Some great shots from the original early 60's Life magazine article of the TARRYTOWN PLANT (http://images.google.com/images?q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source:life)!

No Camaro, but VERY cool.

Ed

Wow, Ed, Pretty neat!

cool pix.

I thought Christine might be in there.
No, she was a Plymouth right?

John (Hinckley) pointed out to me that Life magazine just released a TON of pictures from their archives, and these are just a drop in the bucket of all the pictures they've taken over the last 100 or so years.

They're being hosted by GOOGLE (http://images.google.com/hosted/life), so check it out. You can probably spend days in there just poking around!

Ed

Fully painted exhaust manifolds. That is surprising. I bet there was a little stink and smoke when the motor was started.

The fully painted or oversprayed exhaust manifolds means the engines came from the Tonowanda plant. Flint put the exhaust manifolds on after paint. At least in the Camaro Era.

Another tidbit from JohnZ.

Hey, some neat pic's for sure.... Thanks for sharing!
:beers:

As an American history buff, and car buff, I love those pics. I wonder how many of those cars are now making weekend appearances at car shows? I've mentioned it before, but it's funny how we desperatly want to find the build sheet, or question every
marking on a trim tag or partial vin #... "does it look right?" "Why is the stamp crooked... may be a re-stamp". All these guys wanted to do is move the car down the line, go to lunch, then suffer through the rest of the day and go home. if a stamp wasn't just right, they didn't care. They didn't know 40 years later stuff like that would be argued and fought over by guys like us!

Did all those cars have to be wet sanded before paint???

Yes, every single one of them.

Great pics - enjoyed looking through them - thanks!

do i ever wonder what the assambly line looked like , the answer is NO.i worked at tarrytown through most of the 80s and it was no picknick. i can recognize some of those places in the plant. i worked in the bodyshop. im in the flannel cutoff mig welding the back door http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh155/stinsonz/PictureorVideo008.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh155/stinsonz/PictureorVideo007.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh155/stinsonz/PictureorVideo005-1.jpg