My dad worked their and was just able to get his 30yrs. in. He always had the hard jobs because he was a hard worker! One job he didn't like was the alliance windshields all leaked. He had to remove and reseal them. Anyway most all the people in that era are gone now R.I.P.
I'm in this video @ 2:40 waving my Bible. Over 40 years ago and I'm still going strong in The Lord at Word of Faith Family Church in Mount Pleasant, WI
Some quick facts on AMC engines: The 196" six is among the most durable six cylinder engines ever made...by anyone! The 287/327 V8s are the quietest & smoothest running eights ever...they too are nearly indestructible. The 199, 232 and 258 sixes are all 7 main bearing motors and, as such, will run virtually forever, with minimal care. The 290/304, 343/360 and 390/401 V8s are all "over-built" and highly sought after by collectors and engine builders everywhere. AMC lasted for 34 years, and during that time, they built many great cars...and some unusual ones too. And their engines were ALWAYS top notch. To those few uninformed individuals who still contend AMC bought their engines from Ford and General Motors...you couldn't be more wrong! AMC proudly designed and built every one of the above- mentioned engines. Long live the "Little Guy" from Kenosha!
The 232 6 and the 290 [ I recall it was a 289?] V8 along with the Rogue were the best things ever to come out of there. Grew up a few blocks away from the main plant. Bought my first 66 classic for $50 - missing a few windows.
@@ferrariguy6389 I don't believe transmissions were mentioned in this thread, just engines. They're actually two separate things. You probably wanted to comment to different thread.
@@ferrariguy6389 Borg Warner made the transmission. The M12 seemed to be ok if it wasn't abused. Unfortunately, it was not durable enough to take any abuse like the later Torqueflite could.
So for Quality Appreciation Day you appeared for 3 seconds in a internal corporate film employees would see perhaps once. Way to make people feel appreciated.
@@Acejustforalaugh Yes they did. I bought a '67 Camaro in 1972 and the frame was so badly rusted out the rear shocks punched up through the trunk. And a '71 Buick Riviera I bought in '75 that had duct tape hiding the rust holes in the rocker panels. Has it gotten any better? Yes. 50 years have passed and my 2000 Buick Century daily driver only has a little rust on the underside. Oops, I forgot about the 90's Ford Windstar that rusted out on the showroom floor.
The American auto industry was managed into the ground. Import restrictions allowed the big three to pawn off whatever garbage they could tack together onto the American people.
somewhere, sometime....in that factory....one of you built the 401 that is in my daughter's 71AMX. I thank you! In case you were wondering.....it still smokes the baloneys!
Looks like these folks actually enjoyed there job making some fine bullet proof engines that actually many are still running the roads still today. A better time in America sadly this plant is now gone,
This is so cool, my grandpa used to work here in the 60's and I currently own his 66 Rambler Rebel Classic. Currently rebuilding it on my channel if anyone is interested.
@@WAL_DC-6B I believe that was the smaller cylinder diameter version of the same block. There were some great straight sixes back in the day, Chrysler's 225 slant six and Chevrolet's 250 come to mind. I wish they'd make a comeback.
I love the expression on the line workers when they realize they're being filmed, some of the expressions are like "oh awesome, we're being filmed for a documentary", and the others are like "what the hell are you looking at asshole" LOL
Would like to see similar Japanese and Northern European engine assembly line films from the same period. Really liked the guy they caught napping. Hilarious.
We’re gonna try to bring the factory back. We’re sure that stelantis has to many brands and asking for AMC or Eagle shouldn’t be a problem. Especially when we buy power steering pumps and transmissions from Chrysler. We can purchase so much from ford and Chrysler all. We can build analogue cars with no microchips. Or a very small amount of microchips 90’s style.
10-4, now folks send their $$$ to the COMMUNISTS with the big 3 having plants there, I'm NOT buying anymore new cars, rebuilding and upgrading my old stuff when needed.
