It's a treat to see how cars were made 50 years! This film is very similar to the one that Chrysler had produced way back in 1955... "Wishes on Wheels".
That was so cool!! I love all these factory films Growing up in Cleveland, they were part of our lives Dad owned a few of those woody wagons Thanks for sharing JT Orlando Florida
It was even MORE amazing, back when this film was made..... And about 125,000 well paid Employees and 3 or 4 Robots built these cars - and many others - in AMERICA! Instead of NOW. Thanks to "technology", "innovation", and pure UAW Union GREED with Corporate Management A STUPIDITY.... ~ Only a handful of people, in less than 10% of the US-Based Factories than we USED to have - and about 50,000 ROBOTS, now build those Cars. Thanks to Government OVER-Regulation, comparable Cars Today sell for *8 to TWELVE TIMES as much money* as they did back in 1970. Meanwhile, *Our Salaries* have only increased between *Four and Eight times* since 1970..... SOMETHING is definitely wrong with that!! Also, for those who will say "But we have things like Airbags and Anti-Lock Brakes now" *Chew on this....* GM has had fuel injected Engines since 1957!! They had a Turbocharged 6cyl in 1965! They had a lightweight, all Aluminum V8, that was even reasonably fuel efficient, in 1962!! (But with the 3.5L Aluminum V8, GM was short sighted, stupid or BOTH - and sold the entire Engine and manufacturing Dies and Tooling to ROVER, in England!!!) Ford and Chrysler had working AIRBAGS as early as 1966!!! Ford had ABS by 1973! SO you should ask - *WHY* did it take until 1980 to get fuel injection, 1986 to only START to see Anti-Lock Brakes in American Cars?? *And WHY* did it take until about 1990 for American Cars to get AIRBAGS as standard equipment??? Not unreasonable questions, right? There's several reasons. The biggest - Washington LOBBYISTS. Some thought that the extra safety features would imply that our cars were UNSAFE in the first place!! Oil Company Lobbies didn't want things like Fuel Injection, Aluminum V8s, or Turbos raising the fuel economy of Cars - causing us to not need as much of THEIR FUEL!! ..... And nobody in DC wanted to hear ANYTHING about how more efficient and powerful Engines would be LESS polluting to the Air. There were also Aftermarket Manufacturers Lobbying against that, because they would lose a fortune in add-on, horribly inefficient and power robbing Emission Controls from 1968 thru 1996, when OBD-II Computer Controls FINALLY gave us top efficiency, maximum horsepower AND clean air - WITHOUT the old tangled mess of vacuum hoses and ridiculous add-on equipment!! So... as Usual, it came down to inept, corrupt Government Politics and Corporate GREED.
We Need More Vids Like This Today , My Dad Worked For Oldsmobile For 30 Years. I Remember Takeing A Tour Though The Main Plant With Him At Lansing Mich In The 1960s There Seemed To Be A Differant Person For Almost Every Part. Lots And Lots Of Employees. Long Before Robots.
Great videos I worked at a GM plant for 3 years before being laid off. Nowadays there are so many robots it has taken the folks out of the picture. I am also a disabled vet and these videos will help with my depression . Thanks
Fords of all types have been my best vehicles overall since my 1950 Fordor Custom. Some may have been flashier (GM) and some may have had a performance advantage (Chrysler), but overall, Fords have been my best value...for 51 years.
As I watch this Ford quality video, I am reminded of seeing a, then, new 1975 Ford LTD with a trunk lid that was installed crooked and nothing lined up. Some quality.
This is from around 1972-3. It was a tough and challenging time for US automakers due to government requirements for emissions and crash standards. One of the byproducts of those things was poorer performance compared to 60s models. Also, it meant less fuel mileage too. All this was 'ok', that is until the bottom fell out in the fal of 1973 with the 1st arab oil embargo.
@@Greatdome99 Parts of the film may have been pieced together, however, for sure some of the cars being crash tested are definitely 71's, also there is a clip of a 72 Torino Station Wagon and a GT Fastback. There is an assortment of models in one scene that are all 72's on a factory lot, and the final scene shows a newly finished 73 LTD.
the '73 full sized Fords and Mercurys got completely new window sealing, with large soft rubber, and it was a great improvement, in virtually eliminating wind leaks.
They are showing 1973 New Car Development in beginning, and Driving onto the auto-rack at the end....But the assembly line stuff 18 minutes in and beyond...is 1972 Cars, 19:43 is looks like 351C's getting push rods on the line, and a 351C getting spun over without heads....21:55 is a 1972 2-door hardtop / then a split second of a 4-door sedan...
