Topic: St Louis Assembly Plant Pics - Do you see your car
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Cool insight Mike. Thanks.
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Vette(s): 1980 all org. with 18000 act. miles dk claret with matching interior..Eagle alloys ..loaded..excellent cond.
Look's like 81 or 82 vintage. Two-tone wasn't offered in 1980. Can't imagine what it would have been like to drive off in one of those and having the new car smell.
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Very cool.
Hey, where can I get some of these nose bumpers? I could use them!
It is a shame the plant couldn't be preserved as a historial building and kept open as a museum for tours. I suppose the large property is worth more as something else, though.
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[QUOTE=maintenance4]Look's like 81 or 82 vintage. Two-tone wasn't offered in 1980.[/QUOTE]
Can't be an '82, they were all assembled in Bowling Green. Some 1981's were also assembled in Bowling Green, starting in June or July, 1981.
Pictures could have been taken by a security guard, or anyone else that had permission to be in there when the line was down. Maintenance person or maybe a manager that knew everything was moving to BG is six months.
I wonder if I had one of those miniature video spy cameras if I could get a video of the BG line. That would be cool. Of course, I don't know if they allow you to watch private videos in jail.
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[QUOTE=Adam Wartell]
Hey, where can I get some of these nose bumpers? I could use them!
[/QUOTE]They look like cardboard. Can you read the part number?
I'll sell you one for $50. It fits an '82, so it might fit your '79.
But I have to warn you, they don't work well on the Interstate.
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The Frame Stencil in Picture 18 looks to be in an odd Spot so far forward on the Frame. I thought it should be further back. Dose anybody have two Tone A Arms Painted like Picture 19 ? I agree that it looks to be 81 Production as all the Engines have Black Valve Covers and no FI. I never knew there was even a concideration that there was a 2 Tone Car built in the Old Plant. So that would mean that it is a Two Tone Lacker Car and not Two Tone Clearcoat?? Richard........
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Vette(s): 1980 all org. with 18000 act. miles dk claret with matching interior..Eagle alloys ..loaded..excellent cond.
Look's like they forgot to put on the center caps on the wheels. pic #24 (oop's, forgot they were dealer installed)
Frame stencil clearly reads 12-8-80. Frames were stockpiled at St. Louis, but they did not stay around long. This is 1981 model year production at St. Louis, some time after December 8.
All the St. Louis cars were lacquer. All the Bowling Green cars were (still are) enamel (BC/CC).
[QUOTE=dwright]So Mike, did you work at the plant?[/QUOTE]
Nope. Never worked for GM. I'm just a run-of-the-mill Corvette buff like the rest of the bunch. I've been interested in, and fooling with, Corvettes for a long time.
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