Dearborn Assembly 1962

[@steve1311]

I worked at the assembly plant for 15 years and the rouge complex for 20 more. Great company to work for with a lot of great people.

[@jj-eo7bj]

That’s 35 yrs good for you I retired at 30 dang good people tough work miss it today

[@radioguy1620]

Thanks , probably rode in one of your creations

[@richardtrudeau7363]

Worked DAP 78 to 82. Body drop final line.

[@danielmorse6597]

I miss that generation of workers. They worked hard and gave us an amazing place to grow up.

[@yuckabuster]

I agree

[@robertpradella6550]

Yes i agree

[@jasons44]

Do you guys actually think the millennial generation can do what the men of War 2 generation did these boys are so soft in communist they've been brainwashed with a bunch of junk that does nothing but harm theirselves and not even know it Hollywood the west coast East Coast is in the bag for socialist bull thank God there's regular people in Mid America that's not living in some ridiculous bubble of racism charges in transgender problems and snowflake problems it's really sickening

[@redkap5816]

@@jasons44 I know there to big of pussies to UNIONIZE Toyota Honda Kia BMW Volkswagen Mercedes...sickening weak pussies

[@Bartonovich52]

@ J You do realize that the Greatest Generation that fought WWII actually built Hollywood as they looked for escapes from the Great Depression. No... it’s the Boomers who suck... because they’ve never known want. They went from hippy protesters to sending young people to die in wars to make them money, wrecking the economy while doing so. It was they who sent all of these jobs to Mexico and Korea and China. Like President Bone Spurs.

[@GettingNervous]

This was the time when people were proud of their work and proud of every car that was built.

[@jonbaker3728]

Speak for yourself, I'm proud of what I produce now.

[@GettingNervous]

@@jonbaker3728 What do you mean what my comment is? Of course I speak for myself, for who else? 🤦‍♂️

[@jonbaker3728]

@@GettingNervous You claim that this early 60's manufacturing was when people were proud of their work. I disagree. I feel very proud of my work in 2021. Many people that work feel pride in their work. Maybe you don't. It might be time for a new profession.

[@GettingNervous]

@@jonbaker3728 And why is the quality of work much worse today, despite new technologies? And if you accuse me of things here, that doesn't make your opinion any more correct. I say my opinion, if you disagree, ok. But that doesn't change my opinion. And that ends the discussion.

[@jonbaker3728]

@@GettingNervous Maybe YOUR work is worse today, but I make things that would take 10 times longer to produce back then. And THAT ends the discussion.

[@joesmithatridecorp9011]

I wish we still had our manufacturing and assembly plants here in the USA 🇺🇸

[@timschmidt3784]

We do. Kansas City, Louisville, Chicago, Dearborn

[@surferbri5346]

Cleveland Brookpark has about 400 employees left,

[@wildestcowboy2668]

We were strong till the baby boomers ruined the country

[@dondiesel1100]

Vote for demerats

[@dyer2cycle]

..we don't, and it is going to be a major part of our undoing...we are no longer self sufficient..manufacturing was a major, major factor in our victory in WW2, and a major factor why we became a superpower afterward...for the next 69-70 years, anyways....

[@MD-rd9fh]

These movies are so important in the preservation of the technology that was used at the time that may have been forgotten otherwise. Those people were absolute craftsmen. And the cars they made then were the best ever.

[@pyro323]

To this day the River Rouge Plant, now called Dearborn Truck plant, is still operating. It cranks out 1,200 Ford F-150s per day!

[@RivetGardener]

What an amazing process- all that machining for the engine blocks. I guess they still do it this way today? When I was in college, I had a 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 (352 engine) with 150,000 miles. Ran perfectly never did anything to it except change oil and brakes. We called it the "tuna boat". It was a white 4 door with a bronze interior. The package shelf behind the rear seat and rear window was long and wide enough to hold a German Shepherd on road trips. And we took many! What a great video.

[@joeyjamison5772]

I took the tour there in 1974 when they were building Ford Mavericks. It was unbelievable watching the assembly lines in full operation.

[@buckeyemike2287]

My dad was a lifer at Ford casting plant in Cleveland ,Ohio....he started out in the foundry in the '50s and hated it ….he told me many times he pleaded insanity to get out of there....so he went to ford school (which they offered ) and became a millwright...He told me that was the best thing he ever did.....he was a loyal ford worker for a good 30+ years

[@foxtrot312]

Now Ford outsources and automates... No job at all😔

[@michaelv3340]

I've always heard the casting plants were the hottest, dirtiest and most miserable places to work in the auto industry.

[@surferbri5346]

@@michaelv3340 casting plant was the best, I worked at cleveland casting also, sad to see it completely gone now, less than 400 people working in engine plant 1,

[@lollipop84858]

Damn. Poor guy

[@bruceguertin9043]

I worked in this plant 9-8-67 to 9-8-70. They built Mustangs then. I was a roll test driver. I recognized two fellas I knew in the film.