My 1972 Ford pinto hatchback was known to explode upon rear impact. You can build a fire For a man and he’s warm for a day, you can set a man on fire and he’s hot Ford the rest of his life ! I loved that little car.
Shows how the modern automotive assembly line absorbs 15,000 parts from foundries, glass plants, engine plants, stamping plants and other manufacturing facilities, and produces a precision machine.
ManInTheBigHat That was a low point, for sure. Cars are the best they have ever been, now, I think. (Which is not to say they are the most beautiful they have ever been.)
the requirements that the Government was pouring on...more and more every year in those days made it very difficult for the Automobile companies to make all required engineering changes, especially for anti-pollution, to both cars and plants, while still trying to keep quality up. It was very difficult indeed.
LOL...the Japanese didn't have any problem with "our" regulations,so why would GM or FORD?? Bottom line is GM thought they could go on for decades moving the tail lights around and jacking the price each year. When the imports showed up,they got their collective arses handed to them.
This is a fascinating look at auto production at a time when American automobile manufacturers nearly put themselves out of business building sloppy, overweight, and obsolete designs while claiming they were building what customers wanted. They weren’t; the 1970s were an open invitation to foreign automakers such as Toyota to show Americans that efficient, reliable and durable cars didn’t come from Detroit. Increasing emissions requirements were often blamed, yet even at the time it was said that when it came to new safety and air pollution rules, the Big Three went to court and the Japanese went back to their drawing boards. The apparent disregard for worker safety might be the most disconcerting part of this film. How is it that Ford had all sorts of fancy gadgets to purportedly study parts reliability but workers were spraying paint and working lead with no protection? There is a 1930s auto production film on You Tube that shows unprotected workers painting engines in a cloud of fumes. Forty years later, as seen in this film, the industry still doesn’t admit to the risk? Yes, we were told the big lie that cigarettes were safe, and plenty of people believed it. Maybe they were the ones inhaling paint particles in this film. In retrospect, this production is a cautionary tale, one that has Ford saying “we make good cars, we really do, honest” when in fact the failure to modernize production facilities, vehicle design and worker protection - at the expense of corporate profits - lay at the heart of what were to become extremely difficult times. There were people in the organization who were sounding the alarm. They were right. Ford and rest of Detroit have spent decades clawing back some of the reputation lost in the years depicted here.
I have seen 70s American cars with 2.k. miles.. it's how you take care of the car. People beat the shit out of 70s cars .because they were cheap. Especially the steelworkers . They worked like machines and did not have time to even wash a car. 21 turns .I don't know how they did it. What a f. Up life. 7 to 3. 3to11. 11to7.+..over time.. my dad did it because he loved us. R.I.P. DAD.
Dan Turke for State House Representatives 2018..John Golan and myself are already talking to Unions.. it's time to Bring Michigan Back...I hope this sets in your heart as well as mine..my family were all in the auto business...I am a UAW kid..D
Up until they started building cars out of plastic, an internal combustion powered vehicle was 95-100% recyclable! It takes 5 times more energy to mfg a electric production vehicle and no one is talking about what to do with those spent Lithium / Ion batteries after they are exhausted every 10 years.
Just read an article today about Lithium battery recycling centers in the US. One huge plant in the SE and another in NV. Article stated that the batteries are highly recyclable..
MrDjh66 well you could have came to my house and had a backyard jump the fence and you would have been at the Norwood Assembly Plant my father worked there for 37 years and built your trans Am it took 18 hours start to finish. and yes your car was built by masters of the auto ind. Norwood was Han selected to build them and you have bodies because they wanted the best plant in the system to build them and that was the Norwood plant and we got f***** here in Norwood
I know people are upset that so many of these jobs have been eliminated by robots and computers today, but watching this video is a very clear reminder of the inefficiencies of the old way of doing things. Hand pushing the bodies on the racks to stations after paint? Lifting and manually installing the dashboard with no robotic assistance? Installing the windshields by hand? All time consuming, labor intensive, and makes very inconsistent quality. Installing the dash on a car today can be done by one person with a hydraulic lift assistant which also keeps the dashboard clean and free of possible damage. Today cars are painted right on the line and that keeps the bodies rolling on the line in perfect order without having to roll them around by hand. Laser guided robots install windshields with perfect, pin-point precision each and every time.
even though i am a peugeot 605 owner and peugeot fan, i like these '70's american cars just for being diffent, they were giants when compared to european, and had their own oiginal style, what i dont like are japanese, korean,chinese cars
Gio048: I bought (as a novelty)a 74 Coupe Deville....like 2 years ago. I can say after tinkering with it, the build-quality,tolerances,etc. of the Caddy is a joke....it's why (then and now)the Big 3 have a difficult time finding-duping Retail buyers to purchase their shit beyond: Government,Fleet, and Rental companies....vehicles the Retail buying public does not want. By the mid-sixties, North American consumers were already turning their backs on Detroit.....because they largely produced sub-par products compared to the Foreign competition.
