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wow, almost thirty-five years ago, I wonder how many are still living

Now GM is just a hollowed out crumpled shell of its former self

I heard Picklesyer drove it down the road 5 miles and traded it in on a Ford Mustang GT ! 😁

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80-90B-body, Last GM car worth having, incredible reliability/durability

My 75 Pontiac Lemans Sport Coupe was built there. I bought it from the original owner in 2002, am still driving it daily.

They picked my mom’s body up from hospice in one of these Chevy venture vans after she passed and took her to the crematorium.

Grew up in Lakewood, end of an era, a community, and a way of life. I used to love to see all the new cars out front and even went through an open house when I was four years old. It was something else.

my dad worked here 38 years! retired when plant closed in 1990

My medium gray metallic Chevrolet Caprice Classic Brougham was built there 1988 too... It has currently only 26.250 miles. What a great impressive video of good old America. Best regards from Germany to the workers on plant, thanks for building my car! Mo

Nice. Just saw that car sell for $250,000 at Mecum Auction Huston. Who was the suit?

My father was there on that day worked 38.7 Years at that plant!

We have had since new 1990 a Caprice STW, that was assabled over there. Lake Wood. We still have it. In Lake Wood assembly were assembled the Export versions to Europe. Ours is one. Was sold here in Kuopio, Finland ad new to my family. In only my use it was since 1997. I used it in Finland and many other European countries. I still have it, and it is in good condition. It was nice to see where and by whom the car was made!

That was an amazing place to see. Iw watched them build the vehicle from start to finish, lots of robots in the welding shop. I've been at the marriage assembly area, my parts that I inspected an repaired was the fuel bundle on the engine. Trimming the heat shield with scissors. I was a young man and I absorbed as I much as could. Ford Hapevillle was similar to watch, amazing!

Thanks for sharing. My chevelle 69 was built there

Fast forward 31 years and I’m working security at this site. It’s now a gravel lot where utility trucks are parked when not in use. All that remains of the plant are the two gray metal buildings at the north end of the property near the RxR tracks. Across the rest of the site there are foundations, broken railings, overgrown railroad tracks and an old outbuilding at the top of some stairs that descend to Sawtell Avenue. You can still find a couple of cement walls with parking written on them too. I’ve worked here numerous times over the last few months and only today learned what this place used to be. The surrounding neighborhood has seriously deteriorated over the years. It’s really sad to see it. They say this place will soon be turned into a film production site, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

5:20 know she was going to party 🎉 when she got off! She got her dressy blouse 👚 on. Ha. Okaaayy. And her wig done up! 🙃 she started laughing at seems nothing. Must’ve been hi off those trees 🌳! 😐 eyes 👀 tight. That’s that high-laugh. Ha.

Thanks fir that awesssooomme video. Life is amazing! :)

2:55 well that’s awkward! Just standing looking at the camera. Guess the camera recorder was still a new thing back then. 😐 several people did that in the video. Stood and stared. Like they forgot the cars were on the line! 😕 raggedy American cars 🚘!

It was little wonder how some of the cars assembled by this bunch of "tards" ever made it off the assembly line.

1982? Cuando el personal era inadecuado por drogas o alcohol por eso se remplazaron por robots

Awesome!!

3.6 million square mile plant. Man, that's a big plant!

I remember working on Randy’s computer a couple of times when I worked there, guess this must have been around 1999-2000. The computer that ran the “shake rattle and roll” machine (that’s what we called it) was absolutely ancient. It ran on a 486 and died in early 2006. It took us the better part of a week to rebuild it, as it had a proprietary ISA card that ran the machine that would have cost about $12,000 to buy the modern PCI equivalent to install in a newer computer. GM didn’t want to spend the money buying a new one because the decision had already been made to close the plant at that point.

Compared to today's assembly plants, these look grungy and dirty.

My mom's 1996 Cutlass Supreme was built at this plant. This is the vehicle I learned to drive on when I got my license in Nova Scotia, Canada in 2001. I have fond memories of this car with the big bench seat and column shift. Great car. I miss Oldsmobile.

Love how the father brought the kid with him to work . Cant do that no more . My wife grandfather worked at this plant for nearly 3 decades. Lived off Custer ave.

In the video at 4:45, there is a gray haired man on the left of the line taking pictures with a still camera. This Albert McGaha who lived next door to me as I grew up. He first worked on the Fisher Body side of the factory until they merged. He passed away around April of 2020.

I was privileged to work in this plant, GM's Doraville Assembly, for twenty-three months beginning in late-October 2004 just as the production of the second generation of the crossover van, the GMT 201, was ramping-up. I still see the first and second generation vehicles built in this plant on the roadways.

I'm german and I just bought a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice a few days ago, it's an export model which was bought new by a dutch man in 1990. It was built in the Lakewood plant according to the VIN (plant code A).

Now you know why the Japanese, Koreans, Germans, Swedes, build a better car. What a slack disipline at this plant. No wonder it shut down. Thanks alot guys for all your tom foolery on the line and producing cars with high levels of sample defects,

Lakewood wasn’t the only plant to give away the last vehicle, Janesville Assembly gave away its last Tahoe for a raffle benefiting local United way, I believe Oshawa gave away its last truck as well.

Before it was demolished this plant had deteriorated to a horrible state in a short time

My beloved 1968 Chevelle Malibu was assembler in this plant. I’d love to talk to anyone that had their hands on her for her first “birth”. It’s undergoing a frame off restoration right now.

32:07 I wonder if that guy that won the van (Bill Perkins) still has it today. Lucky dude! Those vans are cool!

i hope to someday visit the remains of the plant with my 1976 c10 she was built there as was my uncles 1978 c10 shortbed.thanks to those of you who had a hand in building these amazing pieces of history.

those vans are junk!!

The wonderful Bush economy.........

Kids working on the line with no safety glasses. No labor laws being broken there or anything......No wonder why Shitvettes were such piles of garbage.

Dumb

The the wire break or come unhooked?

I worked there 1973-74. Anyone remember the foreman's Snow and Hendrix? Hendrix went on to Doraville and made my life miserable there too so I quit.

What size winch was that?

People had fun working back then, today it's laaaaaaaaazy I don't want to work evenings,nights weekends family first. I did my part working all those shift but noooooo not today. I bought a chevette back in 81 new on order I sold it 1 and half later with 28,000miles on it to buy a piece of shit complete junk of a Honda Prelude and I had nothing but problem with this piece of crap. Just because I wanted a stick shift

Thank You for posting the video! I worked @ Chrysler Fenton,Missouri Plant #1 South auto's & vans. "Retired" 2007

Ninguém usava uniforme e parece que faltava comprometimento com o trabalho.

GM. Used to build good cars...that chevette and the citation were junk...they out did Ford by making it cheap and unreliable ... So very sad...

My 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS was built there.I still have it and drove it in the Mooresville, NC Veterans Day Parade Last Saturday.It is still in great condition I bought it in August 1965 at Timmers Chevrolet on Whitehall Street. I still have all the paper work, etc. It is a numbers matching car in original condition. You guys did a great job building this 396 4 speed.

Norwood gave the last Camaro to a worker that was 8-27-87

WHERE IS LAKEWOOD... ONTARIO OR USA?