Detroit Historical Museum - Cadillac Assembly Line Exhibit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2013
- This exhibit shows a recreation of the Clark Street Plant assembly line. This facility produced the Cadillac for GM. The "demon drop" dropped the body to the chassis during assembly.
There are a lot of people who own one of these cars now looking at this and thinking to themself "so many brand new OEM parts..."
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
LOL. especially if they were driven in the salty northern winter roads!
@@judee00 Or exposed to enough sun to warp, crack and eventually disintegrate the filler pieces!
Drooling over those factory wire wheels as I type this lol
The cady be like "FINISH BUILDING ME ALREADY DAMNIT!!! ITA BEEM 40 YEARS!!!!!"
Yep
Lol
LOL! Very funny. I can just imagine how sad this car is wondering if it's ever going to make it to the showroom floor. Tough choice between a new '82 Fleetwood and a '22 CT5-V. Guarantee you the '82 rides better.
That Cadillac should be happy its never been finished. It would have been rotted away in some junkyard, or been made into soup cans by now. That Cadillac has been granted eternal youth.
@@johntodd1086 Good point. Can't say the same for the Cimeron
"I got it one piece at a time"
"And it didn't cost me a dime"
RIP Johnny Cash.
It was aaaaa 48, 49,52,61,77,98,09,13,18,21 coupe de villa! 😆 Love JOHNY Cash!
@@jimmycline4778 👍👍
Haha. Awesome. Better than the video. JOHN.R. CASH. "GET RYTHYM" !!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Working at Fleetwood for 20 years it is great to see that the standard of the world is preserved for future generations, there will never be another vehicle to match what we built, it’s great that this was preserved from someone who had foresight of the future, these are very special vehicles!!
Fleetwood RV? That went bankrupt?
@@Cutlass_Rudd Fleetwood Metal Body, Fisher Body Works; the division which stamped and assembled the vehicle bodies for GM products.
@Karl Hahnke, you could make reproductions of these vehicles.
hey i had a few cars with fleetwoods stamp on them
I wonder if this Cadillac will ever get finished haha, gosh wouldn't it be good to have a new one of these again!
Hi, like many Cadillac's of the1980's.. I'd love to see them built new again. The choice of color and interior trim far surpasses options we have on our cars today! That Fleetwood too, is worth preserving! The fact that the same body style remained in production for so long shows that it was a well loved car, and an elegant one at that.
Yeah it’s the actual good one from that era
@Yael Elon shut the fuck up bitch
@@jamespeter7976 77 coupe de ville one bad ass flagship that car glided on air 425 big block fast beautiful ride
That was a gorgeous car!!! Quiet and a smooth ride... Also the passengers in the back seat were comfortable, try to find that today.
Cadillac xts is plenty comfortable.
@@markk3652 The ride is shit compared to these old boats.
@@V8Power5300 opinions vary.
@@V8Power5300 wtf boomer
Koki Ryusei zoomer here, the new cars are POS, uncomfortable, small, and you can’t work on them yourself, new cars don’t even wanna let you change the oil, they put special nuts on the oil pan.
Anyone who's owned a GM car of this era knows "precise assembly" was not part of the equation.
Idk
Maybe look it up
still isent
When you have to crank them out at the rate they did, you might have to punt here and there.
@@onemoremisfit and yet european car makers made better cars then american at the same or higher production rates american cars are pretty badly made but they are cool looking and fun to have
Body on frame is boss. Gloriously inefficient. Supremely comfortable.
@Jay Smith , kind of like how your mom and dad made you?
Amazing of how they produce cars. I'm always fascinated by anything to do with Detroit and the Automobile Industry in America. Great Video and showing two Classic Cadillac's I love it even more being a Cadillac Fan.
The body of these classic Cadillacs was proudly built at Fleetwood, located in Delray. The body might have been designed by Fisher, but it was assembled in Historic Delray.
My grandmother lived on the first street south (?) of Fort Street, where the Cadillac Fisher Body plant was. Later, I worked at Cadillac as a GMI co-op student at Clark and Michigan, where this process of final assembly occurred. Very few people know what went into producing the Standard of the World!
It is such a blessing from a human material level to be able to see this important piece of the production process of our American automobile industry.