This film is a lie!!! See, when a mommy car and a daddy car really love each other, they kiss each other in a special way, and then, after many months, a car is born. Some truths are hard to swallow, but they're truth nonetheless. 😂
It's a treat to see how cars were made 50 years! This film is very similar to the one that Chrysler had produced way back in 1955... "Wishes on Wheels".
That was so cool!!
I love all these factory films
Growing up in Cleveland, they were part of our lives
Dad owned a few of those woody wagons
Thanks for sharing
JT Orlando Florida
Why am I so obsessed with the car assembly line? Its amazing.
It was even MORE amazing, back when this film was made.....
And about 125,000 well paid Employees and 3 or 4 Robots built these cars - and many others - in AMERICA!
Instead of NOW. Thanks to "technology", "innovation", and pure UAW Union GREED with Corporate Management A STUPIDITY....
~ Only a handful of people, in less than 10% of the US-Based Factories than we USED to have - and about 50,000 ROBOTS, now build those Cars.
Thanks to Government OVER-Regulation, comparable Cars Today sell for *8 to TWELVE TIMES as much money* as they did back in 1970.
Meanwhile, *Our Salaries* have only increased between *Four and Eight times* since 1970.....
SOMETHING is definitely wrong with that!!
Also, for those who will say "But we have things like Airbags and Anti-Lock Brakes now"
*Chew on this....*
GM has had fuel injected Engines since 1957!! They had a Turbocharged 6cyl in 1965! They had a lightweight, all Aluminum V8, that was even reasonably fuel efficient, in 1962!! (But with the 3.5L Aluminum V8, GM was short sighted, stupid or BOTH - and sold the entire Engine and manufacturing Dies and Tooling to ROVER, in England!!!)
Ford and Chrysler had working AIRBAGS as early as 1966!!!
Ford had ABS by 1973!
SO you should ask - *WHY* did it take until 1980 to get fuel injection, 1986 to only START to see Anti-Lock Brakes in American Cars??
*And WHY* did it take until about 1990 for American Cars to get AIRBAGS as standard equipment???
Not unreasonable questions, right?
There's several reasons. The biggest - Washington LOBBYISTS. Some thought that the extra safety features would imply that our cars were UNSAFE in the first place!! Oil Company Lobbies didn't want things like Fuel Injection, Aluminum V8s, or Turbos raising the fuel economy of Cars - causing us to not need as much of THEIR FUEL!!
..... And nobody in DC wanted to hear ANYTHING about how more efficient and powerful Engines would be LESS polluting to the Air.
There were also Aftermarket Manufacturers Lobbying against that, because they would lose a fortune in add-on, horribly inefficient and power robbing Emission Controls from 1968 thru 1996, when OBD-II Computer Controls FINALLY gave us top efficiency, maximum horsepower AND clean air - WITHOUT the old tangled mess of vacuum hoses and ridiculous add-on equipment!!
So... as Usual, it came down to inept, corrupt Government Politics and Corporate GREED.
TuneStunnaMusic me to
same here
Am with you on that men!
Great video! Thanks!
We Need More Vids Like This Today , My Dad Worked For Oldsmobile For 30 Years. I Remember Takeing A Tour Though The Main Plant With Him At Lansing Mich In The 1960s There Seemed To Be A Differant Person For Almost Every Part. Lots And Lots Of Employees. Long Before Robots.
And why do you think robots were brought in? Because robots don't go on strike.
Great videos I worked at a GM plant for 3 years before being laid off. Nowadays there are so many robots it has taken the folks out of the picture. I am also a disabled vet and these videos will help with my depression . Thanks
yes the new tesla plants they are getting rid of basically every human, only a few are left now. watch the video on the tesla plants
That and the outsourcing of jobs to China and Mexico. At least President Trump tried to get s a fair deal!
That's been 70 + years. Now there is not enough of anything produced here to outsource anymore.@@jaminova_1969
Fords of all types have been my best vehicles overall since my 1950 Fordor Custom. Some may have been flashier (GM) and some may have had a performance advantage (Chrysler), but overall, Fords have been my best value...for 51 years.
😂
I wish they still made cars that floated like those early '70s Fords.
