Distance from factory to current home of your wagon

The factory my wagon was built at was Oakland, CA ... approxiamately 130 miles from my house where it is currently garaged .... it sure didnt get very far from birthplace since built 52 years ago.

The cowls for the station wagons and sedan deliveries came from Akron Ohio ,,, but the wagon itself was assembled in Oakland.

I am curious what other's demographics are.

 

I'm based out of Cranford, New Jersey, which is about 15 miles out of New York City. There used to be a GM plant in Linden, the next town over, a Ford Plant in Edison, about 10 miles away and another Ford plant in Mahwah, probably about 30 miles from here. All three have been torn down in the last 20 years or so. The Mahwah plant, I've heard, was the largest manufacturing plant under one roof when it was built years ago.

 

All my wagons and my Celebrity were built at the Oklahoma City plant, from what I heard they were responsible for building some of the best quality a-bodies. My van was built at the Tarrytown NY plant, and those GM APV vans were the last things to be built there before the plant was torn down.

 

Both my Caprices were manufactured at Detroit/Clark St. Assembly within months of each other and the plant's shutdown in 1987. I live in southern New Hampshire, so the site of that facility is approximately 800 miles away.

 

My '73 Buick was built in Flint, then sold in the southern Calif district. It lived there till '96, till it was brought to Wisconsin, then bought by my buddy who lives 20 min away from where I live (NW burbs of Chicago). So she has seen a lot of America.

The '78 LTD was built I think at the St. Thomas plant. Then sold in the Chicago district, then sold to another couple in 2001. That is when the father of the couple fell in love with the Country Squire and had it shipped to Puerto Rico for a few years till he died in '06. The Country Squire was then sent back to Chicago, then sold to me in 2008.

 

My '73 Custom Cruiser was built in Lansing, Michigan and sold originally in Charleston, West Virginia, about 420 miles away. Two years ago it moved from Charleston to my location, which is about 90 miles closer to Lansing than Charleston is.

 

Mine was built in Brampton, Ontario and sold in Denver, CO. I bought it when I lived in CO and moved to TN. It is 844 miles from where I am now in TN to Brampton, but the distance including Denver is 2,731 miles.

 

Fannie was built in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada in May 1968 and shipped to yarmouth, Nova Scotia about 1421km(833mi.) where she was purchased and remained in the area until we purchased her May 2010. She then travelled closer from Yarmouth to our home in Stewiacke about 360km(227mi.) to the plant.

 

My car was built in Los Angeles, CA now it is here in New York!

 

My Caprice was built in Ypsilanti, MI and was sold new out of Newington, CT. 706 miles away. I then brought it to MA 40 miles further.

 

WRX Wagon, Ota Gunma Japan, just north of Tokyo, to just south of Atlanta.....about 9500 miles.

I Google Maps directioned it and there was about 5000 miles of kayaking across the Pacific....seriously.

 

So far it appears my wagon is the closest and yours is the farthest ..... could your Japanese Suburu have been a Tokoyo Taxi in its early life .... I remember cruising the Ginza Strip in one while in a drunken stupor back in my Army days! LOL

 

It's 132 miles from Ford's former Atlanta Assembly Plant (Hapeville,GA) to where I live, and where my '66 CSedan was delivered new.
Built on Monday, May 2, it was sold to the man who ordered it on Thursday, May 5th.

Neat thread idea wingnut!
TG

 

My 1991 Subaru Loyale VIN has a JF2 prefix, which means it is a MPV (multi purpose vehicle such as a wagon/truck/van etc.) from Subaru's Gunma, Japan plant.

Distance from where my Loyale was born in Gunma to my wagon's current home just north of Charlottesville Virginia shows 9,616 miles according to Google Maps.

This is of course "driving distance", as well as the hilarious kayak trip Rock mentioned across the Pacific ocean via Hawaii, and is probably not the shortest distance "as the crow flies".



And my latest Subaru, a 1991 Legacy, has a 4S4 VIN prefix, which means it is a MPV from Subaru's Lafayette Indiana plant.

Distance from the Lafayette plant to my Legacy's current home according to Google Maps shows a measely 627 miles.

 

Yeah, I am hearing those Subaru Wagons are real babe magnets .... and speaking of babes ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5UwvFbi5PE