[@chillyfingers123]

Bruce Guertin must take you back!

[@stevenvanheel3932]

Wow!

[@lowellmorse6723]

Things sure have changed since then, Bruce. Wouldn't you say?

[@stephenlacher587]

That's pretty cool!

[@garlitzhyperformancegarage8818]

That is fuckin awesome

[@DiHandley]

Those were the days of “a hard days work”. It still amazes me how little they paid attention to safety though! Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@hotwired6798]

It's not that they didn't pay attention to safety is that the people are smart enough to not get hurt . Today's world is full of snowflakes

[@mikef.1000]

What I find amazing is how much attention we pay to safety these days. In fact, we are so obsessed with it that it has become our god.

[@billserantoni9210]

I worked there in both the engine plant and the assembly plant. We built Mustangs in 65--67. Interesting place. I visited and took the Rouge Factory tour last year. Very different feel to it.

[@jj-eo7bj]

Too laid back now

[@hdfd971]

I give these people a lot a respect to be able work on a assembly line and not go insane. I couldn’t do it.

[@chrisnord5078]

I was actually impressed with the machining operations on the engine block. That was pretty impressive technology in 1962.

[@BobbyTucker]

This whole country was impressive in 1962.

[@ElmwoodPkILBuschFraudulentexCo]

Chris Nord it was okay.!

[@jasons44]

But you got to admit not soon after this. Of engine building Detroit lost their way the union destroyed Detroit along with the free Atlantic trade Bill Clinton implemented that I hope Trump rearranges

[@keybyss98]

@@jasons44 Unions didn’t destroy Detroit. There’s plenty of unions in still-successful countries like Finland, Germany, Switzerland, etc,., that have fairly healthy middle classes *because* of their union rates. This was not only at a time when unions were very high, but it was also when America was at it’s most economically (sans obvious racial inequities) stable and equal, with a super healthy middle class. We haven’t had that since the 1970’s. Guess what else has went out the window since the 70’s.... Don’t engulf and share corporate, anti-union propaganda, please.

[@michiganmotorsports]

Same technology they had in 1938.

[@wb6162]

That workforce was trained in efficiency and discipline by the US Army, Navy & Marines!

[@matthewnosal6893]

All we have now coming in the industry is girly men pansies that play on there phones all day

[@napoleonrobertsonjr5084]

This was a great video. I was born in 1962 so I would not been able to visted the plant however, I now own tow Ford classic cars from there, A 1979 Ford LTD Landau and a 1989 Lincoln Town Car Sig Ser.

[@claystone7729]

Grandfather, Father and his Brother all worked for Fords and Dad worked at the Rouge in 1962. God Bless America lets make America Great!

[@mescko]

Funny, my Mum was born and raised in Windsor, and said it the same way..."my brother worked at Fords..." My Dad was born and raised in Detroit, I was born in Livonia. GO BLUE!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Time to make America great again. We are up against the academy, the media, Hollywood, identity politics and the Democrats. As pervasive as this heavily fortified infrastructure is, the good news is the Left’s dearth of ideological diversity may yet entice enlightened conservatives to step up and fill the void.

[@bruceguertin9043]

David is a Michigan native. How do I know. We say worked at Fords instead of we worked for Ford. ;-)

[@buckshot6481]

I doubt America can ever be that kinda great again. 😢

[@chief1972]

No,we're done.It's all about getting things out the door.No more quality.

[@garyshepard7881]

I worked on the line in the Lavonia transmission plant back in the early 70s. We made all of the automatic transmissions for every Ford automobile in America. The plant ran 24 hours a day 365 days a year. We produced around 3000 transmissions a day!

[@joeysplats3209]

Watching that video made me feel very patriotic.

[@mescko]

I was born in Livonia at St. Mary's!

[@jeffreyyoung9256]

The engines they were casting, machining, and building were FEs (352-390-406-427-428). No cross bolted mains, so they were most likely 352s and 390s. The only FE installation in Fairlanes I know of were the 1964 "Thunderbolt" drag cars with "top oiler" cross-bolted 427s. And these were custom-built by Dearborn Steel Tubing, not on a Ford assembly line. The really trick race cars were typically done by these outside shops - just as Shelby built GT-350s from K-code 289 Mustangs.

[@eugeneschulte4950]

In 1962? No 427s or 428s. Only, 352s 390s, and 406s

[@dennisford2000]

Most likely 352

[@3beltwesty]

Got a special tour through there in 1961 62 and 63..Our neighbor was retired From Ford..George Walker Jr.. he designed the thunderbird. Walking above where they have molten cast iron was super cool and super hot temperature wise.

