Where was your car built?

mustang68

Did a bit of digging and i found that my car was built in San Jose in april 1968 and the factory looked like this:



It's now a shopping centre where was your car built?

alastair

I've been to that place a couple of times - They've an old Ford assembled in the factory on show - a '57 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner hardtop convertible.

Here's a video of where my yoke hails from (Olofströmm, Sweden, '73)

MercMad

Love thos Skyliner Retractables, really cool !

Mine was made in Sindelfingen in Germany, came off the production line on February 12th 1964.
Then


And now,





I have the data card too which shows the job card number and details such as tyre make, battery make, various numbers and options.

My other car was from the same factory in 1968.

Anan1

My classic was built in Stuttgart, in a country that no longer exists - West Germany.

unkel

Another Stuttgart here

Edit: here's a pic of the factory:



Note the bridge over the public road. Bodyshells are produced in the building on the left and then transported via this bridge to the building on the right to the paintshop and further assembly (engine / interior, etc.)

Camarague

Île Seguin in Paris, closed in 1987 and demolished in 2005.

peasant

My yoke was actually built in two different places.

Bodyshell and engine were built in the Hannover VW plant for commercial vehicles. The whole shebang was then shipped to Steyr-Daimler-Puch (now Magna Steyer) in Graz, Austria to get 4WD drivetrain installed and do the final assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfscHqwN98Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyzj8UJusc8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1f8YPRCcuc

kindredspirit

Built in Abingdon April 1960 and then it toddled off to Germany first, then the USA, then England and now here. It liked to get around and still does.

aravan

Mine was built in Belfast in October 1981.

This is the factory today on google earth.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.546681,-6.0159968&z=17&t=h&hl=en

galwaytt

...Peasant, that was brilliant.

..makes you wonder, sometimes. We're all quite adept, here in Motors to whinge and whine, and give about mfrs, and how 'why can't they do this' or somesuch. But look at the enormous thought and effort that goes into making vehicles. The sheer genius of it - and that's old stuff. New stuff is just mind-boggling. And at the end of all the science, somewhere, there is a guy - or girl, as shown in the vid - who makes their 9-5 by putting it together, or checking it or testing. Except there's 10's of thousands of them. These days, in these hard times, and talks of leveraged buy-outs, and strategic partnerships and 'separating from the company', and all the billions being borrowed etc, left, right and centre.....that on those huge factory floors everday......there are people. With homes, families, hobbies, lives, just like us.

Working as I do for co that has a body-building tradition, and good and all as we are at it, I have to don my hat to that now-25(?) yr old technology in the T3. Somethings from that vid stick in my mind: manually-assisted robot spraying, the set up of the front tracking etc. Anyone who's ever worked on their car, can only appreciate the incredible feat those production lines are. And anyone who's ever visited one, as tourist or as a supplier to industry (as I have)...can only but stand back and wonder sometimes, at the ingenuity of man.

So, the next time you gripe about the stupid location of the lightswitch, or the indicator on the left vs the right, remember it's not some Big Brother you're giving out about, it's Henri, or Hans (or Angelika ) or Luigi or John............who's taking a god-given talent to turn a raw material into something of worth, of value, to us. Not always in terms of money, but of satisfaction (quality), of joy (sports), of work (commercial) or need (emergency vehicle), etc.....

Sorry for the babbling...........I'm going to look out my kitchen door now...and this is what I see, and the phrase I once saw on the bottom of a Harley-Davidson ad, below a fabulously photographed Big Twin, parked on an airfield somewhere, comes to mind........God didn't create metal so man could make paper clips

Indeed.

Me, I can't wait. I'm visiting the Porsche factory again in 10 days.

Must thank Hans, and Angelika. Make life worth looking forward to, really...:)