I worked at the Oakville ON assembly plant , building 1974 Torinos and Montereys. I was always after the job of driving the cars onto the RR but I was too junior for it. Both the 1962 T-bird ,and the Continental were high quality cars among the best Fomoco ever offered, we'll never see that kind of glamour again....
I love those early 60's Lincoln Continentals with the suicide doors and chrome trim along top of the fenders and doors, what a classic. Built the same year same as me (The Camelot Years)! Lincoln should revisit some of that retro styling.
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This footage is amazing! Can't believe that after owning a 61 LC for 30 years that I am just seeing this for the frist time!! THANK YOU!! (some period music my be cool though, just a thought) !!! THANKS AGAIN!!
Class A - assemblies - doors, hood, deck lid, roof fenders and quarter panels for T-Bird and Towncar and Mark and Continentail were supplied by the Budd Co. I visited Wixom in 1983 for a Budd Co. rep. was stationed there. State of the art clean plant - hard workers.
This is the Wixom plant. They built all the Lincoln and Ford Thunderbirds at this brand new plant starting in 1957 with the 1958 model year. The plant produced these first modern Unitized body or Unibody cars. The 1958 Lincolns hold the record at the largest unibody car design. The unibody 1958 T-Bird (the first of the Square Birds) was the money maker. The Lincolns not so much.
Awesome video!!Thank You for the post. This is probably the Wixom, Mich plant, which is no longer in service. This plant was dedicated to Lincoln and Thunderbird production
Nice to see how cars were made prior to robots and computers. Not that I have anything against robots, but seeing a worker put in a weld gives me more confidence in the cars integrity.
True, the human eye can spot flaws when your jobs is to do the same thing to perfection with a tempo and feel for each car. A friend told me about a Steel maker that got rid of the people trained to toss boxes of material into the furnace that purified the molten steel to get the impurities to the surface and skimmed off prior to pour into ingots. The company had a normal amount of chemical and automated it to be shoved in to do the job for the people let go. But, suddenly the throw-away rate when up and steel bars kept cracking . The men knew the amount to toss in based on the level of molten material because of experience just as someone that waters the ice rink and eye balls every step to see patterns that work. I had a 63 Tbird and this is a good video to see how my car went from sheet metal to a body ready for the drive train and add-ons to drive out the door as a completed vehicle.
I was there as a kid! I toured the Pico Rivera (Los Angeles) plant at least five times in 1962-65 as we bought T-birds in our family. It was quite amazing to see these being built and Ford had a shop where you could buy models and souvenirs. Im still looking for the long lost models!
What's really amazing is that these two unibody cars were only made at one plant for years, unlike other unibodies such as the Falcon and Mustang!-Gearhead222
I'm going to guess this might be Wixom, MI...outside Detroit. Virtually every American car brand and model was built throughout Michigan back then. Detroit, metro Detroit, Lansing, Flint, Pontiac with parts production throughout the whole State. Really miss those days.
I always wanted to know how the 1963 to 1968 lincolns engines were installed. Being a massive weight of motor, the three men in the veido answered my question. I own a1989 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series. Thank You. For this vedio.
Think about what effort it must take to set up an assembly line. It is extraordinarily complex. I doubt one person in 100 can understand what it takes to build cars.
I worked in two automotive plants Trailmobile (Heavy Equipment/Crane Operator) putting dies in & out of presses The Budd Company (Pretty much the same thing)
I own a '63 Thunderbird hardtop (hence my username). According to the build sheet we found under the rear seat, she was built at the Wixom plant on December 10, 1962. Interestingly, there was another build sheet attached to ours; the one attached was for a Continental. Seems like the next car on the line behind her was a Connie. 55 years later, she's getting restored.
Meanwhile someones restoring a lincoln and sayin where is mah durn build sheet? Haha. Is there some kind of registry? That would be a hoot if that lincoln was around , you could give him his build sheet back😝
I had an old FORD book from the 70"s and it listsed the 1962 Tbird as having the base 390, tri-power Roadster 390, and a optional 405bhp 406 Cu In. . I have never seen a 62 Bird with a 406, but FORD claimed it existed for the Galaxie and Thunderbird line.
