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LS1Hawk
11-19-2008, 12:16 PM
Google now has a digital archive of all the LIFE photos taken. Just searching I found a bunch of old photos taken from inside the old factory in Tarrytown, NY that closed in the mid '90s. These pictures are all of Chevys. There are no dates, but judging from the wing backs, it looks like 1959. It's something to have this glimpse of the cars taking shape that we now consider classics.

This one is my favorite:http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=d1316b982cc0f9b1&q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source:life&usg=__NB63uOuKh2wrO4VFj4VP4nTbRdc=&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchevrolet%2Btarrytown%2Bfactory%2Bsou rce:life%26start%3D60%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3 DN

The rest are here: http://images.google.com/images?q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source%3Alife
BigAls87Z28
11-19-2008, 12:27 PM
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source:life&imgurl=5a6d033f66076927

My favorite...
WildBillyT
11-19-2008, 02:37 PM
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=chevrolet+tarrytown+factory+source:life&imgurl=8bb49e99babb5b5a

Giddy up Giddy up Giddy up


Edit: Yes, I know they are probably 348s. KMA.
Iroc-z86
11-19-2008, 03:28 PM
sickkk, wish i had a 59 :( or any year impala...best friend has a red 58 impala, another has blueish 65 impala, another has a 72 impala...
twin99
11-20-2008, 08:49 AM
When I was driving thru Ohio I passed thru Lordstown plant?

That's where the original Firebirds were made and I was kind of thinking how cool that must have been to see all those muscle cars coming out of there and now it might be out of business by December :(
GrandmasterCow
11-20-2008, 09:48 AM
thats pretty neat
WildBillyT
11-20-2008, 10:38 AM
When I was driving thru Ohio I passed thru Lordstown plant?

That's where the original Firebirds were made and I was kind of thinking how cool that must have been to see all those muscle cars coming out of there and now it might be out of business by December :(

Yeah, the first gens were built there. I think after that they were moved to Norwood/Van Nuys. Shame the Norwood plant is long gone.
alamantia
11-20-2008, 10:50 AM
Awesome find, my dad used to take me there when i was a kid. Thats also where GM had their school for mechanics.
BigAls87Z28
11-21-2008, 08:28 AM
When I was driving thru Ohio I passed thru Lordstown plant?

That's where the original Firebirds were made and I was kind of thinking how cool that must have been to see all those muscle cars coming out of there and now it might be out of business by December :(

Yeah, the first gens were built there. I think after that they were moved to Norwood/Van Nuys. Shame the Norwood plant is long gone.

They had 3 plants making Fbodies? Norwood was the first Camaro plant, then they opened up Van Nuys a few years later. I didnt know about Lordstown.
WildBillyT
11-21-2008, 08:36 AM
They had 3 plants making Fbodies? Norwood was the first Camaro plant, then they opened up Van Nuys a few years later. I didnt know about Lordstown.

Inside the US: First Gen Camaros were built in Norwood and Van Nuys (LA). First gen Firebirds were built in Norwood, Van Nuys, and Lordstown.

Outside the US, Camaros were built at the Yutivo plant in the Phillipines, GM Continental (Belgium), GM Suisse in Bienne, Switzerland, and a place in Caracas, Venezuela. These were assembly plants for Camaro "kits" that were sent over. I don't think anything was really manufactured there, just assembled.