In what plant was our trucks produced and dealer city they were sold from.

[blackdawg]

I thought this would be a interesting thread :I have a 1966 truck built in freemont california. i purchased the truck last year in tacoma washington.I thought it would be interesting for members to post where plant there truck was built and the dealer and city it was orginally sold from.anybody have any info on where mine would have went when it left the plant.If anybody has any history on where the plants distributed there vehicles please add it.

[markeb01]

Our truck was built at the Oakland GMC plant, and was originally sold through Kimball Motors Company in San Luis Obispo (central) California on 23 July 1960.

Other than a paper trail from the original buyer (which we were fortunate enough to receive with our truck), I’m unaware of any method to track where a truck went after it left the factory. The list of manufacturing plants can however be found on the Jolly GMC site:

http://www.6066gmcguy.org/VinNumber.htm

[oem4me]

I'd love to see a breakdown of what plants were used for which trucks, and also distribution regions for each plant. My '66 was built at Fremont, and shipped to Enumclaw, WA. It actually states the destination dealership on the lower left of the build sheet.

[pdxhall]

Mine was also a Fremont, Ca. built truck and went to Carr Chevrolet in Beaverton, OR. I bought it from the original owner's son, so it's been an Oregon truck since it was new

[vin63]

My '63 C-10, just like my '63 Chevy II SS, was built in the Oakland, Calif. plant. I don't know which dealer the truck was shipped to.

[chevy_man5]

On my '60 the VIN says Pontiac, Michigan. The story I got about the history of the truck was that it was bought in Nampa, Idaho at Edmark Chevrolet for use by the City of McCall, Idaho as a snow plow truck.

Blondie_K's '65 truck was built in Freemont, CA, and according to the build sheet behind the seat was also sold from Edmark Chevrolet in Nampa, Idaho.

At one point I had my '60, her '65, a '97 K1500, a '99 K2500, and a '05 Impala all from Edmark in my driveway. Now with the pending divorce, I am down to just the '60, and the '97.

[bo-w]

my 66 sb fleet was built in oakland and originally bought in ukiah Ca, then bought by by the previous owner near ukiah before i purchased it in redwood valley Ca in august. our 61 burb was built in oakland and first purchased Alaska , then in NewMexico . then again in NewMexico before being purchased by myself for my wife here in sac. so we are the 4th owner of the burb and 3rd owner of the pickup. The gentleman i got the truck from's wife learned to drive in my pu and it was difficult for him to see it go . honestly i wouldn't be surprised if sac is the farthest from its original home as its ever been lol

['63GENIII]

I just learned that my '63 was from the Oakland plant just 30 min. from here. Flew up to Tangent Oregon to pick it up. Guess they ended up all over.

[jonzcustomshop]

my 63 k20 was produced in st lois, and sold outside of slc utah....
I had a 65 that was produced in janesville, and sold in ronan, mt

[Rich 5150 69]

Fremont truck sold in Sacramento.

[Bears63]

My ol' '63 C10 parts truck was built in Janesville, WI and sold at a dealership in Scotland, SD. My '63 C20 was also built in Janesville, WI and sold at Lowell Lust Chevrolet in Aberdeen, SD. That dealership is now Stephen Lust Chevrolet.

[SFTorange]

My truck was built in Fremont, CA and purchased new in Belgrade, MT.



On a side note, those of us with Fremont trucks might find this excerpt from an episode of "This American Life" interesting about life at the Fremont plant in the '60's.

This is just one guy's opinion, so I'd recommend taking it as such.

You can find the whole transcript for the show (about GM's experiment of transforming the GM Fremont plant into NUMMI in conjunction with Toyota) here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...403/transcript



Frank Langfitt
Again, that's Jeffrey Liker, who's interviewed workers and management at Fremont for his research.

Jeffrey Liker
One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in the GM plant in Fremont. If you want sex, if you want drugs, if you want alcohol, it's there. During breaks, during lunch time, if you want to gamble illegally-- any illegal activity was available for the asking within that plant.

Frank Langfitt
Sounds like prison.

Jeffrey Liker
Actually the analogy to prison is a good analogy. Because the workers were stuck there, because they could not find anything close to that level of job, and pay, and benefits, at their level of education and skill. So they were trapped there. And they also felt like, we have a job for life, and the union will always protect us. So we're stuck here, and it's long term, and then all these illegal things crop up so we can entertain ourselves while we're stuck here.

Rick Madrid
A lot of booze on the line. I mean, it was just amazing-- and as long as you did your job, they really didn't care.

Frank Langfitt
What kind of booze, what were people drinking?

Rick Madrid
Whiskey, gin.

Frank Langfitt
That's Rick Madrid. He began working at the plant in 1955. He mounted tires on Chevy trucks.

Rick Madrid
When I was mounting tires, we'd drink. You know, I'd bring a thermos of screwdrivers with me. But I never was into drugs.

Frank Langfitt
Sex?

Rick Madrid
Love it.

Frank Langfitt
Did you ever have sex at the plant?

Rick Madrid
Yeah.

Frank Langfitt
Frequently?