Great video " I was born in 62' Had my car repaired at the dealership' 05 Buick Park Avenue SE two tone silver/black one of the last 300 built' what I didn't like is the dealership trying to sale me a car' I hated that
tO SEE 100 classic cars in a trailer when they are new .... is an amazing moment. Thunderbird and Lincoln '62 were the more beautiful cars early sixties. A little less magic than fifties, but more real, cosmetics details like tail of rockets not now in '60 stayed outside. More elegant to be less paraphernalia in lines. I'd say "more landed" (feet on the ground) Chris Stgo CL
This is the most amazing footage I have ever seen. Only wish there was audio. It appears to be a Ford-made documentary film, so I can imagine there was originally narration to accompany it?
MY opinion of all the early sixties cars the best quality build, Ford really wanted to overcome the bad rep the 58 thru 60 Lincolns had . At least that's what I've read elsewhere and somewhat proven by the number of these cars that survive in original form.
I thought the music went good with the video. I love the old factory videos and you put a modern spin on it with the music you chose. It's better than the music that was in the commercials of the day.
Sad but true. If I were in charge of the world, when we caught a grifitti vandal, we would get to go to their house, and spray paint their stuff. And their body. And then we’d have a public flogging.
This was the Wixom Assembly plant. The real genius was Ford's Rouge operation. Ford land produced Ford coal, iron ore and timber, which was loaded onto Ford ships and sent down from No. MI and WI to Rouge, where they were dumped into Ford iron, glass, chemical and electrical mills. Ford stamping, Ford transit and Ford assembly then meant... you could watch them dump ROCKS and TREES into one end of the plant and drive Mustangs out the other end. It was tremendous: American industry at its Apex.
Either ads made me lose hearing, or there is no sound. Love the old cars. Why I drive a Lincoln body on full frame, RWD, V8, Ride from heaven and room for all.
I still want to see how they bleed the brakes and do a front-end alignment because the tie-rods must adjust for the right toe-in and the height shims correct the weight issue and are set to level the car with a 160 pound driver. That is a 1962 because 63 also has the T-Bird script on the rear fender as 61-62 were front fender with a 50's soft script style.
BTW, I notice 2 more plain wagons in a row at the 6:30 mark on the top level. My 63 Tbird was a eye catcher in its deep red with black interior and the wide whitewalls.
What's with the Mercury woodie wagon at the 6:14 mark, was the wagon production shared with Lincoln while the Country Squire was a FORD plant assembly??
Hard to believe that the income levels and Standard of living helped sell close to 60'000 T-Birds for the 61-63 series. Plus, the 1960 model that hit close to 85'000 units. Today,Companies make them cheaper and faster with fewer steps for human input. They are almost begining to look alike from the Software and wind tunnel designing. I think the 1963 ended the 50's look and was maybe the best overall design as a 4-seater.
Great video. While it is tempting to think cars back then were 'better" than today, having lived in that era, I disagree. Not all those hand-made welds were done, or done properly. The assembly line ran a lot faster than in these photos. Parts were often missing or improperly installed. Robotic welding and spay booths are producing better quality cars. And let's not forget rust-proofing. Today's cars last longer, get better mileage, have more horsepower, go faster, handle far better, are far safer, have nicer interiors, and killer stereos. Most American cars of this era barely made it to 100,000 miles before they were junked. Today, 100,000 miles is just a starting point, even for the worst-made cars. Nostalgia is a fine and wonderful thing. Don't let it trump reality, however.
Robert Bell....they were better looking cars, and they had a soul because they were put together by men...you advocate for humans being replaced by machines, basically, which is contemptible at best, but really, you're viewpoint is disgusting and you deserve to be mocked and ridiculed for it....
With these models Ford was determined to better assemble them and inspected more along the way , there are still plenty of early 60,s Lincolns running around today in almost perfect order. probably the best put together car of its era.
