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Really cool links, Thanks for posting!

Mine too!!

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Heres a pic I found on the net of the Van Nuys, Ca plant that they built Camaros at back in the day

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Oh yeah heres a link to the page it has more assembly pics too
http://stevescamaroparts.blogspot.co...1_archive.html

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My '72 GMC K2500 is a Freemont baby,as were the other two '72 K/20s owned when I had a trio.

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The 69'er is a Fremont truck.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8361/8...d408e2b8_b.jpg

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Here's some history of the fremont plant. GM and TOYOTA joint venture from 1984 to 2010. Now produces the Tesla electric electric auto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

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That VW ain't that big of a deal if you look in one of the pictures there's like a 55 or 56 ford pickup.... That guy was crazy! He probably was just there garbage guy haha
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To my knowledge, Tesla has not made a dime of profit yet.

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It's too bad there aren't any photos of the empty Fremont parking lot on Saturday mornings: There were so many beer cans and bottles left out there from the Friday shift you could barely walk through it. Good old days.

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What I like is people couldn't park any better back then :lol:

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Do you have any you Fremont built truck guys have unique chalk marks under the hood that indicate a specific inspector or?
I was wondering about that because I do have a rather odd chalk mark on mine that I think was made to indicate the inspector.
Coley:chevy:

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Sorry about the (previous) phrasing in my prior post guys...I got a phone call right as I was finishing up the posting and it screwed up my thought line.
The question above is hopefully a little more clear and complete.

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Coley, Here are a couple of threads that will shed some light. Most if not all trucks and cars had these grease pencil marks on them when they left the factory.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=443786
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ctory+markings

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For the first year full year of truck production in 1964, Fremont was H code. Went to Z code for 1965 and later trucks. Funny, I spend time on the 60-66 forums, but I have never seen anyone post a photo a stock base model '64 panel like the photo in the link (photo of green panel with olds and buick). Thanks agian SS Tim for history lesson.

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Thats awesome, thats where my truck was built. Thanks for sharing.

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Chevy built trucks at Van Nuys until sometime around 1962. I have a friend with a '55 second series, and it was built at Van Nuys. Van Nuys built Chevy trucks only, but when Fremont opened, it built Chevy's and GMC's. My '67 is a Fremont truck. Van Nuys was a Chevrolet plant, Fremont was B-O-P (Buick, Olds, Pontiac), even though a lot of Chevy A-bodies were built there. That was before GMAD!

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Notice how big the spaces were back then? Boy,they sure shrunk those down since back then. No wonder so many door dings!

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Someone who's recently divorced and has none left :waah:

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I was noticing the same thing. They look to be 1 1/2 times bigger back then.

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I know this post is old so forgive the resurrection but I got to thinking and I really still think about the assembly plants and how many guys/gals are left who worked on the lines.

I have been to the Fremont plant on a number of times and it really is quite impressive.

Question is: is there anybody on this site who worked Fremont from 67-72? If not then I'm thinking about trying to go through the heritage site to see if they'll give up some names??? I doubt it privacy and all but...

BTW thats 600 trucks in a 24 hour day, 218,400 trucks a year...

enjoy the pics because all that farm land is now concrete...

cheers
Nim

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That's where my '67 was built! Recently got these plates for it, my Vin is Z147***

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I have never been to Fremont; I started in Flint in 1979 as a GMI student, so we worked in all areas of the plant (inspection, production, plant engineering, labor relations, etc). After I graduated from GMI I was a production supervisor on Line 1 (pickup), Fender set area. I had 27 or so productive operations and about 37 hourly employees to accomplish that.

We built 60 pickups per hour on Line 1 and 36 Blazer/Suburbans per hour on Line 2.

Since then I have been in Engineering/Assembly and Engineering (product design and development).

I have launched new product and supported current production in Flint, Oshawa, St Louis, Janesville, Pontiac, Arlington, Silao, Ft Wayne, Mishawaka and Wentzville (all in support of LD truck) and Detroit-Hamtramck (Chevy Volt and derivatives).

K

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Here is some information from a commemorative booklet, recognizing the Fremont opening and start of production:

http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...d.php?t=613869

K

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My 72 was built there as well. Got to go on a tour of the facility recently and see Tesla's being built.....pretty incredible. Tesla is only using a fraction of the facility.