1st genertion Camaro
http://home.townisp.com/~markcanning/camaro/assembly.jpg

Nice picture, Mike! :cool:

Al

Interesting!
Any more to post?
I assume those are build sheets on the firewalls?
General Motors Oshawa is a customer of mine, and I have been through assembly line a few times. It is pretty amazing how they can bang together a car as quick as they do, although there is a lot more computer/robot help these days then in this picture's era.

Dunc

I just patched in a link, found this at this site (http://www.camaros.net/forum/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=25;t=000024)

My new 2004 GMC E. cab was built in Oshawa and I was thru the Corvette plant in Bowling Green (2002).

Hi Guys,

I was lucky enough in Sept '95 to tour both the car and truck assembly plants in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Quite the experience really enjoyed the tours.

You can contact GM of Canada to get on a tour of the car assembly plant, they used to hold two tours during the day. One started around 9:00 or 9:30 AM and lasted till around lunch time. Second tour started around noon and ended around 13:30 or 14:00 as best as I remember. Only wished later I had signed up for both of the car plant tours that day I was there.

This is the same plant that built all the Canadian Chevelles from 1964 to 1981 inclusive. As well as their sister car the Canadian Pontiac Beaumonts from 1962 to 1969. The whole time I was watching '95 Luminas, Monte Carlos and Buick Regals and Regal Grand Sports going by I was envisioning '72 Chevelles going by. The year of Chevelle that I own. Oshawa Car Plant #1 has been in continous operation building cars for fifty years this year at its present site.

I toured the car plant wearing my Chevelle club T-shirt which got some thumbs up and "Hey I remember those cars" from a few of the more experienced workers in the plant.

I and was able to determine most of the options being installed in then '95 Chevrolet Luminas, Monte Carlos and Buick Regals and Regal Grand Sports by reading the codes off the build sheets on the drivers side front fender. Even got to talk to a couple of assembly line workers when the tram stopped by the interior installation station and later at the drive-line marrage stations.

The assembly line workers I talked to were surprised I could determine the optional equipment either installed or to be installed on the cars later by the codes on the build sheets.

I had always wanted to tour the Oshawa car plant since hearing the story of my father doing the same thing back in the '50s.

Hope to do the same thing again this Sept.