[@garymckee8857]

The year I was born, these people worked very hard keeping the line moving.

[@AmpasaurusWrecks]

This is really amazing on a mass production basis.

[@drwisdom1]

Fascinating video. They surely thought they recording advanced manufacturing, but with the passage of time it looks almost archaic. So many things were done by hand and were dangerous. There had to be many injuries. Space was tight but the action was loose. I liked the way they dropped in the angled transmission by hand adjustment.

[@georges7340]

Working at Kansas City Assembly! Boy, have things changed!! So much automation! But the production numbers are way up from back then...... still it's fascinating to see how we have evolved!😎

[@GMEMD_SD40-2]

What a delightful film. I just took delivery of an F150 built there and I love that Dearborn Assembly is still operating. Go Ford!

[@billyboy4797]

You really begin to appreciate the effort that goes into these quality products. If you look, many of those employee tasks and duties have been replaced with the machine.

[@TheGeil8500]

I remember my dad bought a brand new 1962 Fairlane with a 260 c.i. V8 and a 3 on the tree. 260 was a strong motor if not better than the 289.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

My 2003.5 Focus 2.3 liter still going strong @ 162 K miles.

[@matthewbanta3240]

It is funny to see workers doing things by hand that are now done by robot. Also back then you could order a car anyway you want it. However it is more efficient to just have a few trim levels. So now if you want the upgraded engine then you also have to get the upgraded stereo, wheels, and transmission. Back then you could get wind up windows with power door locks or upgraded engine with a base transmission.

[@janebook294]

BACK THEN THE CUSTOMER WAS KING !!!

[@RDC_Autosports]

when i moved GM door jam division “went to china” i asked why so little people.... people bitch, robots don’t, they don’t get sick, they don’t need insurance etc... guys sweeping the floor was getting $27.50 an hr, plus insurance,plus 401k .... as a business owner myself every year i downsize because good help is hard to find, just fired a “mechanic” outa the military.... kid couldn’t stay off his phone and never came in sober.... i’m not worrying about employing people anymore.... it’s just not the same

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Jane Book You may be looking back with rose colored glasses there Jane Book. ukfan4sure1‘s comment (here) concerning the poor welds doesn’t begin to describe Detroit’s: (A.) Quality problems; and (B) Unwillingness to stand behind it’s products.

[@jaydee5156]

We had a 1962 Fairlane, complete with 260 V8 and two-speed auto trans.

[@detroitbluesguy]

Great car and engine!!

[@gregster4994]

My dad had a 62 Fairlane. Interesting to watch this.

[@toddburgess6792]

Thank you. Great video. I drove the wheels off my '62 Fairlane. I swear I saw my 'ol Bessie Lew in there somewhere!

[@fotismpalopitas7196]

Old good days when Detroit dominated the auto industry.

[@Chiddlewave]

As someone who works for a different Ford Assembly Plant I can tell you these days are long gone, it's quantity over quality and I don't feel proud building a vehicle that's gonna sit in a yard for months waiting on repairs because we had a number to hit and were ordered to let it bypass.

[@mikecorleone6797]

Back when things were built to last 🇺🇸

[@jerrynavarro2404]

Right

[@jimcarroll3730]

Built to last? My grandfather worked for both gm and Ford, you were lucky to get cars that lasted 5 yrs, the automakers new they could put out what ever crap they wanted and the American public would buy it, there was no competition, as the Japanese started importing cars here, Americans saw what a difference in fit and finish. When my grandfather was getting ready to retire, gm offered him a Cadillac for 45 yrs of service, he refused, he knew better, we never bought American cars, it was always Volkswagen or Honda and Toyota

[@andrewfetterolf7042]

Thats true

[@mikecorleone6797]

@@jimcarroll3730 we have a 1937 ford pickup that’s been in the family since new. My great grandfather bought it right before ww2 kicked off and my grandfather got it in the 70’s then my dad got it in the 90’s now i have it. It still has the original flathead v8 and original transmission. Still runs till this day but mainly i drive it around on special occasions or when my girls ask to go for a ride in it. She’ll do 60 down the highway to the beach or wherever, smokes a bit on start up sure but other than that she does good for a truck that’s creeping up on 90 years old. Id say that’s built to last. I want to see any new vehicle import or domestic last 85+ years without a major overhaul and still fire right up and drive like the day it was built. Hell even my 67 bug is better built than the new stuff

[@cipherthedemonlord8057]

All made with our own resources too not imported steel from China.

[@ytgmbutler]

Very exciting to see such a modern and efficient assembly plant. I’d like to come visit and possibly take a tour very soon.

[@philjerome9795]

Yes, Mr. Ford dealer, I would like a Galaxie with a 352, four speed.

[@Rampant_Colt]

make mine an R-code 427

[@BobbyTucker]

Or faster yet, a 406 engine with a 4 speed.

