What were the names and locations of the Factories?..

[Brock Samson]

...that made the Chargers?.. were there any differences between them?.
any pics?.. What's Hamtramick mean? is it Polish?. DOH! 

[Blown70]

...that made the Chargers?.. were there any differences between them?.
any pics?.. What's Hamtramick mean? is it Polish?. DOH!  

I think that is in MICHIGAN?

[Brock Samson]

Stop jokin around!   

[Blown70]

Stop jokin around!     

Ok,  I'll go back to my corner now

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

 The 69's were built at both plants....

Hamtramck, MI

St. Louis, MO

70's were built at St. Louis only

not sure on the 68's or the first or third gens

[Ghoste]

Hamtramck is a suburb of Detroit that formerly housed the palnt that was also known as "Dodge Main".  It was torn down many years ago.  I believe the 68's were built at Hamtramck and St. Louis and the 66-67's were all built at Dodge Main.  I thought 69's came from Lynch Road or St. Louis?  I think 71's came from Lynch Road, St. Louis, or Los Angeles.
However, I reserve the right to be wrong on any or all of this information.

[JimShine]

I knew a guy who is from Hamtramck who has this little peeve about how people say it. He always stresses it is Ham-tram-ik, not Ham-track. I guess it is very common for people to mis-pronounce it. 

[Ghoste]

I've never heard it any other way but hamtram-ick.  Must be a non-local thing.
I remember when they took the Dodge Main plant down and Gary Rollins from the long defunct Rapid Transit club was selling bricks from the plant as paper weights.
I swiped some bricks from the Stroh's Brewery on Gratiot when they razed it.

[71 RT]

I know some of the 3rd gernerations were made in St. Louis, and Lynch Road, Michigan. 

[Brock Samson]

well my '69 was from Hamtramick... most were as near as I can tell... 

[Spartan]

Ya, I know both my dad's 67's were from Dodge Main.  My 69 was also.  My wife's family is from Hamtramck.....She goes back ther once in a while to shop at a couple Polish stores but Hamtramck basically a dump now. One of my Chrysler engineers I deal with used to work at Dodge main back in the late 60's and early 70's.  He had some great stories...He said they used to laugh when they put a newbie in as a guy who drives the car off the line and to the parking lot,  the first time they get in a BB and step on it someone would always fishtail one into a plant pillar or column and then drive it down to the body shop to get he dents fixed, lol.

[Ghoste]

I've heard it was pretty tight coming off the end of the line.  A very sudden 90 degree corner to get the cars out or something like that as soon as they left the line.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

No 69's or 70's were built at Lynch Rd

[Ghoste]

No 69's?

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

69 Chargers anyway

[ScottW]

My 71 decodes as built at Los Angeles & my 74 decodes as being built at St. Louis. Both are originally California cars.

[psykicpup]

our '73 was from St Louis

[cudaken]

 I have done a couple of 68 made at Hamtramck and a couple from St Louis. The Hamtramck car's seem to have a driffrent color of primer (Red) and the St Louis cars where a light sort of blue green. The Hamtramck seeem to less rust.

Has anyone else seen this? My Charger was from the St Louis plant, and rust every where.

                                     Cuda Ken

[golden73]

I have done a couple of 68 made at Hamtramck and a couple from St Louis. The Hamtramck car's seem to have a driffrent color of primer (Red) and the St Louis cars where a light sort of blue green. The Hamtramck seeem to less rust.

Has anyone else seen this? My Charger was from the St Louis plant, and rust every where.

Cuda Ken

My 73 is from St Louis, but since its a original cali car, no rust for me

[JimShine]

Both of my Chargers are Hamtramck cars. The '68 was white and that primer is a pale gray and is very tough to strip off. The paint will fall off from chemical stripper, but I need a wheel to get all of that primer off.

The '69 was F3 green and that was primed in the red primer. Not sure how tough that one is as I never stripped that car.

Both cars are native New England cars and both exhibit less rust than many others I have seen in the region.

[cudaken]

 Primer may have been keyed to the color the car was going to be painted. Hamtramck cars, one was Red and other one Gold (Sorry don' have the paint codes handy), St Louis car's, one was frost blue and the other one brozen. Don't seem rhyme or reason to it tho.

                                       Cuda Ken

[haueter66]

my 71 was built at St. Louis and was a california car

[BigBlackDodge]

Info on Dodge Main................courtesy of Allpar.

http://www.allpar.com/corporate/dodge-main.html

BBD

[ScottW]

I just ran accross this site - courtesy of JohnnyB's ?? site:

http://www.mmcdetroit.com/Photographs/

[BigBlackDodge]

I just ran accross this site - courtesy of JohnnyB's ?? site:

http://www.mmcdetroit.com/Photographs/

Thanks for the link...................I love that kinda stuff.

BBD