Quick Question: Subframe connectors- WHY didn't they do this from the factory?

Grassy, I think your a bit off considering the techniecs of the time. Bobby is more so correct. The cars were built to acceptable standards of the time just like there done today.

Today we have a host of tech upgrades and advances that we're not available then.

Quality control may have been lacking but so at the same time, things like the mention of poor welds we're let go then. Not so today. Today, if the robot fails to do the job, a tech guy is sent in to fix the robot.

Back the. It was closer to, "Did it penetrate?" Then it's a good weld. NEXT!

It was what it was. I really don't think pride or lack of it was an issue. It just was what it was.