[@southjerseyboy2844]

My grandfather had a 60 skyliner with a 352 ,it was his first car I think

[@STARDRIVE]

"That will be $7849,50" Here's 10 grand, keep the change.

[@eugeneschulte4950]

@@southjerseyboy2844 Ummmmmmm. No your grandfather did Not have a 60 Skyliner!!! Maybe a Starliner though!!!!

[@vitosanto3874]

I worked at the Chevrolet plant in Tarrytown N.Y. For 3 years one of my jobs was to put rear shock absorbers on the chassis as it passed my work station ,do the math.500 cars per shift,2 shocks per car That’s one thousand shocks per shift ,plus 4 bolts ,nuts and lock washers .I slept good at night. The pay was great.

[@johnmeeks6113]

Very interesting and entertaining ..I love it good job Vick....

[@ddkoda]

Very fascinating! Although many of the procedures in the body shell assembly line are now automated the degree to which precision automation procedures were part of engine manufacturing in 1962 was very surprising to me.

[@marionmitchell261]

Thank you for uploading this!! Marion.

[@MyGoingsOn]

I owned one when I was 16. I'm 60 now and own another one. Restoring this one. Restoration videos are also on YT. Plus, the car has a web site.

[@chetpomeroy1399]

They built *A LOT* of commuter cars, which were reliable transportation back and forth to work!!

[@jimcarroll3730]

They weren’t reliable, you were lucky to get 5 yrs out of it before it rusted out

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@jimcarroll3730 Those of us who lived in the Sun Belt didn't have that problem.

[@danmurphy7713]

When we were a nation of PRODUCERS NOT CONSUMMERS . These men earned a LIVING for their families .They sent kids to college and the wives took care of the home . So drive your cheap no class cookie cutter Asian cars and keep a foreign worker in a job . I love to drive my 67 Cadillac Deville convt around just to show the younger people just what this country used to build . Whats happened to our country is sickening .

[@waterheaterservices]

66 Sedan DeVille here. Most enjoyable car I have ever owned.

[@lees.4084]

Are you kidding? You're putting more Americans to work today by buying "import" brands. They have more assembly plants here than the "domestic" brands do. The unions drove the big three to building vehicles in other countries to get away from the increasingly insane demands they were making, while the import brands started building here, they either avoided letting the unions in, or the ones that do have them played hardball with them, and keep them from getting out of hand...

[@danmurphy7713]

No I'm not kidding , We don't build anything that will last 50 yrs anymore !! Yep lets make China , Japan, and other countries wealthy. Thank NAFTA and the criminal Clintons, oh yea lets not forget Obama too . enough said . Don't talk to me about UNIONS I was raised on Union wages . Yes there were greedy unions and that screwed everyone . My whole point here is that nothing lasts like it used to. Lets see if all these cheap junk modern vehicles will be around 50 yrs from now .

[@lees.4084]

@@danmurphy7713 You think the vast majority of those cars built back then lasted anywhere near 50 years? The vast majority of them were in a scrapyard within 5-6 years, and not from wrecks either. Most were there because they were worn slap the hell out at 70-80K miles. Cars today last well beyond that, And have half as many squeaks and rattles at 250K than these 60s cars did as they rolled off the dealerships lot for the first time... Look, I'm all for building stuff in America, and hopefully that will happen again. And maybe Trump can turn things around. But dont try to pretend that those old cars were anywhere near as reliable and long lasting as today's cars.

[@1940limited]

Today all we do is take in laundry and turn out hamburgers.

[@slicksnewonenow]

And then eventually, kids... ONE greedy crook said "let's outsource"... NOW look where we're at with almost EVERYTHING.

[@jasoncardoza6375]

.... and those were the boomers who are responsible for that

[@ihave35cents95]

@@jasoncardoza6375 no it isn't you could thank that unions for that.

[@stevecook180]

Reminds me of the reel to reel films we watched in 5th grade.. Thumbs up!

[@icesawman4275]

all these different types of people working together, with a combined goal, I miss this in America, our society is being wrecked by lunatic's dividing our people,

[@joeysplats3209]

Yessir, icesawman. And it's intentional.

[@BobbyTucker]

icesawman 427 You Nailed it.

[@jamess3417]

This all started long before Trump

[@herrunsinn774]

@@jamess3417 ... Perhaps it did... but he gave it a shot of steroids.

[@bobtis]

All robots now. Look at all the men it took

[@bretttingelstad7641]

Watching this from Dearborn Stamping Plant. LOL! I am an electrician here at Ford. Less people and more automation that's true but if your skilled and can fix the robots these jobs are still pretty decent. I raised my kids working here and have been happy. Just need a modern skill set.

[@pantherplatform]

Mr Customer says, "Thank you for sliding that brochure across my freshly painted hood."