Internet forums shouldn't be a place for mocking or ridiculing anyone. Robert doesn't seem to me to be attacking human labor; I think he's pointing out, and I agree, that it's one thing to be nostalgic about great looking cars with "soul," and another to argue that many things about modern car manufacturing are better. I loved my '63 Galaxie 500, but the car I have today is far safer, more economical and more convenient. I don't have to beg it to start in -5 F. weather, among other things! ;-)
Branon, before you go off chastising a total stranger you might be better off “cleaning your own house” first by looking in the mirror at yourself. In case you forgot your American history….Henry Ford perfected the assyembly line….which over the years became more and more automated…..allowing the cost of goods to come down. So, unless you can say you’ve never, ever stepped foot into the likes of a WalMart, Target, etc. where goods a cheap…. all thanks to (job killing) automation then it’s YOU that we should be mocking for your poorly thought out remarks.
thank you for this video, very interesting, I have a 72 Lincoln continental, I'm thinking it was made at the Wixom plant? do you know if the 72s were still being produced there? thanks :)
+thomas ankner I'm sorry I don't really have those records. The Benson Ford Library at Greenfield Village would probably be able to help you with that. It's quite a resource. If not they know people who have tracked down build records.
+Lawrence Alvarado --I did a tour of Wixom in 2002--it closed a few years later. Not a lot had changed from all the labor intensiveness shown in this vid. They had a small museum on the shop floor of all the great cars they bolted together there. Yes...making things.
Yes, it was Wixom (about 40 miles west of Detroit), Michigan. Some years ago, after the plant was closed, they completely torn everything down and left the site as they found it. Today, it is just a field and you would never known a factory was ever there. SAD
Back then you could buy these cars for 5000 bucks. No automation just workers busting there butts to make quality. Now it cost 10 times as much and you get so much less.
Look, write a poem or something and do a nice voice over . . . or maybe learn to play a guitar do a great solo over it. What would be good if you went to a garage and recorded the background sounds. You know, air wrenches, hammering and mechanics cussing and whatnot. Thanks. Regards - Bob
If you'd like to do that -- send it in and we'll see if it fits one of the now musicless videos. At this point I'm afraid I really don't the time to create the music as well as digitize the library, upload the clips and all. But happy for any help and support.
Does anyone else think that today's cars are really ugly-ass looking? The cars back then had a sleek and powerful look. Today's cars look more like a shoe.
Just imagine. Ford spent all that money, resources and human capital to put so much quality in to these automobiles only to not put in enough to prevent them from rusting away so easily and quickly. All that time, effort, energy, resources put in to developing these quality automobiles and falling just short of putting in a little more so that so many of them didnt turn to dust. What a terrible shame.
If only people knew what would be the future of cars these old metal beauties would have been cared for alot more and not so quickly replaced. todays car companies are obsessed with you replacing the cars , as if they know were its going to end up or do they.its up to the public to not trust them anymore and restore old cars and refuse to purchase the new cars till they get no buyers except the government contracts that made them buy so many dodge mini vans and Kcars., The public steered away from the crap. they need to again, is it too late? bad cars ugly or cheap and ugly start life at herts rent a car or the post office.no citizen wants some cars even when they are new! can you name a few that would have never sold to the public? I hate the ECO a plastic dip stick come on why? i also have a FIT if i get stuck behind a FIT its eye sore pollution.
+thunderstorms06 Same as back then if not more so, they wanted a customer to trade every year or 2, that's why they completely redesigned the cars each year and lets remember as cool as the old cars are now a little thing called RUST took its toll in only a few years. I do agree if people only knew then, remember the 1st gas shortage when nearly any car muscle or luxury was nearly worthless and they were all sold or traded for a Toyota or Datsun. I worked for a guy who had a 75 0r 76 Eldorado for his wife and he traded it to a rice box Toyota
Agreed, had a '68 station wagon my dad bought brand new. Handed down to me because the body was starting to go in '72. Lasted until '74 when the gas tank fell out of the rear quarter panel, and there was nothing left to hook the straps to. I now drive a 15 year old SUV that if professionally cleaned and detailed would look showroom new.
I worked at the Oakville ON assembly plant , building 1974 Torinos and Montereys. I was always after the job of driving the cars onto the RR but I was too junior for it. Both the 1962 T-bird ,and the Continental were high quality cars among the best Fomoco ever offered, we'll never see that kind of glamour again....
I see it daily because I own one!
Back when we were proud Americans making our own cars HERE in the USA!!
