Chrysler assembly line workers!

rp23g7 said
We go on a cruise every year, last year I met a guy that worked for Chrysler from 1960 to 1990. I was telling me a story of a Hemi theft ring going on back in the mid 60s at Chrysler.

Any one else heard of this? Undocumented Hemi's may be out there somewhere

I don't know about a theft ring but there were a LOT of Hilo drivers getting extra money by taking a pallet of engines and lifting them over the fence and Dumping them into a dump truck bed when I was working there. (Trenton engine plant)in 1970-73. that was either 5 engines or 4 depending on the racks or how they were loaded. and yeah some of them were hemi's but most was 440's since they sold better according to the hilo drivers.
you would not believe what and how they got stuff out of there. one guy got caught because his thermos was rattling. they found out that he had been taking a set of plugs and a coil(in the thermos) along with a full set of wires taped around his stomach home EVERY day he worked, the cops retrieved over 1000 coils and as many sets of plugs and wire sets from the guys basement. he never sold any of them just put them in his basement."weird". Starters and alternators just got pitched over fences to another worker and put in the cars. At the glass plant I worked at after that a foreman got caught taping a windshield to the original windshield in his vehicles and covering the edges with black tape to hide it from the security guards. He drove right to the body shop about 2 blocks away and peeled the tape off and sold it too the manager of the shop. he made a quick 80 bucks every day! until the bodyshop owner tried to do a warranty claim on a replacement windshield (no one could find records that it was ever sold). another engineer would order stuff in and have it sent to his shop and ma Chrysler didn't catch on for about 8 years, even then he just got fired and never got charged for theft.

of course we had our share of bank robbers too! one plant manager in Detroit's McGraw Glass plant would borrow a co workers car and rob the bank about 3 miles away. (robbed the darn thing 4 times before he was caught too!) a couple of engineers and hilo drivers did the same thing but the idiots used their own cars DUH!. My "fav" was the 45 waving "Fro topped female " line worker that would go out at lunch and rob a bank then come back to work after getting "lunch" of course and never in her car. she waved the gun up on high. up over her head to make sure you saw it and pointed it down to the person. dang if she'd have pulled the trigger it would have broken her wrist. My supervisor at the time recognized her from the security footage on TV and turned her in, it was AWESOME in a keystone cops kinda way! About 20 fed's showed up and had to be escorted(the idiots couldn't function in a working plant making glass, first one in the plant slipped and darn near gutted himself on raw glass cullet,the armor they were wearing too didn't even slow down the raw glass cuts!) to the area she worked at to arrest her.
I got to see that first hand and laughed me A$$ off at the comedy.

it was a wild time. people did some stupid stuff and got away with it for a LOOOONG time. but they always got caught.