A World-Class Tradition ... Fleetwood/Cadillac Auto Plants
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- Опубликовано: 11 авг 2019
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Here is a 1985 video featuring the old Fleetwood and Cadillac assembly plants in Detroit, Michigan. It was produced by General Motors as a tribute to the plants and the quality cars they built. Unfortunately, the plants were closed a few years later when the car production was moved to the new "Poletown" assembly plant located on the Detroit and Hamtramck border.
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The narrator has taken his final Cadillac ride by now...
Cadillac first remote starter , World class engineering ! And the S T V 🧐
I just drove past the Fleetwood factory in Fleetwood PA
It's still standing.
Detroit Fleetwood plant was closed in 1987 and demolished in 1993. www.motorcities.org/southwest-detroit-auto-heritage-guide/fisher-body-fleetwood
I think that plant made the Fleetwood travel trailers no connect with General Motors.
The Fleetwood Brothers were known to make high quality wagons, then car bodies. GM bought the car bodies from PA, then bought the coach works.
@sociologynut8033 you mean the fisher Brothers ,,,aka fisher body
@@derekduchamp4603 The Fleetwood metal body co. Was purchased by Fisher in 1925. The Fleetwood metal body co. Building is still standing in Fleetwood PA.
I wish america will make cars like
This again
Better to watch this than crap reality shows on TV today lucky got you tube so people can post interesting footage
Oh i love the american automakers history!
I really wish to live at USA in the aera of 1950-70s, even because this is my favorite aera! (I'm 34, and from germany...but the present Auto industrie with the step back in the years 1900 with the f... Electric cars is a Bad Joke! The E-car is the biggest fail and step backward since the Auto was born....
But that's another story...
I think the best Auto industrie was the late 1960s. Even because the engines, especially the V8, the design and also styling was the best time for the Automobile ever.
And when I look at Fisher Body, my eyes gets gigger & my heart is pumping higher... Especially because i'm an Automotive Designer and Stylist. And with my eyes and feeling for good styling and design i can see that beauty and high level of producing cars.
Oh, i really really love that, that's the big magic of the american way of drive & live.....
Thanks for watching the video. I transferred it from an old VHS tape my father left me when he passed away in 2006. We were both employed at the Fisher Body-Fleetwood plant. He was an electrician. I worked on the assembly line for 14 years and transferred to the new "Poletown" plant for another 16 years. I retired with 30 years in 2000. I have to agree that those were the glory days of the automobile industry.
Cadillac was America's Icon car ..... in style....power ... and total class.....Cadillac ruled USA roads everywhere here....
@@paulparker3803 Hey Paul would love to talk? I was given a copy of that film when I visited Cadillac's Clark Street in '90 and '91 by a guy the worked at Hamtramck in the WCQC (World Class Quality Council), part of the UAW I think?
I toured that plant twice and got to know folk from both Clark Street and Fleetwood and listened to their great stories. Could we speak? I'm English and drive a '78 Seville Elegante, I've loved Cadillac over 45 years?
@@paulbedford7260 You can reach me at toto215@comcast.net.
@@paulbedford7260 Hi Paul I have a 79 Eligante,beautiful
Car production wasn’t moved to Poletown, it went to Arlington, TX primarily to reduce labor costs. The beginning of the end for mass assembly operations by GM in the City of Detroit.
Actually Arlington and Fleetwood both built the Fleetwood. GM was using whipsawing to affect local agreements, then decided to end production of the Fleetwood in Detroit, which had a rare process. The body was built at Fleetwood, then hauled by trucks to Clark St. for final assembly. GM announced the plant closing in 1987, in December laid off 2nd shift, then ended 1st shift in 1988. I worked there from 85 to 87.
@@sociologynut8033 Yes, I worked at Clark Street in ‘87. The UAW local leadership there was terrible and encouraged us to hold firm when Arlington was willing to accept lower wages to take on exclusive assembly of the Brougham. I voted against the grain-to accept lower wages to keep Cadillac’s built at Clark Street. Stubbornness cost people their jobs-full stop. I moved to Texas in ‘88 and retired from GM in ‘18 making full size SUVs at Arlington assembly.
@@sociologynut8033 It wasn't hauled by trucks, they both have a rail line that goes straight between them, cutting across town for a direct path. It was called the largest conveyer belt in the world. The same rail line is still used to move thousands of chassis from further plants.
@@fourdoorglory5945 Clark street also had all of Cadillac's white collar offices in it. The company considered expanding the engineering office and keeping the business offices there, but everyone wanted to work closer to their lake houses and not have to drive the 45 minutes to Detroit.
@@sociologynut8033me too I worked there also. Same time
Was it Herb Tarlek on WKRP who came up with the ad slogan, “Rolls-Royce: the Cadillac of Cars”?
nice
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What changed. The MBA's and Bachelor of Arts leadership.
I liked my Fisher Body built GM cars....but none has lasted as long as my Honda
At 19:02 - holy cow look at that panel gap between the hood and door.
Why did take so many years to put an enclosed passenger cab on the first cars rolling on the streets? Emagine people driving and riding to Sunday church in their finest clothes in the rain, snow, and cold weather. The horse drawn stage coach had a roof over the heads of the passengers. Why not the first vehicles?
Did car owners way back then only drive in nice sunny warm and dry days? Before the invention of cars, people walked everywhere with open umbrellas in inclement weather.