Have this exact copy LTD being developed here. . quiet and smooth riding.
As I watch this Ford quality video, I am reminded of seeing a, then, new 1975 Ford LTD with a trunk lid that was installed crooked and nothing lined up. Some quality.
Very nice video, impressive, love American car till now, I never bought foreign car.
This is from around 1972-3. It was a tough and challenging time for US automakers due to government requirements for emissions and crash standards. One of the byproducts of those things was poorer performance compared to 60s models. Also, it meant less fuel mileage too. All this was 'ok', that is until the bottom fell out in the fal of 1973 with the 1st arab oil embargo.
1:30 Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range RR SD38 loco #201 was built in 1967, so the film is younger that that.
@@Greatdome99 Parts of the film may have been pieced together, however, for sure some of the cars being crash tested are definitely 71's, also there is a clip of a 72 Torino Station Wagon and a GT Fastback. There is an assortment of models in one scene that are all 72's on a factory lot, and the final scene shows a newly finished 73 LTD.
the '73 full sized Fords and Mercurys got completely new window sealing, with large soft rubber, and it was a great improvement, in virtually eliminating wind leaks.
"To be stopped on a dime." - skids 60 feet.
How much did they crash test the pinto?
1:24 Making Taconite out of raw iron ore. Taconite is concentrated iron ore.
Such a groovy show
My 79 Ranchero was the best ford I ever had in my 50 plus years of owning fords.
I guess I know why my 84 ranger is still on the road :)
They are showing 1973 New Car Development in beginning, and Driving onto the auto-rack at the end....But the assembly line stuff 18 minutes in and beyond...is 1972 Cars, 19:43 is looks like 351C's getting push rods on the line, and a 351C getting spun over without heads....21:55 is a 1972 2-door hardtop / then a split second of a 4-door sedan...
My 1972 Ford pinto hatchback was known to explode upon rear impact. You can build a fire For a man and he’s warm for a day, you can set a man on fire and he’s hot Ford the rest of his life ! I loved that little car.
Shows how the modern automotive assembly line absorbs 15,000 parts from foundries, glass plants, engine plants, stamping plants and other manufacturing facilities, and produces a precision machine.
It's interesting to see how the auto industry worked back then
Interesting, all this research for improvement at exactly the era that the American Car slid in quality.
ManInTheBigHat That was a low point, for sure. Cars are the best they have ever been, now, I think. (Which is not to say they are the most beautiful they have ever been.)
Cars are the most practical they have ever been. The most reliable. But they lack soul.
the requirements that the Government was pouring on...more and more every year in those days made it very difficult for the Automobile companies to make all required engineering changes, especially for anti-pollution, to both cars and plants, while still trying to keep quality up. It was very difficult indeed.
exactly
LOL...the Japanese didn't have any problem with "our" regulations,so why would GM or FORD?? Bottom line is GM thought they could go on for decades moving the tail lights around and jacking the price each year. When the imports showed up,they got their collective arses handed to them.
This is a fascinating look at auto production at a time when American automobile manufacturers nearly put themselves out of business building sloppy, overweight, and obsolete designs while claiming they were building what customers wanted. They weren’t; the 1970s were an open invitation to foreign automakers such as Toyota to show Americans that efficient, reliable and durable cars didn’t come from Detroit. Increasing emissions requirements were often blamed, yet even at the time it was said that when it came to new safety and air pollution rules, the Big Three went to court and the Japanese went back to their drawing boards. The apparent disregard for worker safety might be the most disconcerting part of this film. How is it that Ford had all sorts of fancy gadgets to purportedly study parts reliability but workers were spraying paint and working lead with no protection? There is a 1930s auto production film on You Tube that shows unprotected workers painting engines in a cloud of fumes. Forty years later, as seen in this film, the industry still doesn’t admit to the risk? Yes, we were told the big lie that cigarettes were safe, and plenty of people believed it. Maybe they were the ones inhaling paint particles in this film.
In retrospect, this production is a cautionary tale, one that has Ford saying “we make good cars, we really do, honest” when in fact the failure to modernize production facilities, vehicle design and worker protection - at the expense of corporate profits - lay at the heart of what were to become extremely difficult times. There were people in the organization who were sounding the alarm. They were right. Ford and rest of Detroit have spent decades clawing back some of the reputation lost in the years depicted here.
I have seen 70s American cars with 2.k. miles.. it's how you take care of the car. People beat the shit out of 70s cars .because they were cheap. Especially the steelworkers . They worked like machines and did not have time to even wash a car. 21 turns .I don't know how they did it. What a f. Up life. 7 to 3. 3to11. 11to7.+..over time.. my dad did it because he loved us. R.I.P. DAD.