[@ocsrc]

I just gave away my 1991 Explorer. Ran and rode like a dream. Original engine and transmission. Starts on the first crank Rust, but runs smoothly 33 years old and just as good as the day it was made Think anything built today will be here in 30 years ?!

[@jonasgrumby1093]

Oops, we accidentally put this 429 boss in this little bitty falcon.

[@xaenon]

LOL, the engine would almost be bigger than the car. Interestingly, there WAS a 429 Cobra Jet (NOT the Boss) available for the Falcon, but only by a technicality. 'Twas the 1970-1/2 Falcon. The smaller X-body car had been discontinued, but Falcon name was for the latter half of the 1970 model year attached to a 2-door sedan version of the 1970 B-body Torino. Since the 429CJ was an engine option for the Torino in 1970, it would have been optional in the Falcon submodel as well. I know Ford built at least ONE such beastie.

[@radioguy1620]

I heard that's how the first 427 or 428 Mustangs were built for Tasca ford , mislabled 390's on purpose , could be an urban legend though

[@xaenon]

The story I got was that the 1967 Mustang GT with a 390 engine was a sore disappointment. It had been aimed to compete with the GTO and the 390 just didn't have the beans for it. The optional 428 was better, but still not enough against the Pontiac. The 427 was available in the Mustang, but that was an expensive option. When the 427 made its final appearance in 1968, it was in detuned 390-hp form, and only had limited availability. The boys at Tasca Ford set out to correct that by swapping the 390 out of a Mustang in favor of a 428 Police Interceptor short-block capped with 427 medium-riser heads. They also gave the Mustang a more aggressive axle ratio and a few other tweaks, and went racin'. The modified 428 turned out to be exactly what Ford needed - an engine that wasn't as expensive or temperamental as the 427s, but still capable of laying some whoop-ass on the competition. And it could be built as a standard production engine (the 427s were essentially hand-built). What's odd is the engine wasn't even all that special, from a parts standpoint. The big difference was the cam and heads. The cam was the same C6OE-B shaft used in the 390GT. The heads were the most exotic part of the engine, based on the medium-riser 427. But anyone who knew anything about cars knew the new CJ mill was good for 400 hp, despite its modest 335 hp 'official' rating (which was, ironically, 10 hp LESS than the standard 428 used in Thunderbird and Gran'ma's LTD).

[@mescko]

radioguy1620 It wouldn't surprise me, I have read that Bob Tasca drove a '63 T-bird with a 427/410 that was installed for him on the assembly line.

[@xaenon]

+mescko Yes, I've heard similar stories. And the 427 was essentially the same basic engine design as the 352/390, so it wouldn't exactly be difficult to do. Overall, though, the 427 was a temperamental beast that required almost constant maintenance, and not really suitable for the average T-bird owner. I'm sure if you knew the right people at Ford, you could have them build almost anything. In fact, the 289 High-Performance V8 was technically an option in the '64-65 Mercury Comet, but to get one, you practically needed a note from God. It was not on the official options list, but if you knew somebody in the district sales office, it could happen. Building it was really not an issue at all - the engine, externally, is identical to every other 260/289 Ford ever screwed together, and the only other 'unique' item necessary - the nine-inch axle - was literally shared with the Mustang. Then there's the guy who had the factory screw together a 428, 4-speed 1967 Country Squire station wagon, complete with bucket seats. A 4-speed manual transmission was not even available for the wagon, but he got the blessing of Mr. Lee Iaccoca, then the head honcho at Ford and it happened. Apparently, the meeting to discuss this with the production managers went something like this: "Is there any reason we can't build the car?" "No." "Build the damned car."

[@a.toniboysmith7360]

This is pretty cool! This is really awesome. I'm thinking about getting back into auto mechanic training. Keep up with the modern vehicles today.

[@westcellhouse]

Dad was a battle hardened WW II vet he came home had abunch of kids and was sales director for studebaker packard in the 50's they just don't make em like they used too

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Incredible story about Packard building the Rolls Royce Merlyn engine in Detroit.. There are recent videos of the Packard factory today on the toob. The Pedestrian Bridge collapsed last winter.. I have been through the Studebaker Museum very Interesting.. Now Days GM is taking all their High tech robotic manufacturing to China and giving it way . Just like Bill Clinton sold Nuclear Missile guidance technology to the Chinese as soon as he became President.. @westcellhouse

[@innocentbystander3798]

And thank God.

[@chrismusix5669]

Our forebears did very hard work to bring us this era of prosperity. 'I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." John 4:38

[@JamesBond-pb2qy]

Love to have some of the Machines. All that coating. And they still rusted !

[@ZnenTitan]

My sister's friend showed me a rust spot on her then week old Vega, right off the show room floor.

[@unclequack5445]

The Jigs, tooling fixtures and machinery is mind boggling think of the man hours that went into the assembly plants.