Rick Madrid
I wasn't that fortunate.

Peter Ross
There was a guy in there, he would be selling the pot.

Frank Langfitt
Peter Ross repaired machinery on the assembly line at GM.

Peter Ross
I'd be walking through the plant with my tools and my radio. You see a big cloud of smoke, you don't want to inhale it, you'd get a contact high.

Frank Langfitt
If you're wondering how people kept their jobs, well, back then the UAW was still quite powerful. Under the union contract, it was almost impossible to fire anybody, and if management ticked off the union, workers could just shut the plant down in minutes.

With that sort of leverage, absenteeism became absurd. On a normal day, one out of five workers just didn't show up. It was even worse on Mondays. Billy Haggerty worked in hood and fender assembly. He says so few workers showed up some mornings, management couldn't start the line.

Billy Haggerty
They brought a lot of people off the street to fill in when they didn't have enough people.

Frank Langfitt
Who would they find?

Billy Haggerty
Right across the street to the bar and grab people out of there and bring them in.

Frank Langfitt
Workers filed grievances-- formal complaints against management-- over all kinds of things. Someone who isn't your boss asks you to clean something up? Hit him with a grievance. A manager steps in to do a job that isn't his? Grievance. The strategy was simple. Pile up grievances real or imagined by the thousands, then use them to squeeze money or concessions out of management.

And Fremont workers struck back at their bosses in other ways. They'd intentionally screw up the vehicles. Put coke bottles or loose bolts inside the door panels so they'd rattle and annoy the customer. They'd scratch cars. Richard Aguilar inspected vehicles at the plant. He saw one guy do something even worse.

Richard Aguilar
He left some loose bolts on the front suspension. That was dangerous. I went and told the system manager right away. They went out there and they checked, and there was like 400 cars he had done that to. He was mad because they had suspended him for drinking.

[blackdawg]

wow that was a incredible story on the freemont plant,if that happened now you would be thrown out on your ass.

[oem4me]

Ok, now that factory sloppiness that I have referred to a few times in other threads makes perfect sense ..somebody that was drunk off his a** masked my suburban interior panels for two tone paint.
Here, see for yourself.

[64fleetside]

I have a burb from Fremont, sold new to Howard Cahoon in Battle Ground, Washington state (near Mt St Helens), all my other rigs from St Louis-I can tell the quality was wayyy better from St Louis, now I know why!

[losthope]

My previous 63,65 and current 66 c-10's were all built in fremont plant have idea were they went after plant.

[T Smith]

My 66 was built in Atlanta, no idea what dealership it was shipped to but it had remained in Georgia until the previous owner got it and took it to Orlando where I went and got it and brought it to Mississippi.

I've also decided by the VIN that it's really a 65 though it is titled as a 66.

[1Bad62Pro/Street]

VIN 2C144N122375
My '62 was built @ the Norwood Assembly Plant located in Norwood, Ohio.
General Motors built cars/trucks @ the Norwood Assembly Plant between the years of 1923 - 1987. Norwood was a very old plant that was typical of the old standard model for Fisher Body/Chevrolet assembly facilities; the Fisher Body plant and the Chevrolet assembly plant were on the same piece of property, but were operated by two separate GM Divisions.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_Assembly
http://www.gmsalariedretirees.com/GMplantHistory.html
http://canadianponcho.activeboard.co...rt=newestFirst

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[198plus]

My 65 was built in Atlanta.

[nimrod]

My '66 C10 was built in Fremont and delivered to 49er Chevrolet in Angel's Camp, according to what I can see on the fragments of my build sheet.
The verbal history on this truck is that it was initially used as a guard's truck at San Quentin Prison. Not sure if there is any way for me to verify this, though.

[el minero]

My '63 C 20 was built in Oakland and most likely rode the Western Pacific rails in an auto rack to Salt Lake City. From there it was distributed to Roy Price Chevrolet in Bountiful UT. It was sold to the original owner in April 1963.

[dean jendro]

My '64' short stepside was built at the Janesville, Wisconsin plant and was sold to my grandfather at City Motors in Great Falls, Montana. The Janesville plant is long gone but City Motors is still in Great Falls, although in a different building.

[SFTorange]

Originally Posted by dean jendro

My '64' short stepside was built at the Janesville, Wisconsin plant and was sold to my grandfather at City Motors in Great Falls, Montana. The Janesville plant is long gone but City Motors is still in Great Falls, although in a different building.

That's interesting. My dad's '66 Suburban was built in Jenesville, Wisconsin and sold by City Chevrolet in Great Falls. It still has the dealer emblem on the fender extension.

[dean jendro]

Originally Posted by SFTorange

That's interesting. My dad's '66 Suburban was built in Jenesville, Wisconsin and sold by City Chevrolet in Great Falls. It still has the dealer emblem on the fender extension.

Neat! I've also got the dealer emblem and I plan on putting it back on the truck. I think it was on the driver's side extension. City Motors was on the main drag (Central Ave) in Great Falls and I used to deliver papers there as a young kid.
Dean

[el minero]

I lived in Great Falls close to City Chevrolet. We were right next to that big 'ol water tower.