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.
Seven years before I could even dream that I would be involved with assembling the second generation of these vans in late-2004 I was sitting in a Chevrolet Venture at Reedman Chevrolet in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. My wife chose a red Venture.
TralfazConstruction Does she still have it? I kind of wish GM still made minivans. I feel that they would have kept the column shifter for a while too.
@@42luke93 No, no. Sadly, she passed away from effects of 4th Stage Breast Cancer in June of 2002. I kept it up, it only had 38k miles, and kept it ready in case it was ever needed. It looked and drove like new when I sold it, for a song, to my niece and she kept it for five years in very good shape when she sold it to a friend of hers. I think it might still be in service.
@@TralfazConstruction Sorry to hear about your loss (and the late reply on my end). Hopefully the van is still running on the road somewhere. I think the point in the video I put is the wrong person then since it is a guy at 32:07
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.
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 dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly forgot the account password. I love any help you can give me
@Conor Weston i really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Conor Weston DAMN IT ACTUALLY WORKED! I just hacked my IG login after about 40 mins of using the site. Had to pay 15 $ but definitely worth it :O Thank you so much you saved my account !
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.
32:07 I wonder if that guy that won the van (Bill Perkins) still has it today. Lucky dude!
Those vans are cool!
Seven years before I could even dream that I would be involved with assembling the second generation of these vans in late-2004 I was sitting in a Chevrolet Venture at Reedman Chevrolet in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. My wife chose a red Venture.
TralfazConstruction
Does she still have it? I kind of wish GM still made minivans. I feel that they would have kept the column shifter for a while too.
@@42luke93 No, no. Sadly, she passed away from effects of 4th Stage Breast Cancer in June of 2002. I kept it up, it only had 38k miles, and kept it ready in case it was ever needed. It looked and drove like new when I sold it, for a song, to my niece and she kept it for five years in very good shape when she sold it to a friend of hers. I think it might still be in service.
@@TralfazConstruction
Sorry to hear about your loss (and the late reply on my end). Hopefully the van is still running on the road somewhere. I think the point in the video I put is the wrong person then since it is a guy at 32:07
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.
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 dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account?
I stupidly forgot the account password. I love any help you can give me
@Alijah Oscar Instablaster =)
@Conor Weston i really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Conor Weston DAMN IT ACTUALLY WORKED! I just hacked my IG login after about 40 mins of using the site.
Had to pay 15 $ but definitely worth it :O
Thank you so much you saved my account !
@Alijah Oscar you are welcome :)
3.6 million square mile plant. Man, that's a big plant!
Lol
those vans are junk!!
Garbage motors😂😂
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.