[@canabox7112]

I didn't see any assembly lube. While the engine was being assembled.

[@richardrichards8401]

I love the workmanship and pride in this video. We have come along way since then and we should be equally proud of that. Safety, ergonomics, attitudes have advanced thanks to unfettered crash and death statistics, government mandates and proven results over time. It’s not easy to adjust, we love the past but in the end we just want to get where we’re going safely! . It not just the USA

[@poikaa3]

In these years my parents paid 25 dollars a month for rent.... 22 cents for a pack of cigarettes.... gasoline was around 20 cents a gallon!

[@sabresergal8989]

poikaa3 yeah but the prices then must’ve been equivalent to today’s counterparts

[@joeysplats3209]

@@sabresergal8989, for a few things, yes. There's certainly been no commensurate rise of income with costs.

[@reallybadaim118]

In 1962 you would earn $1.15 as a minimum wage and the average annual income for all was $4,086.76.

[@lynskyrd]

@@reallybadaim118 yup- if you were breaking $10,000 per year- you were UMC

[@normanott644]

My 62 Spots Coupe was assembled in Kansas City, I found the build sheet when I took the panels off below the rear window.

[@mikemarino1917]

This work should of never been allowed to leave the country!!!

[@Journeyman-Fixit]

I had a 1967 Fairlane, it was a great car.

[@rgs4x]

Must have been cool to start a 427 with 2 -4's.

[@xaenon]

For a couple of years, I owned a '65 Galaxie with a twin-quad 427. This was back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when most people weren't even aware Ford had ever built such a thing. And yes. Yes, it was unbearably cool to twist the key on that mill. Especially when the motor was cold; it would crank, sputter once or twice, and then Kwa-WHOOOM. It was a bitch to get it to idle until it warmed up a little, too - not that it ever idled particularly 'well'. It was noisy as hell, and the neighbors HATED me. It was a thirsty thing - but then, nobody bought a car like that for gas mileage. Despite the lack of power assists of ANY sort, the car was surprisingly easy to drive - at normal speeds, anyway. It handled like a pig and was a nightmare to stop at anything above 50 miles an hour, and you had to adjust the valves about once a month, but stomp on that pedal and it was happy times indeed. The engine would just sort of BELLOW when you got into it, and the 'sweet spot' (with regard to how hard it would pull, and the sound it made) was right around the 4000 rpm mark. Tires would just say 'screw it' and evaporate. Well, ONE tire anyway. For reasons defying comprehension, there was no Traction-Lok in that car. I later learned it wasn't even available with that engine. Ford probably felt the locking diff would have been too fragile for that kind of power. Seriously, people would often ask what engine I had in it - I'd tell them '427' an they'd stammer and stare and immediately ask why I put a Chevy engine in it. And when I told them it wasn't a Chevy, they'd snicker and 'correct' me by telling me that Ford 'didn't make' a 427 - and what I had was a 428. I won a number of bets when I'd demonstrate that Chevy wasn't the only OEM with a a bona fide 427 V8 in its roster. I really, REALLY wish I hadn't sold it. BUT... new wife, kid on the way.... we needed a house of our own, and she was never happy that I had that car to start with. Ah, well. We make sacrifices, yeah?

[@canabox7112]

Good story. Thanks for sharing.

[@philjerome9795]

We can all dream. When I was a young lad back in the late 70's, you would see the old Detroit muscle, in used car lots. I remember a 428, 1970 Mustang, that someone picked up at the auction, for a couple of grand.

[@1978garfield]

My dad talks about many of the muscle cars rotting on used car lots when gas went up. No one could afford to drive them.

[@Remo860]

The brakes lock up immediately, perfect! 9:36

[@RobertStanton-7440]

We all need to work together to bring these facilities back to the USA

[@neilkinney6600]

I love the Ford Vehicle! The world is a better place because of it!

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

After years of new cars, my favorite vehicle out of all of them, is the 1984 F150 I now drive as my daily driver. 4x4, 4spd, single cab, I just dropped $3000 into it to have a new clutch, brakes, and some engine work done, and it drives like a new truck now, and has new tires. I get honked at in traffic by people pulling up and saying how they like seeing one that looks new. It's a nice feeling to get that from folks, for a functional Ford that cost me practically nothing compared to a new truck.

[@Toolaholic7]

Some assembly line workers loved to throw in items which were not suppose to be in the car bodies.They were empty beverage cans,extra nuts and bolts.Some new cars don't make on the road after being built today,they go to schools as training aids and they can't can't go back on the road.Find defects in them and have to be crushed if another school does not take them.

[@delavalmilker]

The claim that workers maliciously threw items into hidden corners of the cars is an urban myth.

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

6:25 The guy smoking on the line! LOL!

[@josephastier7421]

Those days are gone forever.

