History Life on the Assembly Line 1959

Several pages of pictures from the Tarrytown NY Chevrolet Assembly line, showing how they build 59 chevys. Not enough truck pictures for me...but I sure dig the engines...my guess is those boxcars were filled with them.

http://images.google.com/images?&hl...own+factory+source:life&&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18

have fun

 

Wow, thanks! These pictures have that "just taken yesterday" feel.

 

Thats when cars were cars. Now they just melt plastic and call it a car.

 

so fucking cool!! i love this stuff!!!

thanx a lot!!

 

Damn. So that's what metal cars looked like. Awesome pics of days we will never see again. American steel and Americans working on something they were proud of.

Thanks.

 

Very nice...thank you for taking the time to post these...

 

I like this one.

 

is this a subliminal attempt to bring attention to the plight of the Big 3? LAUGH!!!

 

Love those 348's . I didn't know they painted the exhaust manifolds....

 

That is some fine and fresh looking sheet metal!

 

Start making stuff as cool looking and forward thinking today as this was then and they might have a fighting chance. Seriously.

 

Great pictures. Too bad those panoramic shots are kind of fuzzy. They would make cool wall art.

 

Thanks for posting this. Very cool to look at.

Steve Barcak
www.pontiacheaven.org

 

that's funny! I got the link from another forum in a discussion about the current problems the big 3 are facing

 

Wow! Thanks for the cool photos!

 

thank's this was a good one

 

This looks just like the one I used to own, same color and all.

 

Thanks for posting that my uncle worked there in that time period . He had ordered a new chevy in 57 and he got to follow the car down the assembly line when it was built.

 

that is incredible..too bad they want $80 for each print... you have to get a frame ect,ect..
regardless that is stuff I love to see. just awesome!

 

I've been in that assembly plant before (they were building the old Lumina Vans from the late 80's then-yuk). Every time I visited an old Big 3 assembly plant I always thought about the history of it. It's major cool to see it here.
I remember going into the GM Wilmington Assembly Plant in Delaware and they had a 1948 Pontiac restored out near the assembly line. It had been built there in 47-48 and the line workers had restored it for display.
I was interested to see that the exhaust manifolds on the 235, 283, and 348's were all painted block color, too. Should make for some interesting conversation next time one of us wonder up on one of those 'perfect' restorations and the manifolds are grey or black, huh?

 

Did anyone but me notice the 100% male work force? Times have really changed since '59.
I'm sure that was your car Ol55, cuz I saw my black 2-door post in one of them too.

 

I was able to find the old Chevy plant in Kansas City where my 55 was built when I was driving thru in 1997. The plant had closed in the 80s and was now being subleased as industrial space, and I got to walk around in it...man, what a huge building!

 

Look at the pics of the guys painting. Not even a dust mask, let alone respirator!

Wonder how many of these old assembly line painters are still with us?

 

What I find interesting is that the plant looks exactly like the one I worked at in Baltimore Md in the late 70's right down to the wood block flooring !!

 

Great pics, saved one as wallpaper for my computer.

 

Cool pics. My Grandpa used to work at the old GM Plant in Kansas City.

 

HAHA. That's awesome... Think about how hard people are trying to find this stuff today...

 

Wow, those are pretty neat. You all might laugh, but I'd kill for those same pics, but from ford as I'm restoring one. Doesn't get much clearer on what was original and what wasn't, there! Thanks for sharing,

 

this is a cool thread. hope you guys dont get fucked outa your pensions.
hope i dont get fucked outa social security.

revolution time then baby

 

All that shiny new metal.....I'd like to order a black 'vert please