the mid-sixties as a shop class field trip. They were building all of the GM intermediates there at the time. In the paint booth as bodies were being sprayed with guns by humans, water was being pumped under a metal grid floor creating a downdraft that pulled the overspray out into I'm sure the Patapsco River! It was like a river running under the floor. My how times have changed. When I was MUCH younger a shop I worked at used a booth with a "wall of water" that flowed into a large trough. Guess where that emptied? We dumped the solvents into the storm drain next to the railroad track.....
Awesome stuff.. Would be nice if you did a "mail call" too. I look at the old ones every once in a while.
Those must have been some amazing times. Those guys worked harder I can imagine but man did they accomplish some great things.
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