It is great to be able to show, teach first hand this to the public. We thank you all for your foresight, vision, creativity and desire to take on this undertaking to have at the museum!
Thank you to all those involved in making this happen, leadership, bean counters, artist, carpenters, electricians, painters, photographers, film crew, software you tube crew, all the trades.
This could not have come into reality without the full team. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I own several GM’s (67 and 68 Buick Skylarks, 62 Chevy II, 68 Malibu SS 396,
68 Oldsmobile Toronado, 75 Pontiac Catalina, 78 Oldsmobile Omega).
I would love to own a 62 Cadillac 2 dr., 72 Buick Skylark, 72 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon with the Greyhound tinted roof windows😎👍🏻
Thank you.
Be blessed. 👍🏻😉👍🏻🛻🚘🚙🚖🚔🏎🚙🚗👍🏻😎🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸
Sapp440 is correct! I worked at the Clark Street Plant and Fleetwood Assembly. The quality was aweful. I was a repairman for the Body and Trim Assembly. That's why they closed these plants. It took an average of 73 man hours to build that rear drive Cadillac and Toyota was building their cars in less than 30 hours. If the quality was there, these plants would still be operating. Furthermore, the multiple storied plants built in the early 20th century were inefficient for storage and delivery of parts to final assembly. They were built at a time in cities with little space for industry but lots of cheap labor.
Thats was my first car. Same color too. I absolutely loved that car.
U CAN DRIVE A CAR , OR U CAN DRIVE A CADILLAC !! MINES A 1991 CADILLAC BROUGHAM D'ELEGANCE WITH GLASS MOONROOF DOUBLE TUFTED LEATHER SEATS ,5.7 V8 AND AS BEAUTIFUL AS THEY COME !!
Martin DEAN congrats.
5.7 is becoming very rare to put your hands on now. 5.0 is the run of the mill one. Sounds like a beauty you have.
There is a lot of flex in that frame when they set the body on it.
Leaf springs on a full body frame with a solid rear end will look like that.
@@Adamz678 Even if that were true this car has coil springs front and back but thanks for playing.
@@Adamz678 What leaf springs?
@@travoywashington7290 Wrong, this is a 73 ford bronco, this has leaf springs in the rear and coils in the middle.
I noticed that. Interesting that the grille goes up when the passenger section is placed on the chassis. Not knocking the car though, I’d drive one 👍🏻
I know someone who worked as maintenance at Tonawanda engine. He said around christmas of 1987 they were still running an engine line making something (i forget what) and he kept hearing WHAM, WHAM, WHAM WHAM... every 30 seconds or so - went to go check it out and brand new engine assemblies were piling up on a conveyor belt where a sensor had been "bypassed" - falling off the conveyor and smashing on the floor.
It reminds of the song 🎵 "1 piece at a time . "
My Dad had a 79 Coupe De Ville in firemist metallic. That car was as quiet and comfortable as a living room. Remember that small removable trash bin the front passenger footwell? Perfect for those long trips.
Wish they where actually putting them together and selling them
There are a lot of real good ones going to the crusher all the time.
@@crushingvanessa3277 that and now there asking too much for the ones that are in rough shape
That’s why my Cadillac never showed up, they’re still building it.
And that is what you call 'body on frame' construction...for obvious reasons.
Lego cars in the 80's and 90's . Pinnacle of function/style and still bring able to work on them.
Damn, I wish that big ass land yachts like this were still being made.
i would have never guessed that the grille shell went on that early.
because it did not
@@RivieraByBuick...did the fender go on before the front clip ?
The vehicles were built at two different plants. The Fleetwood Body Plant built the bodies from the firewall back and trucked them in trailers over to the Clark Street Plant for final assembly. What you're seeing is the "body drop" that was at the Clark Street Plant after the body was shipped over to Clark Street. Yes, the frame, engine, header panel and grille were all assembled at Clark Street and the body was dropped as you see it. The fenders and hood were bolted on and fitted afterward once the body was on the car. The fenders and hood were attached later after the body drop. Clark Street had an engine manufacturing facility, a chrome plant and stamping plant. The biggest problem was getting the paint to match the body and the fenders/hood. They were painted at two different places and the paint match was often a little off from the front of tge car and the doors back. Also, these were not modern Base Coat/Clear Coat. These cars were painted in old fashioned enamel. Cadillac switched from lacquered paint to enamel years before in order to save labor on rubbing and polishing the lacquer paint jobs.