It was government mandates and DC's unholy alliance with the Big 3 that marginalized AMC-- the "Little Automaker That Could"-- to the point that even Renault couldn't make a go of it. Hopefully if any of the people in this video are still working, Chrysler treats them well,
Most all those in this video are in the big factory in the sky now. The last thing Chrysler did in Kenosha was build engines in the Main plant, or a corner of it and maintain the head offices. All the rest of at least 40 acres of buildings were vacant. Now, the whole damn place is a barren field. Sad demise of a great company. The straight 6 232ci was one of the worlds great, reliable engines.
Interestingly enough it was Democrats in Wisconsin that pushed to have AMC classified as a small business this all came out in the late 70s when Lee iacocca went to the government to beg for money for Chrysler once he had pointed that out they really had no choice but to give Chrysler the bailout money!! AMC also had received numerous tax breaks as a result of being declared a small business and also they had plenty of government work available through their division called AM general which was there bus heavy truck and military division!! AMC also manufactured refrigerators until 1968 when they sold kelvinator to Electrolux... they also had manufactured wheel horse lawn mowers until the very early 80s!! AMC wasn't exactly small but it's true they didn't necessarily always have the deep pockets that the other automakers had!!
Would be nice to know the YEAR this was produced, I'm sure some of the workers or their children or grandchildren would like to see their relative working.
Ha ha, yeah! The old sx/4 . My brother had one of those. That thing was really cool. One of the first on the fly all wheel drive systems. A little vacuum lever inside the cab to engage your front wheels along with the rear wheels. Before that, you had to get out and turn a thing on your wheel hub that would lock your hubs.
Engine plants today have 1/4 the humans and look like operating rooms. But these guys turned out a great product and the tooling as you see was much that of today, just a bit less refined.
Vehicles are literally built to fall apart now.Made well enough and just enough to make it past the warranty,it's planned obsolescence to build a dependent customer that can be milked of their cash.
@@TheGhjgjgjgjgjg All my AMC cars rusted apart and fell apart, but they too made it through the warranty, maybe 2 years or 25,000 miles. Now you at least get 100k miles before cars disintegrate. Kudos to AMC for the original Subaru, the Eagle. Way ahead of its time
Robert King I had a number of Ramblers in the 70's. Started out with a 1968 Rebel with a 4bbl carby on a 290 V8. Then went backwards with a couple of '67 Americans with 232 sixes then finished with a 1963 American convertible with a 195 in it. There were reputed to be six of these in Australia. I sold it because body panels and glass would have been impossible to obtain and in those days Ramblers were worth practically nothing. My dad bought a new 1972 Hornet with a 258. What a beauty; flared guards, the widest tyres I had ever seen on a road car, black upholstery and red/orange paint. He had that car until he died in 1989. Boy did it go. Sad to say all of these are long gone, but the convertible is still possibly in Adelaide. It is a long time since I have seen a Rambler on Australian roads. Ramblers in Australia were imported CKD and re-assembled in Melbourne by AMI, Australian Motor Industries. I guess they weere fitted with locally made tyres and battery. Each of their cars bore a little AMI badge on the bottom of the front mudguards. I still have a soft spot for my old Ramblers, but ciumstances at the time dictated that they had to go and life still goes on.
Robert King they were pretty reliable and easy to fix, too. In the 1980's an AMC was worth nothing (except for an AMX) and you could buy therm for little money.
I believe it was a 1972 top of the line Ambassador my parents had, my dad got me chuckling one summer day when he turned on the AC, he said dang it's like I threw a anchor out the window.
We can bring back Matador can be our Taurus. javelin our mustang. Pacer our Honda Civic Vision our 4 door highway cruiser luxobarge. And we can make a matador X as our SUV crossover. Or just a new 🦅
I work in an engine building factory, and it's cool to see what's changed over the years as far as the process on the assembly line and what has stayed the same
No, just building the toughest most reliable engines in America to later be put in cars branded by the most innovative, consumer friendly automaker this country had ever seen.
my dad has a cameo @ 1:45. i bet in his wildest dreams he never thought he would have been a youtube star. RIP dad.
