At the Mustang plant
 

Martha...
 

Cute!

My goodness! I can't imagine an auto manufacturer allowing that these days!

They have a cow if you touch a car without all your PPE on.

I guess that would be The Rouge, in operation since 1928.

K

Brilliant proof that music videos didn't start with MTV

I knew of that video, but never saw it.
Yup, the Rouge. Making F150's nowadays.

Nowhere To Run by Martha & the Vandellas was Motown's first music video

Never had anything like that go on at the St. Paul plant in '71-72.
The guy attaching the front fender couldn't keep his eyes off them either...:grin:

It should be mentioned that visitors can tour The Rouge plant during working hours.

The tours are are administrated by and depart from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan.

https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/f...-factory-tour/

Those were the days when the appearance of any female on the shop floor would result in a wave of whoops and hollers.

You could track the individual's progress by where the sound was coming from.

K

I wonder who got a factory Martha hair in their paint on their hood.

In 1967 our Rossford Ohio Senior Class did Detroit for a day , Greenfield Village , Henry Ford Museum and the River Rouge plant where they were building Mustangs and Cougars on the same floor. The controlled chaos and engines revving and tires squealing met our approval to finish our tour !!

What are you thinking happened on a hood ??:hmmm:

So many OSHA violations in one video. I lost count. ;-)

It's up in a mezzanine, looking down. A good tour, but not the same as being on the floor. If you're local, your library may have tickets that you can 'borrow'.

It's pretty sanitized, I imagine on account of the sheer number of civilians passing through.

I've mentioned this before, but I used to give the tours at Flint Assembly when I was an engineering student there. Basically a quick pass up and down the "Main Aisle" between the final lines (Line 1 = pickup; Line 2 = Blazer/Suburban).

People would stand and watch the body drop for as long as you would let them.

K

There's a hair in the paint of my GTO.

It doesn't look like Martha's hair, though.

K

OHSA was established in 1971 BTW.

When I worked at the St Paul plant, the body drop was cool, but the front clip always amazed me, how quickly those guys steered the whole thing into place and dropped the core support on the bolts. It was bolted up and getting adjusted in like 10 seconds.

Saw that Martha & the Vandellas video on PBS last night, on the 'Murray the K' special. Lots of other great vintage 'music videos' also. That's Murray the K you see in the hat at the very beginning of the video, and he's also the one driving the Mustang off of the line at the end. Some great music from years past....

Front end sheetmetal install: Tended to vary based on whatever is was en vogue at the time. When I started in Flint, Line 1 pickups were built piecemeal (radiator support set loosely on the chassis, then LH fender, then RH fender, then hood) but Line 2 Blazer/Suburban was "buck build" as shown here. Same product, under the same roof; two different processes.

My first "real job" after graduating from GMI was as a production supervisor, Line 1 Fender Set area, second shift. We did it piecemeal, then, too. Line rate was 60 jobs per hour, or one completed vehicle per minute, so we had about 45 seconds to get both front fenders on.

K

Back in 6th grade, we did an overnight field trip to the Henry Ford. We did the museum, Village and we got to use the Olympic Swimming pool. I don’t remember what car was being built, I do remember watching the windshields being made. I remember the hot steel, not sure if it was part of Ford casting. It was a good time.