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- Body Assembly at GMC Truck and Coach Division’s Plant #3 in Pontiac, MI. Source: General Motors
We interviewed John Mest in September, 2023. He was recruited from another GM assembly line in 1972 to help assemble the first three GMC motorhome prototypes.By the time actual production began, John was running "Final Finishing" -- the quality control department for completed GMC motorhomes coming off the line. His interview will be post in late-2023 to this channel.
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I’m impressed how easily my forklift picked one of these up to load it onto my trailer when I hauled it away for scrap.
This is how you're supposed to build an automobile. The big 455 Olds and TH425 are bolted in and ready to drive it even before the body drop.
Yep. GM were always looking for the most efficient way to assemble these unique RVs and succeeded in this regard for sure.
Man I need more of these!
Thanks for posting this. A GMC Palm Beach is the reason my parents bought a motorhome in the first place. We were behind one going down the road and people were walking around in it.
How interesting! The power and draw of great industrial design.
No worries about rust with aluminum and fiberglass body!
The frame is exposed to the elements so many owners, including myself, try to remove any rust build up in areas we haven't made it to yet, and then a healthy application of POR 15 fixes and seals the metal below. :-)
Aah,WOW,The EM-50 when it was new! "DECENT"
LoL.
0:34 Nolan from Donut Media with some sick sideburns.
Indeed!
That is cool.
It's fascinating to see how GM took a standard automobile assembly approach and combined it with elements of aircraft assembly to produce the GMC Motorhome.
Our forklift picked one of those up and slammed it!
Where did we go wrong?! 🤔
These were assembled by mid 2000s portland hipsters?
Did they sell well?
My understanding is that of the nearly 13.5K that were manufactured, most were sold during the production run. The rest within a few years of the end manufacture. Currently, there are approx. 12.5K accounted for with about 8.5K on the road. Visit www.gmcmi..com for more details.
"In March 1973, Alex
Mair, general manager of GMC Truck &
Coach, reported, “The initial response
has surpassed even our most optimistic
expectations.” It was reported in June
of that year that back orders totaled
3,000 units, and the rate of motorhome
production was about 20 units per day."
read the full article by Bill Bryant, the community's GMC Motorhome historian, here: www.bdub.net/publications/GMC_Motorhome_-_The_Story_of_a_Classic.pdf