My condolences, friend.
Your dad....and the AMC's live on!
My dad worked their and was just able to get his 30yrs. in. He always had the hard jobs because he was a hard worker! One job he didn't like was the alliance windshields all leaked. He had to remove and reseal them. Anyway most all the people in that era are gone now R.I.P.
And their Engines are still going strong, thank you for all the good Work from the Engine Plant.
I'm in this video @ 2:40 waving my Bible. Over 40 years ago and I'm still going strong in The Lord at Word of Faith Family Church in Mount Pleasant, WI
You looked happy at your work
God bless you, we want to bring the factories back. We don’t need the Brampton plant Detroit and Kenosha AMC or Eagle.
Some quick facts on AMC engines: The 196" six is among the most durable six cylinder engines
ever made...by anyone! The 287/327 V8s are the quietest & smoothest running eights ever...they too
are nearly indestructible. The 199, 232 and 258 sixes are all 7 main bearing motors and, as such, will
run virtually forever, with minimal care. The 290/304, 343/360 and 390/401 V8s are all "over-built" and
highly sought after by collectors and engine builders everywhere. AMC lasted for 34 years, and during
that time, they built many great cars...and some unusual ones too. And their engines were ALWAYS top
notch. To those few uninformed individuals who still contend AMC bought their engines from Ford and
General Motors...you couldn't be more wrong! AMC proudly designed and built every one of the above-
mentioned engines. Long live the "Little Guy" from Kenosha!
The 232 6 and the 290 [ I recall it was a 289?] V8 along with the Rogue were the best things ever to come out of there. Grew up a few blocks away from the main plant. Bought my first 66 classic for $50 - missing a few windows.
The 1970 M12 transmission was a P.O.S.
@@ferrariguy6389
I don't believe transmissions were mentioned in this thread, just engines. They're actually two separate things. You probably wanted to comment to different thread.
@@ferrariguy6389 Borg Warner made the transmission. The M12 seemed to be ok if it wasn't abused. Unfortunately, it was not durable enough to take any abuse like the later Torqueflite could.
@@jasondaniel1586 not all the transmissions in fact AMC more so had Chrysler transmissions than any other!
So for Quality Appreciation Day you appeared for 3 seconds in a internal corporate film employees would see perhaps once. Way to make people feel appreciated.
AMC built great engines. The cars had more ergonomic interiors than most but the exterior rusted prematurely.
I'm surprised to hear that, they were known to be made of galvanized steel with a no rust-through warranty
@@Acejustforalaugh Yes they did. I bought a '67 Camaro in 1972 and the frame was so badly rusted out the rear shocks punched up through the trunk. And a '71 Buick Riviera I bought in '75 that had duct tape hiding the rust holes in the rocker panels. Has it gotten any better? Yes. 50 years have passed and my 2000 Buick Century daily driver only has a little rust on the underside. Oops, I forgot about the 90's Ford Windstar that rusted out on the showroom floor.
@@atarigames that didnt happen until 1979 galvanized metal
Good folks making good cars..
The American auto industry was managed into the ground. Import restrictions allowed the big three to pawn off whatever garbage they could tack together onto the American people.
For those who know, the legend lives on.
somewhere, sometime....in that factory....one of you built the 401 that is in my daughter's 71AMX. I thank you! In case you were wondering.....it still smokes the baloneys!
Looks like these folks actually enjoyed there job making some fine bullet proof engines that actually many are still running the roads still today. A better time in America sadly this plant is now gone,
This is so cool, my grandpa used to work here in the 60's and I currently own his 66 Rambler Rebel Classic. Currently rebuilding it on my channel if anyone is interested.
Vincent Cruz I have one and it's awesome
258 cid 7 main bearing straight 6
The King!
I understand AMC's 232 inline six was a pretty robust engine.
@@WAL_DC-6B I believe that was the smaller cylinder diameter version of the same block. There were some great straight sixes back in the day, Chrysler's 225 slant six and Chevrolet's 250 come to mind. I wish they'd make a comeback.
