For my own education: can anyone here tell me - with authority - if Corvettes were built in VIN order in St Louis in this timeframe?
Most of the plants I've been in (granted - "most", not "all") had an accumulator/buffer between the body shop and another between body and paint.
This allowed cars to be shuffled around in case a specific vehicle needed extended lineside repair, to level the workload downstream on the final line, or to provide a buffer to draw from to allow the final line to keep running in the event of a parts shortage or maintenance breakdown in body/paint (which was kind of often).
Therefore: most GM assembly plants did not build in VIN order. Fremont and Baltimore would be a couple notable exceptions off the top of my head.
K
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Last edited by Keith Seymore; 07-07-2021 at 07:00 PM.
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