AMC Assembly plant video - Installing vinyl roof, etc

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An interesting video of the Gremlin / Hornet assembly plant around 1975. At 14 minutes in, they're installing a vinyl roof. Apparently, that was a very time-consuming process.
 
An interesting video of the Gremlin / Hornet assembly plant around 1975. At 14 minutes in, they're installing a vinyl roof. Apparently, that was a very time-consuming process.


Still can't get over the painters not shaving any breathing protection...
 
This film fully explains the rise of Toyota and Honda in the 70s.....
I toured the Ford plant in St Paul as part of an auto shop high school class in this same era 1973-74.

I remember the shop teacher telling us that if you want a job with decent pay, and a pension and don't mind putting a nut on a shock absorber for the next 30-35 years then this is the job for you.
 
I toured the Ford plant in St Paul as part of an auto shop high school class in this same era 1973-74.

I remember the shop teacher telling us that if you want a job with decent pay, and a pension and don't mind putting a nut on a shock absorber for the next 30-35 years then this is the job for you.

I've putting nuts on shock absorbers for the past 40 years, averaging about 1 every 8 years.... :D
 
I toured a GM plant in Baltimore in 1978 or so. After that, I rushed home and started studying even harder for my engineering degree! :wideyed:
 
Worked at Dodge Main during summer breaks from college.
Most mind-numbing job I've ever had. And summer help worked a different job each day filling in for absentees.
The only position that was not boring was driving cars off end of line to shipping prep outside. The ones that wouldn't start made it interesting.
 
Wow, how times have changed. No safety equipment for the workers. No safety goggles, people wearing street clothes on the line, I'm sure no safety shoes. Smoking on the workroom floor. The amazing part to me is watching how people really had to work in those factories back then, no robotics! Placing the glass, body panels manually. Hand spraying the paint with no protection at all. A red car being sprayed, while a green car is sprayed within a few feet of it on the same line. Can you imagine today's millennial spoiled brats having to work like this? They could never use both hands to work, one hand would have to hold their phone to take selfies to show how "hard" they have it on Instagram or Snapchat.
 
Here's a plant making something that may be more familiar to this group:
 
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