[@GTVAlfaMan]

Is this the Ford River Rouge plant? I could actually see this factory from the front door of my home in Melvindale, Michigan, where I grew up.

[@joeysplats3209]

Remember when folks would dress up nice, even if they were just going to the movies or maybe just shopping! Today we have PeopleOfWalmart.com. If you've never been, no reason to start now.

[@williamsizemore98]

I'd love to work there. I've been forging for 24 yrs, love to build cars.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

The home of rock and roll!!!!!!!!

[@timdafler3223]

Love the end product...more amazed by the tooling..

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

I'm glad to see Black man working making a living.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Hey @Buff Barnaby those black came from the South to work in Detroit at the Car Companies.

[@stevemurray710]

Exactly, but it was the Dems and environmentalist who were just happy to shut manufacturing and steal the future from these folks as the Detroit jobs went to Canada and mexico. Blacks lost a lot of jobs when they shutdown a chemical plant in nj. Environmentalist loved the plant shutdown.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Here we have a documentary movie which depicts the building of automobiles. The automobiles the movie depicts are Ford automobiles. Ford is one of the older and more well known automobile manufacturers. The company is named after Henry Ford who was a Detroit Michigan entrepreneur who helped pioneer the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing.

[@richardmann5049]

if the line workers knew a certain vehicle coming down the line (ordered by another worker) they would install things to the worker who ordered the car, not was not accounted for.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

I know some one who owns a Boss 429 Mustang very rare very valuable today @Richard Mann

[@sixmile2360]

Richard Mann Spent thirty years in an assembly plant and never saw that happen. Are you full of shit?

[@mescko]

@@sixmile2360 My Dad owned a '56 Buick that had been ordered by an engineer in Flint that had one-off options fitted. I've got the paperwork somewhere.

[@wayneknelsen6361]

Thanks. My 63 ford galaxie. Has the engine shown.

[@drServitis]

AND THEN THE UNIONS GOT TOO GREEDY AND THEY LOST THEIR JOBS. DETROIT USED TO BE A WORLD CLASS CITY. NOW IT'S JUST A SHAME TO AMERICA.

[@stevenredman1582]

Don't blame the unions. NOBODY complained when GTOs and GTXs were flying off showroom floors. No sir, blame the government mandated safety and fuel economy first, then blame the American designers who gave the good union workers crap to build that no one wanted to buy. Union (UAW) workers simply built what they were given to build and now find themselves taking the heat for matters far beyond their control.

[@danielmorse6597]

You are full of shit. It was a crisis build by fuel costs, changing tech and the companies who squandered it. I drive by empty fields in Detroit every day. Old factories gone, homes gone. It was not the unions alone. You are stupid.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

@@stevenredman1582 in the 1980's every time GM got busy and had orders the Unemployed Auto Workers would go on strike and shut them down and they would loose sales to Ford Chrysler and Japanese cars.. The UAW had strikes at Ford and Chrysler too but not as many because those two always were in Financial trouble .. Ford is the only CO that made drastic changes before the 2008 Economic Collapse ..so that Ford did not have to go Bankrupt ..

[@falcon6995]

Unions were created by the mob for their personal profit. And the fuel crisis excuse was bullshit because there were plenty of ways to squeeze extra mpg out of these cars such as adding overdrive gears to their transmissions and reducing weight. The cars these days are heavier than the ones back then.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

@@falcon6995 Unions were needed around 1900 and before .. Read the book "The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair.. then they got greedy and out of control in the 1970's Yes Unions are run by Mobsters but the Mentality of the workers are of Extortion.. In Socialist Countries where the State controls Production wages are very low. General Motors had a Factory in Venezuela but the Government seized it. GM gave Employees 6 months severance pay and those who could flee fled the country while they were still alive..

[@bobmarker6812]

3:40 - The valve covers are open - exposing the rocker arms.

[@mescko]

Perhaps to do a visual check that oil was getting to the rockers?

[@lollipop84858]

How else do you think they set the lash..?

[@LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC]

Gosh I'm old now.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Here we have an amazing presentation which shows and tells the viewers how to make a car. This documentary is presented by the motor company itself so you don’t see and hear any workers cussing at the parts which don’t fit together properly or complaining about the heat or yelling at someone who isn’t performing his job satisfactorily. The movie is designed to enhance the image of the motor company to please potential new hires, banks, stockholders, dealers, and customers. The idea is that the movie will help sell Fords and the more Fords the movie helps sell the more money everyone will make.

[@goyeabuddy]

these were good paying union jobs that you could support a family on..

[@stevrosssmearu5293]

maybe in 1962 but not anymore supporting a family nowadays takes to {2} high incomes to live in a decent area and live normally but unionized workplaces are the best for the average

[@josephastier7421]

Sure, in the 1950's when the USA was the only game in town because we had blown up every other factory ON EARTH. Good times, until they got it all rebuilt again.