Thank You for Posting
Certainly back in the day, great footage, simply amazing how it was done
+jim dandy Thank you for watching.
I love those early 60's Lincoln Continentals with the suicide doors and chrome trim along top of the fenders and doors, what a classic. Built the same year same as me (The Camelot Years)! Lincoln should revisit some of that retro styling.
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This footage is amazing! Can't believe that after owning a 61 LC for 30 years that I am just seeing this for the frist time!! THANK YOU!!
(some period music my be cool though, just a thought) !!!
THANKS AGAIN!!
Had a '63 '78 '96 T-Bird, Loved each of them :)
Two future classics built side-by-side.
The Wixom assembly plant. The Lincoln's and Thunderbirds were built their until 1976
WOW Thankyou so much for uploading this. It's absolutely FASCINATING !!!
First time seeing this, this is a beautiful time for cars in America.
Class A - assemblies - doors, hood, deck lid, roof fenders and quarter panels for T-Bird and Towncar and Mark and Continentail were supplied by the Budd Co. I visited Wixom in 1983 for a Budd Co. rep. was stationed there. State of the art clean plant - hard workers.
This is the Wixom plant. They built all the Lincoln and Ford Thunderbirds at this brand new plant starting in 1957 with the 1958 model year. The plant produced these first modern Unitized body or Unibody cars. The 1958 Lincolns hold the record at the largest unibody car design. The unibody 1958 T-Bird (the first of the Square Birds) was the money maker. The Lincolns not so much.
I own both a '61 T-Bird convertible and '62 Lincoln. Gorgeous cars.
cool as hell to see how my 63' thunderbird was made !
Awesome video!!Thank You for the post. This is probably the Wixom, Mich plant, which is no longer in service. This plant was dedicated to Lincoln and Thunderbird production
Nice to see how cars were made prior to robots and computers. Not that I have anything against robots, but seeing a worker put in a weld gives me more confidence in the cars integrity.
True, the human eye can spot flaws when your jobs is to do the same thing to perfection with a tempo and feel for each car.
A friend told me about a Steel maker that got rid of the people trained to toss boxes of material into the furnace that purified the molten steel to get the impurities to the surface and skimmed off prior to pour into ingots.
The company had a normal amount of chemical and automated it to be shoved in to do the job for the people let go. But, suddenly the throw-away rate when up and steel bars kept cracking .
The men knew the amount to toss in based on the level of molten material because of experience just as someone that waters the ice rink and eye balls every step to see patterns that work.
I had a 63 Tbird and this is a good video to see how my car went from sheet metal to a body ready for the drive train and add-ons to drive out the door as a completed vehicle.
I was there as a kid! I toured the Pico Rivera (Los Angeles) plant at least five times in 1962-65 as we bought T-birds in our family. It was quite amazing to see these being built and Ford had a shop where you could buy models and souvenirs. Im still looking for the long lost models!
Love seeing how my 62 T-Bird was made!
What's really amazing is that these two unibody cars were only made at one plant for years, unlike other unibodies such as the Falcon and Mustang!-Gearhead222
Love the video, they look like the 62 Birds. the 63 has chevrons on the door 62 the rear has the trim
AWESOME video and thanks for putting it on here. Those are 1962s. I have a 62 T-Bird and it is easy to tell from the body trim.
THANKS AGAIN!
I'm going to guess this might be Wixom, MI...outside Detroit. Virtually every American car brand and model was built throughout Michigan back then. Detroit, metro Detroit, Lansing, Flint, Pontiac with parts production throughout the whole State. Really miss those days.
I always wanted to know how the 1963 to 1968 lincolns engines were installed. Being a massive weight of motor, the three men in the veido answered my question. I own a1989 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series. Thank You. For this vedio.
Thanks for watching.
Wow it is amazing to see how all this was done way back then..
Think about what effort it must take to set up an assembly line. It is extraordinarily complex. I doubt one person in 100 can understand what it takes to build cars.
I worked in two automotive plants
Trailmobile (Heavy Equipment/Crane Operator) putting dies in & out of presses
The Budd Company (Pretty much the same thing)
STUNNING! Thank you!
very cool. thats when cars were built with quality in mind!
