Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

[Joseph T.]

Are those your trailing arms in the bin?

[Loren L.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Photos should be labelled:

"GM: THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY!!"

[Chris E.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Keep These Pictures Coming!!!!:d

[Henry S.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Super pictures Joe, Thanks for sharing!!

[Joe L.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Joe------


I wonder what was supplied in the bin stenciled "Chevrolet Cleveland" seen in the background? I believe that Chevrolet-Cleveland was the manufacturing plant for some early Powerglide transmissions (the cast iron case variety, I think). However, these were not being used in Corvettes by 1964. I believe that 64 Powerglides for Corvettes were supplied by Chevrolet-Toledo. Plus, I don't think that transmissions were supplied in this sort of bin, anyway.

Chevrolet also had a metal stamping plant near Cleveland in Parma, OH. However, I believe that plant was known as Chevrolet-Parma. I think it was a body stampings plant and, thus, it wouldn't have made parts for Corvettes.

So, I wonder what was in those bins?

[Don L.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Being in the automotive supply business for many (too many?) years, I can say with confidence, that there is no discipline when it comes to returning shipping containers (bins) to their rightful point of origin. GM, like all other OEM's, move bins by their GM designated model number, not by the name stenciled on it. (I think this bin is a GM 5191?)

To the assembly plant, a bin is a bin is a bin. Bins get out of designated loops when common bin numbers are used by multiple GM plants/suppliers .

[Joseph T.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Being in the automotive supply business for many (too many?) years, I can say with confidence, that there is no discipline when it comes to returning shipping containers (bins) to their rightful point of origin. GM, like all other OEM's, move bins by their GM designated model number, not by the name stenciled on it. (I think this bin is a GM 5191?)

To the assembly plant, a bin is a bin is a bin. Bins get out of designated loops when common bin numbers are used by multiple GM plants/suppliers .

Don...I suspect you are right..

Reusing a bin regardless of its origin was probably the norm either out of convenience or to save money..although pictures like this and questions and comments like Joe Lucia's bring up even more things to consider.

As time moves on these details get get harder to determine.

Joe Trybulec

[Thomas N.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

It is hard to imagine that the paint on the trailing arms (especially in the bottom of the bin) faired too well. With the brackets for the brake hose mounting in contact with the other trailing arms, I can't see from the picture any cardboard between the layers or the sides of the pallet crate, but even though, I can't see the paint surviving perfectly during shipping and handling.

[Joseph T.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

It is hard to imagine that the paint on the trailing arms (especially in the bottom of the bin) faired too well. With the brackets for the brake hose mounting in contact with the other trailing arms, I can't see from the picture any cardboard between the layers or the sides of the pallet crate, but even though, I can't see the paint surviving perfectly during shipping and handling.

It gives a new meaning to as delivered!

[John H.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Chevrolet also had a metal stamping plant near Cleveland in Parma, OH. However, I believe that plant was known as Chevrolet-Parma. I think it was a body stampings plant and, thus, it wouldn't have made parts for Corvettes.

So, I wonder what was in those bins?

Joe -

That's correct - Parma was primarily a stamping plant. That Cleveland bin probably had driveshafts or half-shafts in it; I remember Chevy II driveshafts being in Cleveland bins/gondolas on my Chassis Line at Willow Run in '64-'66.

[Greg M.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

I am just curious, what is the legal position on uploading or publishing original GM pictures such as these? Don't get me wrong, I like to see them and want to see more! The reason I ask is that I have in my collection several original GM Corvette pictures from 1960. I have never seen the pictures I have, published or shown anywhere. I have showed them to a few people and one is a fellow NCRS member that is in the process of writing a book on 1958-1960 corvettes and wants to include them in his book. I got them from a GM employee and don't want to ruffle any feathers! I was given the corvette photographs after I inquired at the time to this GM employee when he gave a few hundred 1955-1956-1957 chevrolet photographs to one of the national organizations.

Greg
1960 Corvette

[Joseph T.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

I am just curious, what is the legal position on uploading or publishing original GM pictures such as these? Don't get me wrong, I like to see them and want to see more! The reason I ask is that I have in my collection several original GM Corvette pictures from 1960. I have never seen the pictures I have, published or shown anywhere. I have showed them to a few people and one is a fellow NCRS member that is in the process of writing a book on 1958-1960 corvettes and wants to include them in his book. I got them from a GM employee and don't want to ruffle any feathers! I was given the corvette photographs after I inquired at the time to this GM employee when he gave a few hundred 1955-1956-1957 chevrolet photographs to one of the national organizations.

Greg
1960 Corvette

Greg

I would recommend getting clearance from GM Media if publishing for profit.

[David J.]

Re: Did your 1964 engine rest in one of these racks at the St.Louis Corvette Plant

Are those your trailing arms in the bin?

I really enjoy these old photos. These containers are the ones used to take parts to the assembly line and replace the empty ones. I see rear trailing arms. I would enjoy going through those boxes next to the trailing arms.