We’ve got this 30 minute video starting just past halfway so that you are seeing how 1955 Chevrolet’s are made from iron ore all the way through driving to the mall, but if you have the 30 minutes to watch you should start it at the beginning to see how all the raw materials of the country end up making something we all know and love, the 1955 Chevy. This video is a testament to the hard work, development, engineering, and passion that America was forged from. It truly is awesome. Special moments in this video include the iron ore being made into steel and bumpers being formed, ground, polished, and chromed, bodies being dropped on finished chassis, and our favorite the forging of crankshafts. We’re talking giant sticks of molten steel being manhandled by one guy with some kind of handle, while another guy keeps it hot with a giant torch, and all the while some GIANT forge is pounding the ever loving hell out of the thing. You’ll rewind it several times. We did.
If you don’t talk to your computer several times while watching this video then we will be surprised. Check it out.
that made wood…
All the parts they show being produced are for either 53 or 54 Chevys not 55. It doesn’t start to show anything 55 until that 55 body is dropped on the chassis.
I noticed in the very beginning that the copyright date was 1951 (MCMLI). This is definitely an assemblage by GM of footage produced at dfifferent times. Close to the very end there is a fastback type coupe on the road and 1952 was the last year for those.
America F$&@ Yeah
too bad we didn’t see the manufacture of a time machine
having worked for general motors for 28 years its sad to see most of the new vehicles are built with all foreign parts and labor,, 12 us plants out of almost 70 3 being powertrain and 1 delphi electronics
yeah, I didn’t hear the word “China” once in the video. Damn shame . . .
I have owned a gypsy red and shoreline beige double nickle just like the one in the top picture since 1970, Truly America’s first muscle car. Jap and Korean junk cannot compare.
Best video ever! Wish we could do that again, America could use good hard working jobs!!
My 56 Bel-air was born in that plant and is still driving me to work everyday. Now that’s GREEN. I cryed at the end, great film.
Within 10 years poor quality control, lack of thoughtful design, greedy unions and more expensive gas would begin the drive of the American Whale from American roads almost to extinction and put uncounted, poorly educated people out of work. This is a story of how to ruin a business…not one of success.
And we eventually figured out that the whole ever-farther-flung out car-dependent suburb thing wasn’t sustainable forever, and that we were destroying our cities in the process. But hardly anyone could see that in ’55.
Good stuff guys, good stuff