It would be cool to know the date this footage was taken. I know my white 62 Bird came out of the Michigan plant on September 11, 1961.
I own a '63 Thunderbird hardtop (hence my username). According to the build sheet we found under the rear seat, she was built at the Wixom plant on December 10, 1962. Interestingly, there was another build sheet attached to ours; the one attached was for a Continental. Seems like the next car on the line behind her was a Connie.
55 years later, she's getting restored.
Meanwhile someones restoring a lincoln and sayin where is mah durn build sheet? Haha.
Is there some kind of registry?
That would be a hoot if that lincoln was around , you could give him his build sheet back😝
@@MrTheHillfolk There is! I uploaded both build sheets to the Tbird and Lincoln registries
@@TheThunderbird63
Oh man that's pretty cool of ya !
I had an old FORD book from the 70"s and it listsed the 1962 Tbird as having the base 390, tri-power Roadster 390, and a optional 405bhp 406 Cu In. . I have never seen a 62 Bird with a 406, but FORD claimed it existed for the Galaxie and Thunderbird line.
That was spectacular! Really awesome piece of history right there. 👍🏻😎
Great video " I was born in 62' Had my car repaired at the dealership' 05 Buick Park Avenue SE two tone silver/black one of the last 300 built' what I didn't like is the dealership trying to sale me a car' I hated that
Sell** you a car.
Both fantastic cars!
tO SEE 100 classic cars in a trailer when they are new .... is an amazing moment. Thunderbird and Lincoln '62 were the more beautiful cars early sixties. A little less magic than fifties, but more real, cosmetics details like tail of rockets not now in '60 stayed outside. More elegant to be less paraphernalia in lines. I'd say "more landed" (feet on the ground) Chris Stgo CL
That is one high tech printer for back in 1962.
great video,thanks for uploading
thanks for watching.
1:54 The Ford's first drift is tested here.
This is the most amazing footage I have ever seen. Only wish there was audio. It appears to be a Ford-made documentary film, so I can imagine there was originally narration to accompany it?
How about those fixtures and jigs?
Thing of beauty.
MY opinion of all the early sixties cars the best quality build, Ford really wanted to overcome the bad rep the 58 thru 60 Lincolns had . At least that's what I've read elsewhere and somewhat proven by the number of these cars that survive in original form.
I thought the music went good with the video. I love the old factory videos and you put a modern spin on it with the music you chose. It's better than the music that was in the commercials of the day.
No music watching this 9 years after you posted your comment!!
thank you for sharing
Those cars on the railroad cars would never make it to their destination today without graffiti spray-painted on them.
Sad but true. If I were in charge of the world, when we caught a grifitti vandal, we would get to go to their house, and spray paint their stuff. And their body. And then we’d have a public flogging.
Interesting that both these cars were of unibody construction. Explains why they were build on the same line.
This was the Wixom Assembly plant. The real genius was Ford's Rouge operation. Ford land produced Ford coal, iron ore and timber, which was loaded onto Ford ships and sent down from No. MI and WI to Rouge, where they were dumped into Ford iron, glass, chemical and electrical mills. Ford stamping, Ford transit and Ford assembly then meant... you could watch them dump ROCKS and TREES into one end of the plant and drive Mustangs out the other end. It was tremendous: American industry at its Apex.
Awesome
I think I just saw mine!😂👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Either ads made me lose hearing, or there is no sound. Love the old cars. Why I drive a Lincoln body on full frame, RWD, V8, Ride from heaven and room for all.
Wow. People made cars, not robots!
The love for the automobile used to be done with craftmanship and hand skills. Today its only numbers built by robots without a soul.
rolling art even production cars I think that's the biggest difference sincerely
Awesome!
so cool
I was told years ago that the windshield was interchangeable between the Lincoln and T-Bird in 61 to 63. Does anyone know if this is true?
very cool
Very cool, thanks for posting! Too bad there's no audio...
At 2:47, we see the engine with which she goes crusin' just as fast as she can now and has fun fun fun with.
Geez, just 6 years before I started at Wixom.
