Pictures from GM's heyday.

[Sluggo]

Here is a pretty neat set of pictures from Life magazine of the Chevrolet assembly line in 1959.

I kind of wish they were in higher resolution, but still kind of an interesting slice of life.

Link

 

[halik]

Wow looks like they had chassis welding robots way back then... crazy!

 

[ponyo]

:thumbsup: Cool pictures. "What's good for GM is good for America." 😉

I'm :brokenheart: and 🙁 to see the current state of the Big 3.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

the auto industry, and america, at it's best.

Originally posted by: Naustica
:thumbsup: Cool pictures. "What's good for GM is good for America." 😉

I'm :brokenheart: and 🙁 to see the current state of the Big 3.

so are a lot of people, but they brought it upon themselves

 

[EvilHorace]

Very cool! I still want a '59, '60 Impala (as seen there) and always look them over at car shows.

 

[herm0016]

Originally posted by: halik
Wow looks like they had chassis welding robots way back then... crazy!

no. nothing has any intelligence. its just a machine that a person moves around and pushes buttons to make it do things. ( like spot weld or cut)

a robot has a control system that needs no human interaction to work.

 

[RU482]

wow, if that had just painted those ceilings white, those factories would have been so much brighter

 

[IcePickFreak]

Very cool pics. My mom had a 59 Impala when I was pretty small, later on she had a 70 as well.