1970's AMC Assembly Line Footage

[turbine68rt]

Not the same as watching Dodge & Plymouth cars being assembled, but still interesting to see how other manufacturers did it back then.

 

[Budnicks]

that's cool to see old footage of them days
I sort of ffwrd thru it, but cool, 70's ice-arena music

 

[turbine68rt]

that's cool to see old footage of them days
I sort of ffwrd thru it, but cool, 70's ice-arena music

The wife came in the room, heard the music and thought I was watching 70's adult flicks.

 

[khryslerkid]

Did you see the bins full of Ford, Gm alternators and starters in the background?

 

[Budnicks]

The wife came in the room, heard the music and thought I was watching 70's adult flicks.

too funny

 

[QuickBpBp]

The wife came in the room, heard the music and thought I was watching 70's adult flicks.

She must have been horrified to see you cranking one off to AMC'S instead of an old adult flick!!!

 

[qkcuda]

Painting cars without a mask, and painting a red car with a black car 6 feet behind

 

[khryslerkid]

The wife came in the room, heard the music and thought I was watching 70's adult flicks.

Chick a bow, chick a bow wow!

 

[turbine68rt]

She must have been horrified to see you cranking one off to AMC'S instead of an old adult flick!!!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Assembly car lines are always cool. Too bad they didn’t show the sheet metal all going together.

 

[khryslerkid]

No respirators being worn on the paint line! I know they have a heck of a down draft system but you're still breathing paint. I like how they had a white car in between two red ones.

 

[RemCharger]

Did you see the bins full of Ford, Gm alternators and starters in the background?

Don't forget about the chrysler guys dropping off truckloads of transmissions!!

 

[khryslerkid]

Don't forget about the chrysler guys dropping off truckloads of transmissions!!

Working at a small town garage in the 70s a '68 Rebel station wagon came in for a flywheel. Hard to start, not many teeth left on it. So I raised the car up on stands in the spare bay, removed the driveshaft, removed the torque converter bolts, removed the transmission, removed the flywheel. Heated up the flywheel ring on the flywheel to remove it. Heated up the replacement ring and dropped it on. Let it cool off, reinstall everything in reverse. Good to go!

A week later what I thought was the same car pulls into the shop. Turns out this was a different car, same year, same color, same engine, with the exact same problem, hard to start with lots of teeth missing from the flywheel.

The boss says you know what to do! So I set this car up on stands, slide under it on my creeper, take a look underneath and it's a totally different set up. This car has coil springs with swing arms and an enclosed driveshaft. I had to drop the entire rear assembly and roll it back. Remove the torque converter bolts, remove the transmission. This flywheel ring and flywheel is welded to the torque converter so a new torque converter had to be used. Three times the amount in parts and labor that the first AMC we did took. Worst part was the boss quoted this customer what the first one cost thinking it was going to be the same.

AMCs are like a Box of Chocolates...

 

[64BEL]

Fun video from the good old days in Kenosha - thanks.

Assembly car lines are always cool. Too bad they didn’t show the sheet metal all going together.

Here's the 2022 Jeep grand Cherokee L line from Detroit that shows some of the body being assembled. We bought a red '22 identical to the one half way into the video.

 

[GrabberOrange69]

Painting cars without a mask, and painting a red car with a black car 6 feet behind

I know! Couldn’t believe it…

 

[Hey-O]

I saw that on a daily basis, as a of matter, the first robot we got in the entire plant was the one that applied the urethane adhesive on the glass. Believe it or not, at one point it was one of the highest warranty problems in the plant. It wasn't bad till the operator who did the job was absent. The absentee worker couldn't get the bead right causing water and most of all, crazy wind noise. That was the foot in the door to 849 robots by the time our plant closed. One of my last jobs was shipping those robot to other plants through out the world. I had many jobs and making sure every operator had everything to facilitate his work station was a daily thing. We had about 900 on line job stations in the plant.
The first few weeks when I started working there, I spent countless hours just watching and just being fascinated by the sheer wonder of pulling thousands of parts out of bins and it rolling out the door at the end of the day.

 

[turbine68rt]

Assembly car lines are always cool. Too bad they didn’t show the sheet metal all going together.

here you go...

 

[Budnicks]

if they were so rust proof/resistance ?
(5-year rust thru warranty, why not more ? )
why are so little #s of them on the road today ?
even out west here, you rarely ever see any

we don't & haven't used salt on our roads for 5 decades

don't get me wrong, for the smog years of the mid 70's
still a cool video,
even with "all the exaggerations", sales pitches, parts bin cars

if they were all that, they'd still be 'an AMC'
or maybe even Ramblers, or Packards/Studebakers
Chrysler wouldn't have had to buy them, just to keep them solvent

Mitten's dad was the Pres. of AMC too
another nail in that proverbial coffin

I own a formerly owned by Rambler/AMC corp. vehicle,
I own a Jeep Gladiator Launch/1st Limited Edition 'Rubicon' (de-badged)
& I've owned/had many other AMC/Jeep or Kaiser/Jeeps too

IIRC my buddies Gremlin 71 (?) way back in 1977,
it was a rustbucket in 6 years
even in California, in an area not close to the ocean
or much inclement weather at all, 45+ miles inland East Bay, suburb Concord Ca.
he put a 383 4bbl from a 70 'cuda/727tf & narrowed 8.75" in it
'it was a hoot'