I still want to see how they bleed the brakes and do a front-end alignment because the tie-rods must adjust for the right toe-in and the height shims correct the weight issue and are set to level the car with a 160 pound driver. That is a 1962 because 63 also has the T-Bird script on the rear fender as 61-62 were front fender with a 50's soft script style.
every one had jobs could buy cars
BTW, I notice 2 more plain wagons in a row at the 6:30 mark on the top level. My 63 Tbird was a eye catcher in its deep red with black interior and the wide whitewalls.
Pull up the old plans and I’ll buy one ,Body in white. Then retro with modern technology.
I know, would be good with the sound track. But somehow that was separated.
That plant has recently been leveled to the ground. Lots of open land now.
General RV, a large RV dealer is putting up a new building.
Your Right Robert... The cars today are way better, nostalgia aside.
5:14 that looks like a Buick behind the T-Bird on the line
Hey! 6:14 ... How did that Country Squire slip on that rail car?? :-(
Retired from there in 06, Shame they tore it down.
What's with the Mercury woodie wagon at the 6:14 mark, was the wagon production shared with Lincoln while the Country Squire was a FORD plant assembly??
Interesting that the Lincoln (like Cadillac) had grey painted wheels while the TBirds were painted black.
Tragic...the Wixom plant is completely gone. Leveled and replaced by a bunch of stores.
Don't try to look for the Wixom plant today, its all torn down, like it was never there.
No robotic welding.
For all we know one of those welders could be a terminator from the future , LOL ! ! !
Hard to believe that the income levels and Standard of living helped sell close to 60'000 T-Birds for the 61-63 series. Plus, the 1960 model that hit close to 85'000 units. Today,Companies make them cheaper and faster with fewer steps for human input. They are almost begining to look alike from the Software and wind tunnel designing.
I think the 1963 ended the 50's look and was maybe the best overall design as a 4-seater.
From 1961 to 1963 Ford sold over 214,000 Thunderbirds for those 3 model years,,,
I think maybe that's the T Bird my dad owned.
im surprised the cars made it out of there unscratched or dented
Great video. While it is tempting to think cars back then were 'better" than today, having lived in that era, I disagree. Not all those hand-made welds were done, or done properly. The assembly line ran a lot faster than in these photos. Parts were often missing or improperly installed.
Robotic welding and spay booths are producing better quality cars. And let's not forget rust-proofing.
Today's cars last longer, get better mileage, have more horsepower, go faster, handle far better, are far safer, have nicer interiors, and killer stereos.
Most American cars of this era barely made it to 100,000 miles before they were junked. Today, 100,000 miles is just a starting point, even for the worst-made cars.
Nostalgia is a fine and wonderful thing. Don't let it trump reality, however.
Robert Bell....they were better looking cars, and they had a soul because they were put together by men...you advocate for humans being replaced by machines, basically, which is contemptible at best, but really, you're viewpoint is disgusting and you deserve to be mocked and ridiculed for it....
With these models Ford was determined to better assemble them and inspected more along the way , there are still plenty of early 60,s Lincolns running around today in almost perfect order. probably the best put together car of its era.
Internet forums shouldn't be a place for mocking or ridiculing anyone. Robert doesn't seem to me to be attacking human labor; I think he's pointing out, and I agree, that it's one thing to be nostalgic about great looking cars with "soul," and another to argue that many things about modern car manufacturing are better. I loved my '63 Galaxie 500, but the car I have today is far safer, more economical and more convenient. I don't have to beg it to start in -5 F. weather, among other things! ;-)
Branon, before you go off chastising a total stranger you might be better off “cleaning your own house” first by looking in the mirror at yourself. In case you forgot your American history….Henry Ford perfected the assyembly line….which over the years became more and more automated…..allowing the cost of goods to come down. So, unless you can say you’ve never, ever stepped foot into the likes of a WalMart, Target, etc. where goods a cheap…. all thanks to (job killing) automation then it’s YOU that we should be mocking for your poorly thought out remarks.
Buying these in the 90s. We're cheap. 800 complete t bird 62 yea. .rust well almost rust free on vegas area wow. Now a door costs 800?
