Chrysler factory video from '55, '58, and '60. Insight into how they were made.

[375instroke]

At 1:57, the engine code numbers are being "stamped" on the motor.  It appears to be wheels with the numbers that are rotated, and then pressed by machine into the block with a rolling motion.

At 2:15, they paint the entire engine with the exhaust manifolds installed.  I don't know why people argue about whether they are on the motor when it's painted, but here it is.

Chrysler Factory and Run Shots

This one's color.  These look like '55 Plymouths.  Seeing the cranks being forged is incredible.  Body panels stamped, a dozen engines getting decked, drilled, and bored all at the same time.

Wishes on Wheels - Chrysler Forward Look

1960

1960 Chrysler Unibody Engineerine Pt 1
1960 Chrysler Unibody Engineerine Pt 2

[Homerr]

Great videos!  Thanks for sharing.   

[Ghoste]

Those are great.  I've often wondered if there was any video made when they took all those b&w shots of 68 Chargers on the line.  Thanks for posting these.

[tan top]

Those are great.  I've often wondered if there was any video made when they took all those b&w shots of 68 Chargers on the line.  Thanks for posting these.

yes that's what I wonder too !!

good video , thanks for posting 

[Shakey]

Great videos!  Thanks for sharing.   

Very cool!   

[RallyeMike]

I love the close up of the middle finger shift of the push button trans into 2nd.

[Ghoste]

Those UAW guys.

[375instroke]

And how they're destroyed.  '69 Charger R/T crash test at :20

Chrysler Crash Tests

[375instroke]

Always wondered how they make the tooling for body panels.  This GM film shows the clay models being transformed into quarter panel dies.

Up From Clay - A Car is Born in 1959

[Homerr]

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqLTHBuq1Mg&list=UUx8z9dVv7yuiRk85J2DRVUQ

[A383Wing]

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqLTHBuq1Mg&list=UUx8z9dVv7yuiRk85J2DRVUQ

should have built that instead of the POS they have now

[UFO]

And how they're destroyed.  '69 Charger R/T crash test at :20

Chrysler Crash Tests

Was a hemi body. Exhaust resonators and front torque boxes are right in view.

[69rtse4spd]

Nice, now I can see why the cars got nicks & scratches. Also can see why so many people were needed, now a days, all the parts are lifted with air balancers, & robots. That is a lots of real steal to be lifting per shift, 190 cars an hour, part times weight of part.

[375instroke]

In the Up From Clay vid, at 25:23, they're painting cars without respirators, gloves, goggles, or anything.  Doing that every day, my god.

[Homerr]

In the Up From Clay vid, at 25:23, they're painting cars without respirators, gloves, goggles, or anything.  Doing that every day, my god.

I was wondering while watching this why there aren't some old-timers with production line stories and I saw that and thought, "Oh, because they're all long since dead."

[Ghoste]

That's how the Big 3 got in the pension trap.  When they agreed to a lot of that retirement stuff none of the UAW lived long enough to collect.

[Stegs]

And how they're destroyed.  '69 Charger R/T crash test at :20

Chrysler Crash Tests

Holy crap, i hope i never get in a wreck with my car....that thing was destroyed!!!

safety has come a long way!!

[Cooter]

Yet, there's always some moron that will argue that "these older cars are safer cause they got real metal in em".....bullsh*t.

[Homerr]

Yeah, makes me wonder how to do a very discreet full roll cage in a Charger.  I'm sure the US Tool stuff and subframe connectors are better than stock, but the car is still going to tend to taco itself.  Would love to see a way to reinforce the A and C pillar areas and across the roof.

Amazing how unibody design has come along.  I had a minor fender bender a couple of years ago ( <15mph ) in our 2002 Subaru that scuffed the bumper and I'm sure in a 2nd gen it would have been posted here as a total loss and a possible concussion.

[ECS]

I don't know why people argue about whether they are on the motor when it's painted, but here it is......

They argue because they do not extensively research or correctly assess the evidence that is found on original vehicles.  If a person thinks with a "Manufacturing" mindset, it's relatively easy to understand the expeditious nature of the Assembly Line processes.  Thank you for posting those clips.