15:53 That’s when they hired Homer Simpson and the entire American car industry went downhill
Billy Joel, "Cadillacacacacac!!
18:01 they even employed bodybuilders
Wow look at all those pensioners.
I B 1 🚗🛻🚗🚗🚙🚕🚓
I'm getting my GM pension now! Retired at 53!
Interesting video, the first half was educational, the last half was propaganda. Who was GM and Cadillac kidding about the (lack of) quality in their product during the malaise era when this video was made. I bet this video was mandatory for all employees during all-hands meetings. I can hear the snoring…
Your assumptions are way off. I saw the videos of the history of this plant during my new hire 1 week orientation in 1985. Of the 7 GM and Chrysler plants that I worked at, this one was the oldest and most fun to work at.
We even made the Presidential limousines there.
SUV's are obscene pregnant station wagons. We want station wagons, auto makers! stop with the big ass butt cars already. They are not "sport" at all. Nobody takes a SUV off road.
Wow, they shitcanned the whole place 2 years later, and then nuked a another whole historical neighborhood on the other side of town, just so their new factory which was the same size as this factory could have a bigger parking lot.
Actually, the size of the parking lot didn't enter into the decision to build a new plant. The fact that the old system was way too costly to produce cars and make a profit led to the building of a new state-of-the-art auto plant. Still, it's sad to see a neighborhood destroyed even if it was a shit hole.
@@paulparker3803 it has nothing to do with the decision to make a new plant. They tore down an entire dense historic neighborhood to build the parking lot for the new factory. Today it's just empty space where pole town used to be, because they dont even have enough employees to fill the lot.
Actually, you're wrong. I worked at Fleetwood in the 80's, and retired from Poletown plant in 2017. The plant is over a million square feet, and has huge arrays of solar panels in the parking lots to provide power to the plant.
@@sociologynut8033 No, sorry, a half acre of dirty solar panels does not power a factory that size. The new factory's footprint is only about 10% larger than the old factory's footprint. You traded the entire Poletown neighborhood for a 10% larger factory, unused test track, and unused parking lot.
After watching this video, the way everything changed in the auto industry, namely Cadillac, people flocked to foreign car makers because the market wasn't there, that's why they built the Seville, then downsizing happened, management changed & not for the better at GM, products weren't great, & as the decades have gone by, American car buyers have still found foreign makes have still been the reason, everything has changed, now we're a world of SUV'S, etc, the American sedan is on its way out, EVs are on the way, & who knows what's in store for the future, will we be able to afford it, technology is one thing, cost is another, just drive by a car dealership & see how you don't have hardly anything in the lot, even the gal running GM doesn't feel it's not a bad thing about inventory, how can you drive what's available when it isn't sitting around for a test drive, you don't buy what you need & not see it, but that's just me!!!
19:50 Did he seriously call it the "commie network"? No wonder GM went down hill.
Commie meant communication in that case, not Communism. What an idiot…
Don't like it, don't show the most romantic time of a Cadillac cars,1948 up to 1953, the producer of this video do a failed presentation of this brand !
I grew up with big Buick Electras, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Chevrolets, and my first car was a Chevy Impala; from there, I've also owned a few Chryslers, but mostly my cars were Buicks, and EVERY car I've owned has been AMERICAN MADE and none were EVER Hondas or Toyotas...or any other foreign nameplate, for that matter, and they NEVER WILL be ANYTHING other than AMERICAN MADE.
After owning TWO bad Buick Park Avenues in a row, I eventually bought a total of TWO Cadillacs: MY FIRST AND MY LAST. I don't know about past quality, but those last 2 Buicks and that 2007 DTS were the BIGGEST LEMONS I've EVER had the displeasure of owning, and I'll guarantee one thing RIGHT here and RIGHT now: I'll NEVER own another Goddamned GM vehicle EVER AGAIN!
After I bailed on GM, I decided to try a Ford product, a Mercury Grand Marquis, and it was a good, solid, reliable car. I then decided to try my first Lincoln, and after 3 GREAT Town Cars, I've never looked back. After they discontinued the Town Car, I bought a Lincoln MKZ, yet another great, reliable car from Ford/Lincoln, but there was just something lacking in the seating and the ride quality, so I traded up to the 2020 Lincoln Continental, and both the ride quality and the comfort level, the seating in particular, is what I've come to expect from Lincoln.
Sadly, they're saying they won't be making any more sedans-for America, that is; they're still making sedans, but ONLY to be shipped OVERSEAS! The only Lincoln vehicles we can buy now are those Goddamned SUVs and ugly "Crossover" Lincolns; apparently, Americans are so Goddamned BIG and FAT, they CAN'T FIT inside a regular car, like a sedan, so SUVs are all they can waddle in and out of now.
So, little guys like me, who DON'T WANT a damned RV for a car, and who DON'T NEED some huge SUV TRUCK because we're not big fat pigs, we're NORMAL SIZE and height/weight proportionate, now we're going to be forced to have to buy these huge monstrosities. I guess the Japanese got at least one thing right: watch your weight, shun fast food and gluttony, and remain NORMAL SIZE....so you can still fit into a normal size car! I absolutely HATE what most American cars have become, but if you want to remain loyal to American made cars, well....you're going to be shunted into a Goddamned boxy SUV.
Why all the "Goddamning"? I have owned several DTSs 2006-2011& loved every one of them. Im about to acquire a 2009 DTS platinum edition finished in crystal red tintcoat. I will probably keep this one til they put me in the ground.