@@BELCAN57 I have a Hudson 262 L-head engine in my Hudson Super Wasp. Wish that'd come back too!
I love the expression on the line workers when they realize they're being filmed, some of the expressions are like "oh awesome, we're being filmed for a documentary", and the others are like "what the hell are you looking at asshole" LOL
Back when you were allowed to smoke while working.
Yep. Back then you could spray paint in the paint shop without goggles or respirator. And OSHA back then was a denim coverall company.
Would like to see similar Japanese and Northern European engine assembly line films from the same period. Really liked the guy they caught napping. Hilarious.
We’re gonna try to bring the factory back.
We’re sure that stelantis has to many brands and asking for AMC or Eagle shouldn’t be a problem. Especially when we buy power steering pumps and transmissions from Chrysler. We can purchase so much from ford and Chrysler all. We can build analogue cars with no microchips. Or a very small amount of microchips 90’s style.
Make it happen. My 84' Eagle needs some new American made parts and not that chineseium bs!
Who is "we"?
To bad what has happened to AMC and to our industrial base in this country in general we have been sold out!
10-4, now folks send their $$$ to the COMMUNISTS with the big 3 having plants there, I'm NOT buying anymore new cars, rebuilding and upgrading my old stuff when needed.
What do you mean? I do not my pickup was built in Fort Wayne Indiana and our Malibu built in Kansas city Missouri
@@REVNUMANEWBERN Actually, now folks send their $$$ to AUTHORITARIAN countries (the only true Communist country is N. Korea).
Love the cigarettes slopping out of the mouthes of many of the engine builders 😂😂
Good UNION JOBS GONE. SAD.
Neat video, not a pair of safety glasses in the building
It is an amazing and wonderful thing. Old cars had little reliance on machines, but they gave us the most powerful engines ❤
It was government mandates and DC's unholy alliance with the Big 3 that marginalized AMC-- the "Little Automaker That Could"-- to the point that even Renault couldn't make a go of it. Hopefully if any of the people in this video are still working, Chrysler treats them well,
Most all those in this video are in the big factory in the sky now. The last thing Chrysler did in Kenosha was build engines in the Main plant, or a corner of it and maintain the head offices. All the rest of at least 40 acres of buildings were vacant. Now, the whole damn place is a barren field. Sad demise of a great company. The straight 6 232ci was one of the worlds great, reliable engines.
@@RRaucina don't forget the 258 inline 6!!
@@American-Motors-Corporation Never had one - was that in the Cherokee up to 2000? the 290 or 289 V-8 was a keeper too.
Thanks to creeps like Ted Kennedy and Joan Claybrook.
Interestingly enough it was Democrats in Wisconsin that pushed to have AMC classified as a small business this all came out in the late 70s when Lee iacocca went to the government to beg for money for Chrysler once he had pointed that out they really had no choice but to give Chrysler the bailout money!!
AMC also had received numerous tax breaks as a result of being declared a small business and also they had plenty of government work available through their division called AM general which was there bus heavy truck and military division!!
AMC also manufactured refrigerators until 1968 when they sold kelvinator to Electrolux... they also had manufactured wheel horse lawn mowers until the very early 80s!!
AMC wasn't exactly small but it's true they didn't necessarily always have the deep pockets that the other automakers had!!
Good old days when you could chooch some cigs on the line and wash it down with Irish coffee, have a sixer for lunch.
❤️my 258 I-6
💪🏻 ⚙️
Would be nice to know the YEAR this was produced, I'm sure some of the workers or their children or grandchildren would like to see their relative working.
At the beginning of the video is a picture of a 1980 SX/4 which would date this around late 79 or 1980
Ha ha, yeah! The old sx/4 . My brother had one of those. That thing was really cool. One of the first on the fly all wheel drive systems. A little vacuum lever inside the cab to engage your front wheels along with the rear wheels. Before that, you had to get out and turn a thing on your wheel hub that would lock your hubs.