Beautiful d sign by ford. Till mustang great 2. .gt 40 yea
Moin u own 2 pieces of history.
thank you for this video, very interesting, I have a 72 Lincoln continental, I'm thinking it was made at the Wixom plant? do you know if the 72s were still being produced there? thanks :)
+thomas ankner I'm sorry I don't really have those records. The Benson Ford Library at Greenfield Village would probably be able to help you with that. It's quite a resource. If not they know people who have tracked down build records.
+thomas ankner 1970 to 1979 were built at the Wixom plant.
yes they were. back then lincolns were ONLY made at wixom.
Thunderbirds where built at Wixom until 1976. Been 40 years
maybe that's where my Lincoln was built, thank you :)
Was this at the Wixom plant?
+Lawrence Alvarado Not sure. Need to consult the Ford folks on that one.
Ok, Thank you!
+Lawrence Alvarado --I did a tour of Wixom in 2002--it closed a few years later. Not a lot had changed from all the labor intensiveness shown in this vid. They had a small museum on the shop floor of all the great cars they bolted together there. Yes...making things.
Yes, Thunderbird and Lincoln were only built at Wixom back then.
Yes, it was Wixom (about 40 miles west of Detroit), Michigan. Some years ago, after the plant was closed, they completely torn everything down and left the site as they found it. Today, it is just a field and you would never known a factory was ever there. SAD
57 Ford 2 ton trucks for 61 model yr cars ?
Back then you could buy these cars for 5000 bucks. No automation just workers busting there butts to make quality. Now it cost 10 times as much and you get so much less.
No more T Birds either.
Those are not '63 cars, they're '62s.
Don't add music please.
No le viene bien esta musica deberia ser algo mas hacia la epoca
Ok....no offense, but the choice of music is inappropriate to say the least. Try some Mancini.
Thank fuck for mute
I've taken off the music. The people have spoken. It was stock music that TH-cam supplies. Hard to find something over 6 minutes long. Silent it is.
Look, write a poem or something and do a nice voice over . . . or maybe learn to play a guitar do a great solo over it. What would be good if you went to a garage and recorded the background sounds. You know, air wrenches, hammering and mechanics cussing and whatnot. Thanks. Regards - Bob
If you'd like to do that -- send it in and we'll see if it fits one of the now musicless videos. At this point I'm afraid I really don't the time to create the music as well as digitize the library, upload the clips and all. But happy for any help and support.
Does anyone else think that today's cars are really ugly-ass looking? The cars back then had a sleek and powerful look. Today's cars look more like a shoe.
Just imagine.
Ford spent all that money, resources and human capital to put so much quality in to these automobiles only to not put in enough to prevent them from rusting away so easily and quickly.
All that time, effort, energy, resources put in to developing these quality automobiles and falling just short of putting in a little more so that so many of them didnt turn to dust.
What a terrible shame.
If only people knew what would be the future of cars these old metal beauties would have been cared for alot more and not so quickly replaced. todays car companies are obsessed with you replacing the cars , as if they know were its going to end up or do they.its up to the public to not trust them anymore and restore old cars and refuse to purchase the new cars till they get no buyers except the government contracts that made them buy so many dodge mini vans and Kcars., The public steered away from the crap. they need to again, is it too late? bad cars ugly or cheap and ugly start life at herts rent a car or the post office.no citizen wants some cars even when they are new! can you name a few that would have never sold to the public? I hate the ECO a plastic dip stick come on why? i also have a FIT if i get stuck behind a FIT its eye sore pollution.
+thunderstorms06 Same as back then if not more so, they wanted a customer to trade every year or 2, that's why they completely redesigned the cars each year and lets remember as cool as the old cars are now a little thing called RUST took its toll in only a few years. I do agree if people only knew then, remember the 1st gas shortage when nearly any car muscle or luxury was nearly worthless and they were all sold or traded for a Toyota or Datsun. I worked for a guy who had a 75 0r 76 Eldorado for his wife and he traded it to a rice box Toyota
Agreed, had a '68 station wagon my dad bought brand new. Handed down to me because the body was starting to go in '72. Lasted until '74 when the gas tank fell out of the rear quarter panel, and there was nothing left to hook the straps to. I now drive a 15 year old SUV that if professionally cleaned and detailed would look showroom new.
@@DDS029 what a great story! Thanks for that!