Vintage automobile factories

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    upload_2024-10-21_20-1-2.png The last Mercury Bobcat to roll of the line at the St Thomas plant on August 9,1980
     
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    upload_2024-10-21_20-41-42.png Due to the longest strike in GM history at the Norwood assembly plant, unfinished cars couldn’t meet the new 1973 crash standards. Rather than update them, GM decided it was cheaper to crush them. A few survived, donated to trade schools, but the ultimate humiliation? The crusher ran on a Ford 6-cylinder engine!
     
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    OrthmannJ Always looking for old ford crew cabs

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    Dang.
     
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    Studebaker

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    The Packard final assembly line at E Grand being disassembled, immediately after the last '54 goes down the line, to be transplanted at Conner

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    Really like those 1-Ton Wheels on those trucks.
     
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    Noticing how military jeeps got independent front suspensions, while postal vehicles still had front-mounted leaf springs

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