@@garysmith1759 ...Sounds like our plant , the painted Wrangler body was shipped to another plant where it was assembled and dropped on a frame .
@Gappie Al Kebabi ...I have 2 cacti in our lanai
I drove an 86 Fleetwood Brougham as a first car to high school. Loved these things...super comfortable and sturdy as a rock...even if mine was already 30 something years old when I drove it
I still find it interesting that they put the grille, headlights and really the whole "face" of the car on BEFORE the body drop.
I had a friend a couple of houses away who's parents had an 81 Sedan Deville. The backseat was comfortable. The one thing I remembered was each passenger door had an ashtray with a cigarette lighter.
being back the coupe
Era of a real automobiles !
That’s weird the header panel goes on before the fenders..
There should be Buick Park Avenues and Oldsmobile 98's on the line as well, as they were all built in the same plants.
The Fleetwood Plant only built the Cadillac Fleetwood and in the last years built the Caprice Classic R.W.D. and the Oldsmobile Delta 88. The Buick was never built at Fleetwood , nor was the Oldsmobile 98.
@@garysmith1759 The Arlington plant built the last truly big Fleetwood Broughams along with the Roadmasters through '96. Others included the Caprice, Impala SS, and Olds Custom Cruiser from 1991-92 - Basically all of the last GM B and D bodies along with the truck lines. When the big full size sedans went out, the full size SUVs came into the plant.
My grandparents had an 87 blue Brougham, it was like driving a ship lol!
ANybody that wants a new looking de ville should check out AnthonyGozzo's channel he always sells these mint examples with crazy low miles
NICE. I want those wire wheels
I hate to say this; I have owned MANY G.M. vehicles over years...I believe the "snout" was on the chassis so that workers could tell that these were "Cadillacs" and NOT other variations of Chevrolets! THERE WAS SO VERY LITTLE TO DISTINGUISH these "brands"!
My gold 83 coupe de ville had a ton of shims to line-up the front fenders with the rest.
Work of art
Excelente Cadillac
That was probably a V8 /6 /4 in there . One of the best concept engines coming to life by Gm. It’s demise was the inability to service and fix its issues. Typical from them to give up
An admirable try at cylinder deactivation, 30+ years ahead of it being relatively commonplace. The latest iteration being stop/start, which is totally gay.
It is good that the chassis bends when the car body is placed.
The claw is our master
hold on i was there when i was a kid once with my familiy man its been years
Makes me sad knowing my Cadillac is just in the garage collecting dust, window broken, tires are half flat :(
I wanna build it or at least sell it to someone who will fix it up :(
Did they have rusted driveshafts like that back when they were new too?
Back when vehicles were built like Tanks 💪
Wow is this still open 🤩🤩🤩 I have a cadillac fleetwood brougham 89
I have a 96 Cadillac Deville,,,
Smart buyers of the era bought a Caprice or Delta 88 instead, as it was clearly the same thing, but with the chance of not having a shitty drivetrain
Very Seville I saw...
Yeah I smiled ...
Is that machine as old as the cadilac itself?
Probably older. They dropped bodies on frames like that for a very long time.
@@erikdevries9208 Oh, right. I had computers and microchips on mind.
Where did this come from?
That’s back when quality stood for something . Now they are mass produced
You obviously never owned an 80's caddy
Yeah. V 8. 6 4 and v6. Sedan de filled.
Vehicles have been mass produced pretty much since the birth of the automobile itself.
Nice
So....Is this why the front pulley FELL OFF of my dad's one year old Chevrolet Chevette while he was driving up I-75 in Michigan in 1981? I have NEVER owned a general motors product and I seriously doubt I ever will-
Dad got to a phone and me and my mom picked him up that morning, the car was towed to the local Chever-Lay dealer where we bought it. The car we got there in? A "Bimini Beige" 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville d'Elegance [B-body] with a 425 cubic inch/7.0 liter four barrel carbed motor.
That needed 16 seconds to reach 60 mph....
Hello~?
