Check out this link of GM's assembly line...

Pretty cool photos that can probably help better understand how GM built their cars
http://images.google.com/images?q=ch...+source%3Alife

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 396 4spd IPC:
Check out this link of GM's assembly line...

Pretty cool photos that can probably help better understand how GM built their cars
http://images.google.com/images?q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source%3Alife

Looks to be around 1959. Pretty consistant with what is known about Camaro Assembly.

Constant you see here is PAPER/DOCUMENTS on each part from the tub to the axle assembly.

That first picture with the rear end and front frame assembies shows just how old the assembly plant was. Notice the worn out BRICK floor on the left of the photo. Great photos Phil!

I think the machine in the background of the axle assembly picture is a air wrench that screws all four spring bracket "T" bolts down at the same time!
I love the pics of the engines and what looks like they are picked up ice tongs style from the exhaust manifolds! am I seeing that right! sure would explain why our 350's didn't come through with pull tabs on the intake

Awesome pix by the way.. I'm fascinated!

Hows about those train box cars right inside the warm building LOADED with motors.. No wonder my April car had a Dec 66 casting! madness

Those are probably not bricks. What they use in many GM plants on the floor,(especially in high traffic areas) is blocks of wood set in the floor with the end grain up. It wears like iron and is better for you healthwise than cement or bricks would be.

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Originally posted by festival:
Constant you see here is PAPER/DOCUMENTS on each part from the tub to the axle assembly.

Hey Phil,
Cool photo's!
I noticed not only is there paper documentation on the tub, but there is also a cowl tag already riveted on the tub too while it is being assembled!
Also, by the indentation of the phone shape in the door jamb make these early Camaro bodies. Wouldn't be something to know the VIN or body number of the shell in the photo and find out that the Camaro in the photo is yours?

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So its obvious this piece of paper is an essential part of the organisation of the plant. If so why is it that it looks like the piece of paper is just tacked onto the front end , rear end , body etc etc? How was this fastened and why wasnt it attached in some sort of sleeve or attaching wire? Was it just paper thick or heavier type of thin cardboard? Was there multiple copies attached on each item? Man I sure would like to have seen how it all came together in there

Orlando Thanks for sharing those pics with us. Its amazing the information here for us sickos. Its obviously a professional photographer who took these for or permitted by GM. We know there are some of the 67 plants when the Camaros were being built so where are the rest of them?? GM or magazines such as Time etc etc must have them somewhere. Imagine the info we could uncover if we found the pics? Especially the little details due to the colour photos. To date I dont think I have ever seen a camaro assembly line photo in colour yet..

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Originally posted by Geoff Smith:
Orlando Thanks for sharing those pics with us. Its amazing the information here for us sickos. Its obviously a professional photographer who took these for or permitted by GM. We know there are some of the 67 plants when the Camaros were being built so where are the rest of them?? GM or magazines such as Time etc etc must have them somewhere. Imagine the info we could uncover if we found the pics? Especially the little details due to the colour photos. To date I dont think I have ever seen a camaro assembly line photo in colour yet..

GM's in-house operation (GM Photographic) took all the GM in-plant photos, and they worked exclusively in black & white until the mid-70's. That operation was disbanded and outsourced in the early 90's, then brought back in-house as the GM Media Archives about eight years ago. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of images/negatives were lost between the two transfers, including the 60's Corvette and Camaro plant photos. I do a lot of work with the GM Media Archives as part of my job as Technical Editor of "Corvette Enthusiast" magazine.

The paper you see on that photo of the Norwood chassis line are Chevrolet Chassis Broadcast sheets, and they're stuck on with ordinary masking tape. The paper on the firewall of the Camaro body at Van Nuys during roof load is the Fisher Body "Run Sheet", which identified the body and its options.

John,

Thanks for clearing that up. Anything else you can recall??

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The paper on the firewall of the Camaro body at Van Nuys during roof load is the Fisher Body "Run Sheet", which identified the body and its options.

I noticed the lack of any white spray paint on the cowl tag of this car in the Fisher plant.

This is one of the B&W's I have and found kinda cool.