[@OnerousEthic]

Before FMC had an IT department, my grandfather, Robert E. Houston, was the IT department. He was #1 at the steel mill and #4 at Willow Run…

[@bellawright4265]

When i was younger i had a t-shirt that said..ford trucks are built ford tough...just like the tough some bitches that build them.I loved that shirt.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Just don't try to do with a Ford Truck what they did in the Commercials it would total it @Bella Wright

[@mdogg1604]

Anyone notice at 5:33 the '62 Mercury Comet next to the '62 Ford Fairlane on the assembly line?

[@stevemurray710]

I saw some mercury meteors.

[@condoblueskies]

Delivered on the truck with the windows down, surely not!

[@davidparker4577]

I think the 427 were a solid lifter style in the 428 wher more hydraulic?

[@hankschrader149]

Talk about in house! Cool shit right there

[@carlvitko1355]

When i was born in '62 my dad had a '60 Fairlane. Wonder if it was built at the Rouge.

[@Tnenamrep2]

You don't see workers smoking while working anymore.

[@clutch5sp989]

Background music is from a monster movie or dracula suck'n sumfin.

[@philippreitshammer]

Always the same. Hate it

[@thecurtray]

i love my united states of america. we are great. we are the one others want to be. did you do anything today to make it better for others. i try even down to picking up trash in my hood

[@ixlr8677]

no u missed the good america.good health care dident know what a co pay or ins payment was. good days only mexicans i ever seen was on nat. geographic. glad im 63 . bye bye have fun in this fucked up mess our elected cock suckin brib taking thievin worthless 2 for a nickle back scratchin whats in it for me grab it hand over fist politicians have done .

[@JamesBond-pb2qy]

You mean were Great at one time

[@tbwil]

Don Jones you are too ignorant for worded rebuttal.

[@thecurtray]

what a person spits from their dirty infected mouths,is the life they will have to endure. ask and you shall receive. spew crap from your mouth and thoughts of such and that is the life you will live. i still love america. i still believe in god but i do think america was traded for israel on 9-11 and the towers was the handshake. why is statue of liberty not on american soil,but in water

[@tbwil]

"what a person spits from their dirty infected mouths,is the life they will have to endure" My how melodramatic coming from an apparently anti Semitic conspiracy theoretic lunatic. Prove me wrong with facts and surprise me..

[@aarongranda7825]

Like the happy fifties pizzicato music. Are those fairlanes? Is that the same as a Mercury meteor? Next step up from falcon comet, right?

[@markmiller6642]

It's sad what greed and the unions did to a once might nation ! We have lost America of yesteryear

[@williambozynski1176]

many guys graduated from Fordson High School then drove over to the employment office at the Rouge to get a job.

[@TuneStunnaMusic]

Now I know why these cars had so many body issues with rust. The assemblers violently jammed parts together, I cant imagine how many scratches were on the parts that were clapped against each other. Wow. Good thing the parts were overbuilt.

[@irritablearchitect]

The parts you're describing weren't even coated with any sort of primer or paint yet.

[@TheOzthewiz]

The reason they had issues was that the body panels that were not visible were left as bare metal without being painted. Also in those days inner fender liners had not been thought of yet.

[@TuneStunnaMusic]

ojars zvaigzne good point

[@Rockit442]

ojars zvaigzne, Inner fenders, splash aprons have been around since full fenders have been around at least back to the 1920's. Most all of the rust issues come from not using body sealer between joints. Mopar didn't use sealer and thats why most are rust buckets. Same with VW's etc... Cars don't rust today because most are not made of steel.

[@TheOzthewiz]

I was talking about INNER FENDER LINERS. Those parts came into general use in the '70s. The early Vegas, Pintos, Mustangs, Corvairs, Buick Specials, full sized Fords DID NOT have these. I should know becauase I owned these vehicles. I also should mention that I owned a couple of Plymouth Valiants and a Plymouth duster. These cars also had NO inner liners, as a result sand and salt would get packed in near the cowl. And all these vehicles would have rust holes punch through the fender at this location. If liners would have been installed, those fenders would be rust-free to this day. BTW, these cars, 1964, 1975 , respectively, were not built in the 1920s. Good Day, Sir!

[@a1wireless1964]

Parents had a car the same exact year and model as the one in the spray booth, wouldn't it be awesome if there was a way you could prove that was the actual car on another note I wonder how many of these vehicles are still around or on the road

[@radioguy1620]

V8 Fairlane , rare even then , 221 or 260 ci

[@RossABQ]

221 in '62

[@stevemurray710]

63 meteor I think offered 221 260 or hot v8 4barrel maybe a 289 in the s33 model.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Henry Ford was born in Dearborn 1863, 99 years before this film