They were geared extremely high, that makes for a long zero to sixty. I've owned around 50 Buicks, countless other GMs with a few Ford's and Mopars...some good, some bad, a few were the best handling ever.
@@christianmotley262 The 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville d'elegance that my mom owned was a 425 four barrel that made all of 180 hp for it's 4300 pound bulk. The 2.23 gear set was indeed a problem for this car, but really, it was the low compression along with a cam that gave a power peak at 3200 rpm that hampered performance. The funny thing about this ride was while it was SLOW, it towed my parent's 26 foot Argosy trailer through the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina with little trouble, despite the tall axle ratio. That means it had a lot of low end torque.
-One of the problems with this car was that my electrical engineer father decided shortly after he bought it that he wasn't willing to pay the 2 cents per gallon more for the unleaded fuel this new car required, so he modified the fuel filler to accept leaded fuel. With the catalytic converters still installed. Did I mention that he has a bachelor's degree in engineering? What~?
Irregardless of my dad's "frugality", it was still a shining example of the stupidity of the general motors corporation, and American car companies in general, which wish to build a PROFIT first and a CAR second.
So many of us - me included - complain that Cadillac doesn't make full-sized sedans any more. Both the XTS and the CT6 are no longer in production, and by my experience (rentals during visits to the States) they were quite competent luxury cruisers. The reason they were canceled? People simply didn't buy 'em.
It wasn't just the XTS, it was sales of all large sedans. Cadillac sales are a tiny fraction of what they need to sustain a platform. GM quit Europe and Australia which ended Holden/Opel/Vauxhall sedan sales, then fleet sales died: Taxis needed SUVs to fit a wheelchair, police demanded bigger cars after the Crown Vic fires, and GM decided to tone down the low-margin rental car market.
@@straightpipediesel I have to agree with you, but still it's a pity. I've owned two 7-series, one 5-series, an XJ and now a CLS. Add to that currently two 2-seaters and my wife's A-class. Honestly buying an SUV has never crossed my mind and perhaps never will.
Ngl I’d love to have a deadstock one of those. Apparently they still have parts n shit. I gotta check that out
I had a yellow one
Nothing showed rust faster than a yellow Cadillac.
After owning them for 35 years with numerous issues . And the last two NYS certified refunded lemons. I finally can see why . They are all made right before 5pm on Friday 😂
Cadillac Brougham me now!
Anywhere besides Tx: Nice Cadillac
Tx: Ouu you seen them Swangas on dat Lac boy
Cool
Ice blue Metallic Brougham with the wire wheels, Vogues. Probably 140 horse OLDS carbonated V8 with 2.56 gears in the rear. 2 inch single exhaust. 25.0 gallon fuel tank.
They dont make em' like that anymore.
I never knew engines were carbonated! I've heard of carbureted but never carbonated the mpg must be amazing 😄
@@yannisgouras4482 they run on soda water. it's good for the ozone layer or something.
Those are royal seal tires. I’ve always thought they were nicer that vogue,
@@generaldissaray4109 Come now Sir. It's a Cadillac. It runs on Perrier or San Pelagrino, depending on who did the installation of the hood ornament.
I'm thinking that after this long, it's gone completely flat.
Carbonated, ha!😄
Pride in ownership.
The exhibit is missing the fifth of Jack Daniel’s and the bag of weed !
Just like that , but 10 to 15 times faster with the hoist.
Would love to have those rims!
Those are wheels, not “rims”.
@@mr.butterworth4216 a rim goes on the inside of a tire. Together makes a wheel.
Neat
Lol, quality product. Maybe someday.
Yes, quality product you idiot. Up until the late-60’s anyway. After that it dipped, and Cadillac has been putting out garbage ever since, including into the 2020’s.
This was sadly the downsized stuff was crap and crippled Cadillac
so the crane thing just takes the car off to do it again?
He lives a very naturalistic life, sure.
There's a Cadillac phasing through the wall!
I could almost feel this car collapsing around me in an accident
Still waiting for my blue caddy just finish her already dam GM 😂 pimpin not easy out here😏
GM Linden NJ Plant.
They don’t make them like they used to most cars today as you can think of disposable cameras
yes we can clearly see it's built by hand
Not even close to actual assembly, which you can find here on TH-cam
It depends on the vehicle , with a frame this is the way vehicles are built. If it is unibody then it's built differently.