At 3:34 there’s a guy wearing a shirt that says “AMC 1818”. Does anyone know what “1818” meant?
Engine plants today have 1/4 the humans and look like operating rooms. But these guys turned out a great product and the tooling as you see was much that of today, just a bit less refined.
Vehicles are literally built to fall apart now.Made well enough and just enough to make it past the warranty,it's planned obsolescence to build a dependent customer that can be milked of their cash.
@@TheGhjgjgjgjgjg All my AMC cars rusted apart and fell apart, but they too made it through the warranty, maybe 2 years or 25,000 miles. Now you at least get 100k miles before cars disintegrate. Kudos to AMC for the original Subaru, the Eagle. Way ahead of its time
Great video. Too bad AMC did not survive.
They put up a pretty good fight, though.
Snake Plissken
Robert King
I had a number of Ramblers in the 70's. Started out with a 1968 Rebel with a 4bbl
carby on a 290 V8. Then went backwards with a couple of '67 Americans with 232 sixes then finished with a 1963 American convertible with a 195 in it. There were reputed to be six of these in Australia. I sold it because body panels and glass would have been impossible to obtain and in those days Ramblers were worth practically nothing. My dad bought a new 1972 Hornet with a 258. What a beauty; flared guards, the widest tyres I had ever seen on a road car, black upholstery and red/orange paint. He had that car until he died in 1989. Boy did it go.
Sad to say all of these are long gone, but the convertible is still possibly in Adelaide.
It is a long time since I have seen a Rambler on Australian roads.
Ramblers in Australia were imported CKD and re-assembled in Melbourne by AMI,
Australian Motor Industries. I guess they weere fitted with locally made tyres and battery. Each of their cars bore a little AMI badge on the bottom of the front mudguards.
I still have a soft spot for my old Ramblers, but ciumstances at the time dictated that they had to go and life still goes on.
Robert King they were pretty reliable and easy to fix, too. In the 1980's an AMC was worth nothing (except for an AMX) and you could buy therm for little money.
I believe it was a 1972 top of the line Ambassador my parents had, my dad got me chuckling one summer day when he turned on the AC, he said dang it's like I threw a anchor out the window.
Lee Iaccoca prez of Chrysler at the time is the one who stabled AMC in the back, by buying AMC -then shutting it down!
He really just wanted Jeep, but he did give several more years to Kenosha before the lights went out.
At 4:04 did that guy insult that employee?
Some of these workers are not wearing safety glasses!
That's because they actually know what they're doing. lol.
DID THEY MAKE ENGINES FOR INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER TURCKS?
I didn't know AMC made any engines, I thought they purchase from other OEMs like Ford
Now I know why my goddamned valve cover leaked.....
Cheddar heads in action!
Good company
We can bring back Matador can be our Taurus.
javelin our mustang. Pacer our Honda Civic
Vision our 4 door highway cruiser luxobarge.
And we can make a matador X as our SUV crossover. Or just a new 🦅
Straightening a crankshaft with a big hammer. Thats what Im talking about. Those engines are tough though and I own a few still
I work in an engine building factory, and it's cool to see what's changed over the years as far as the process on the assembly line and what has stayed the same
Ah for the day when you could smoke on the assembly line!
Great vid, I've owned 3 that came out of this plant, top notch!
And at that plant, drink too. Found a half pint bottle in the door of my Hornet.
THIS is what made USA Great!!!!!
When i was young, i visited the factory for a stage at the Renault division this is was magical
Great editing work, killer tune, this rocks!
The footage looked like the the 70's .1974 looks to be the year based on Manuel Lozano's comment.
Hopefully they got a copy of this video all these people
Not one robot, no wonder AMC didn't survive.😮
Not much for safety glasses or hearing protection where they?
Javelin amx are fkn cool !!!
No, just building the toughest most reliable engines in America to later be put in cars branded by the most innovative, consumer friendly automaker this country had ever seen.
Eh? Louder please!