Dan Turke for State House Representatives 2018..John Golan and myself are already talking to Unions.. it's time to Bring Michigan Back...I hope this sets in your heart as well as mine..my family were all in the auto business...I am a UAW kid..D
Up until they started building cars out of plastic, an internal combustion powered vehicle was 95-100% recyclable! It takes 5 times more energy to mfg a electric production vehicle and no one is talking about what to do with those spent Lithium / Ion batteries after they are exhausted every 10 years.
Just read an article today about Lithium battery recycling centers in the US. One huge plant in the SE and another in NV. Article stated that the batteries are highly recyclable..
I would of loved to watch my 73 transam being made start to finish
MrDjh66 well you could have came to my house and had a backyard jump the fence and you would have been at the Norwood Assembly Plant my father worked there for 37 years and built your trans Am it took 18 hours start to finish. and yes your car was built by masters of the auto ind. Norwood was Han selected to build them and you have bodies because they wanted the best plant in the system to build them and that was the Norwood plant and we got f***** here in Norwood
Look for a film called “Pontiac Pours it on” First saw it in HS Automotive class
Ok thank you
Well that can true because many are alike when you're doing fleet services
Slingin lead with no mask!
I know people are upset that so many of these jobs have been eliminated by robots and computers today, but watching this video is a very clear reminder of the inefficiencies of the old way of doing things. Hand pushing the bodies on the racks to stations after paint? Lifting and manually installing the dashboard with no robotic assistance? Installing the windshields by hand? All time consuming, labor intensive, and makes very inconsistent quality.
Installing the dash on a car today can be done by one person with a hydraulic lift assistant which also keeps the dashboard clean and free of possible damage. Today cars are painted right on the line and that keeps the bodies rolling on the line in perfect order without having to roll them around by hand. Laser guided robots install windshields with perfect, pin-point precision each and every time.
I notice a lack of Pintos in Ford's crash test videos from the Era.
Jack Telnack.. the father of the Ford Taurus and aeordynamic design in the US
Shows how the modern automotive assembly line . . . produces a precision machine.
I prefer Ford’s 1972 lineup to that for 1973.
Specially the trucks!
Particles smaller than the atom? Really?
7:23 - '72 GRAN TORINO!
even though i am a peugeot 605 owner and peugeot fan, i like these '70's american cars just for being diffent, they were giants when compared to european, and had their own oiginal style, what i dont like are japanese, korean,chinese cars
Painted Body rap. Fast forward 2023 Now clear bra on cars. 😂
Many of the designs of the cars were better looking than what actually came out.😂
Muito interessante o vídeo.
Looks like this fascinating film was made in the early '70's. Pretty much the beginning of a terrible 10+ years of US car design.
Sometimes I wonder if these car makers get their "public input" from mental hospitals or homeless shelters...
WOW
22:08 any vacancies..?
Fords are the best
At falling apart! 😑 🚙
Fix or repair daily. Drive mopar and you will never get stranded
To bad they stopped following this follicles
1972 Ford Ltd s being made it looks like, or close anyway.
All this is lost. When you destroy a car. All the manufacturing energy. Fixing a car is the best way to recycle it. .
And Now AI Robots
And they still rusted ! 😂
We need a man like Trump to turn this country around and make us great again....
+Ben Hughs
TRUMP 2016
Clearly a man with brains !
Ben Hughs
Thanks.
Go Trump!
+Ben Hughs I agree
Can you see obama shivering watching this.
lol iron =rust
Really? these cars were the biggest POS. Why do you think Americans were buying Toyotas at this time,
Your wrong. I had a 72 Duster and 75 caddy that ran for almost 20 years. Both were bought brand new.I LOVED the cars back then.
I would say the 80s was the worst of american cars...
Gio048:
I bought (as a novelty)a 74 Coupe Deville....like 2 years ago. I can say after tinkering with it, the build-quality,tolerances,etc. of the Caddy is a joke....it's why (then and now)the Big 3 have a difficult time finding-duping Retail buyers to purchase their shit beyond: Government,Fleet, and Rental companies....vehicles the Retail buying public does not want.
By the mid-sixties, North American consumers were already turning their backs on Detroit.....because they largely produced sub-par products compared to the Foreign competition.
The 1969 - 1978 full size Fords were very good cars. Where we failed was in smaller cars.
This film is a lie!!!
See, when a mommy car and a daddy car really love each other, they kiss each other in a special way, and then, after many months, a car is born.
Some truths are hard to swallow, but they're truth nonetheless. 😂