Cadillac now is unibody except the Escalade.
Why can they make it again the same for 2021 be 😎.
LOL!
That is not how cars assembled. I know it’s a display, but it could have been more authentic.
And I LOVE Cadillac’s from that era!
I want a 1988 FWD DeVille so bad.
As the person who uploaded this video and the son of the worker that actually worked in the assembly plant, I can assure you this is the process.
They sure are built like this , now a unibody is built differently.
I have 35 years at Jeep Assembly in Toledo, Oh and we built unibody and full frame vehicles.
You don’t want any 80s down sized gm stuff it wasn’t that good full size was way better quality
@@toledojeeper2932 that is cool what jeeps did ya build
@@HighSockDavid ...Toledo Assembly built Jeep Wranglers , Jeep CJ series , Jeep Cherokee XJ , Jeep Grand Wagoneers , Jeep J Series pickup , Jeep Liberty , Dodge Nitro , Dodge Dakota . I worked on everyone of these vehicles assembly lines .
Lol recommended 8 years later
After Dads bad experiences with GM'S Dad bought a Ford and never looked back he still drives Fords.
Gtfo with that bro if you don’t like gm’s why you click then gotdamit Todd
ummmm....? okay?
reading this gave me a fucking stroke
@@relaxese4822 is right, why click a gm ad if you don't like them?
I’m the complete opposite!!! Bought one Ford and I sold that pile of shit 💩 because it kept leaving me every where! I was driving back from work and when I pressed the Gas on my 2001 F150 it sounded like a 12 gauge shotgun went off! LOL 😂 next thing I knew it sounded like a jalopy and started running like shit! I went outside and realized that there was small dent in the hood. I did a thread repair on that pile of monkey shit and sold it! To each their own but I rather own anything else than a Ford.
Futurama: And this is how they use to make the, auto-ma-car
Yep
Lol
Wow, didn't knew these cars were built like prewar ones 😯.
HT 4100 4.1 L V-8 engine was the biggest piece of shit I've ever worked on in all my life.
"...builds each and every car by hand..." Cue robotic body cradle.... good... now check out that flexible frame. Of all the things to but into a Museum why this?
Park your car long enough in Detroit and it’ll get put up on blocks disassembled for free... full service city.
Hmm
I remember that year,,,, this is the point during the assembly the rust starts eating away at it.
It just lost 10% of it's value once they dropped the body on.
Don't worry, you can always double the value by fill up the gastank.
lol is that an undercarrage , like they did it in the 1960-s? :DDDDD
Yeah, that's one way we've always made cars, I don't see what so funny or strange about it. It's just a real car i.e. full sized, v8, independent front suspension with proper solid rear axle on leaf or coil springs. As I said a REAL car.
@@mzwere1 *with all its drawbacks, and that is exactly why we let it go like 40yrs ago :D
Okay its time to retire that seen 😄
Too bad it didn’t short out and flip the Caddy over lol
Its cool to see how junk was precisely made.
Cars today are plastic mode
cash 4 clunkers rescue!
And to think the average assembly line worker was paid $30 an hour (calculated for inflation) to make these turds.
Depends on when you were hired , starting wages were cut to $17 in 2009 and it takes almost 8 years to get to $25 .
This car has more substance than any import piece of shit you’ve ever owned.
@@mr.butterworth4216 agreed I owned two American cars since I learned to drive an ‘79 trans am and a ‘20 Dodge Challenger and both have more personality than most cars sold today
No wonder european and japanese cars are better
How did you extrapolate that knowledge from watching a body being slowly lowered onto a frame?
@@Individualman929 european cars used monocoque chassis
Sure these cars were classy and pretty, but they had crap suspension and weighed way to much. horrible gas mileage.
Definitely not assembled in this order🥴
Why do you say that ?
Nope they wasn’t build that way
How were they built ?
You might be thinking of the 50s,60s,70s this is a late 80s Cadillac brougham they definitely used machines in them
Garbage cheap looking cars.
Cadillac is nothing but an expensive Chevrolet now. 👎
You clearly haven’t seen the monstrosity that was the Cimarron