Did Flint work on Saturday ?

[James G.]

I wanted to share this with you all. I went to John Hinkley, the wizzard direct as I needed to know quickly.

My QUESTION : AN ENGINE PAD THAT I KNOW IS ORIGINAL, IS DATED F0227HG, WHICH IS A SATURDAY.

and then I asked if Flint kept building engines during the Corvette St. Louis strike in October 1964.

HERE ARE HIS ANSWERS:


Hi, Jim -

1. Yes, Flint and Tonawanda frequently worked Saturdays, and 9-hour daily shifts as well. Saturday overtime was quite common.

2. The NATIONAL strike against GM was from September 30th through October 6th; the LOCAL strike at St. Louis continued until November 6th, and didn't involve any other GM plants. Flint V-8 was only down during the national strike, so 10/15 or 10/29 engine assembly dates are legitimate,on an early Noverber 64 production car.

Regards,

John

[Roy B.]

Re: Did Flint work on Saturday ?

[James G.]

Re: Did Flint work on Saturday ?

More to the story. We all keep picking fly s--t out of the pepper.

But a good friend looked at a 65 red / red 365hp car over the weekend, and said the build tag was C09 (Monday Nov 9, 64) the engine was cast I254 ( Friday Sept 25,64) and the assembly date was F1023HH (Friday October 23, 64 ).

He was concerned that engines were not assembled during the strike, even though it all looked correct..