Proud to have a first gen cruze built there! Got the sticker on the inside of the driver door jam. After fixing and updating all the stuff taht these cars are known for breaking, they're actually pretty good cars after that
I spent 35 of those 50 years there.. when i started there was 11 thousand workers...When i left.. there was around 2 thousand...The whole time i worked there i was under the threat of the plant closing..I never bought a home or anything significant because of those threats..Now retired i am very thankful to have stuck it out ...although i wished i never would have paid attention to the rumors..I would have bought a home and it would have been paid off by now...The plant is closed now.. so those rumors were true it was just the timing that was wrong..
2:16 Well that was the last model year for the Toyota Cavalier. These were exported to Japan with Toyota badges, you know, in return for the Chevy Prizm (which had been a Geo before that before GM ended the brand, as it was basically a rebadged Corolla, mainly a rebadged Toyota Sprinter that Toyota sold in the domestic market in Japan).
I'd love to see footage from 1978 to 1980...those 3 years are impossible to find. Plenty of footage of the first generation H body the Vega but little to none of the 2nd gen, Monza, Sunbird, Skyhawk and Starfire. 1:20 shows a monza, but it look's like a 77model, so that might have been the pilot line, happening at the end of the '77 model year.
At the beginning of the '77 model year, GM's South Gate plant in Los Angeles was making the Monza, Sunbird and Skyhawk. But the '77 fullsize models were selling well above what GM expected and they needed an additional assembly plant. So around the time of the Christmas shut-down, South Gate began assembling full-size Chevrolet, Buick and Olds models and H-body assembly moved from South Gate to Lordstown. Around the same time, the main Monza-Sunbird-Starfire-Skyhawk plant in Ste Therese, Quebec, shut down to retool for the '78 Cutlass and Grand Prix, so by Spring '77 the entire H-body line was being made exclusively at Lordstown.
look lords town really almost got the ax in 87 Norwood Assembly plant was 63 yrs old and was 3 story even tho Norwood was a better plant it was a last second decision to close Norwood.
Norwood was older that’s why it was closed, even a plant that has better workforce and quality index can get its product taken away an idled just for a newer plant. I learned that the hard way.
@@TheMW2informer Norwood's age wasn't so much the issue. The plant was hemmed in by railroad tracks, a freeway and other infrastructure and couldn't be expanded. It was more expensive to make and ship cars from Van Nuys, but that plant was built way out in the suburbs and had room to expand to absorb the entirety of F-body production.
The union stole my job management stole my ideas the company outsourced the family leave act violating the whole purpose of it which would also violate hips if they use your idea and don’t pay you in a year and you don’t rewrite the idea they steal it I even rewrote mine how does a union allow this well my union physically treated me 3 separate time when I was fighting for job safety and quality if people had a clue of the crap that went on there I was assaulted by the plant doctor when he put his hands on me without permission and said I was fine to go back to work on pain killers which isn’t leagal the union did nothing this was a month before hip replacement I argued and shut the plant down because the outer ring was being thrown at us we had a plant manager with 4 DUIs and busted with cocaine are female plant manager had a affair with a union offical
Lots of crap cars made there. Not the workers fault. Management is to blame. Meanwhile at Honda USA, Americans make well made cars. No strikes. It's how you treat your workers.
Proud to have a first gen cruze built there! Got the sticker on the inside of the driver door jam. After fixing and updating all the stuff taht these cars are known for breaking, they're actually pretty good cars after that
I have an '83 van from here. My favorite thing ever! I call her The White Knight
I spent 35 of those 50 years there.. when i started there was 11 thousand workers...When i left.. there was around 2 thousand...The whole time i worked there i was under the threat of the plant closing..I never bought a home or anything significant because of those threats..Now retired i am very thankful to have stuck it out ...although i wished i never would have paid attention to the rumors..I would have bought a home and it would have been paid off by now...The plant is closed now.. so those rumors were true it was just the timing that was wrong..
2:16 Well that was the last model year for the Toyota Cavalier. These were exported to Japan with Toyota badges, you know, in return for the Chevy Prizm (which had been a Geo before that before GM ended the brand, as it was basically a rebadged Corolla, mainly a rebadged Toyota Sprinter that Toyota sold in the domestic market in Japan).
I'd love to see footage from 1978 to 1980...those 3 years are impossible to find. Plenty of footage of the first generation H body the Vega but little to none of the 2nd gen, Monza, Sunbird, Skyhawk and Starfire. 1:20 shows a monza, but it look's like a 77model, so that might have been the pilot line, happening at the end of the '77 model year.
TheRedSpyder its the same structurally there's not much difference. Just a pile of f****** junk!
ruclips.net/video/6AB4G43GSmU/видео.html go 5 minutes into this video, pretty sure that’s lordstown, unless vega was also made elsewhere.
At the beginning of the '77 model year, GM's South Gate plant in Los Angeles was making the Monza, Sunbird and Skyhawk. But the '77 fullsize models were selling well above what GM expected and they needed an additional assembly plant. So around the time of the Christmas shut-down, South Gate began assembling full-size Chevrolet, Buick and Olds models and H-body assembly moved from South Gate to Lordstown. Around the same time, the main Monza-Sunbird-Starfire-Skyhawk plant in Ste Therese, Quebec, shut down to retool for the '78 Cutlass and Grand Prix, so by Spring '77 the entire H-body line was being made exclusively at Lordstown.
Love the honesty about the Vega. Wonder how many years Lordstown made a profit selling Vegas, Cobalts, Cavaliers, and Cruizes.
Use to go here a lot
..and now it's shut down
My parents 1974 chevy beauville van was assembled there
$6,300
look lords town really almost got the ax in 87 Norwood Assembly plant was 63 yrs old and was 3 story even tho Norwood was a better plant it was a last second decision to close Norwood.
Norwood was older that’s why it was closed, even a plant that has better workforce and quality index can get its product taken away an idled just for a newer plant. I learned that the hard way.
@@TheMW2informer Norwood's age wasn't so much the issue. The plant was hemmed in by railroad tracks, a freeway and other infrastructure and couldn't be expanded. It was more expensive to make and ship cars from Van Nuys, but that plant was built way out in the suburbs and had room to expand to absorb the entirety of F-body production.
American cars with their styling I don't know it works for me!
The union stole my job management stole my ideas the company outsourced the family leave act violating the whole purpose of it which would also violate hips if they use your idea and don’t pay you in a year and you don’t rewrite the idea they steal it I even rewrote mine how does a union allow this well my union physically treated me 3 separate time when I was fighting for job safety and quality if people had a clue of the crap that went on there I was assaulted by the plant doctor when he put his hands on me without permission and said I was fine to go back to work on pain killers which isn’t leagal the union did nothing this was a month before hip replacement I argued and shut the plant down because the outer ring was being thrown at us we had a plant manager with 4 DUIs and busted with cocaine are female plant manager had a affair with a union offical
What junk they cranked out
Lots of crap cars made there. Not the workers fault. Management is to blame. Meanwhile at Honda USA, Americans make well made cars. No strikes. It's how you treat your workers.
Way too many cars made. Close down all plants for 3 years.