Anyone here ever worked at a Chrysler plant ?

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Has anyone on this board ever worked for a Chrysler plant, particularly dodge main / hamtramk??

Anyone work for any other US car company as well???

I have a few questions for you if you did.
 
Hell yeah. Karl has worked for Chrysler. @krazykuda I worked at the Ford plant in Doravile, Georgia for a very short time as part of an apprenticeship when I worked at the local Ford dealer.......about 1981.
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
Has anyone on this board ever worked for a Chrysler plant, particularly dodge main / hamtramk??

Anyone work for any other US car company as well???

I have a few questions for you if you did.
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RustyRatRod said:
Hell yeah. Karl has worked for Chrysler. @krazykuda I worked at the Ford plant in Doravile, Georgia for a very short time as part of an apprenticeship when I worked at the local Ford dealer.......about 1981.
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Dodge Main/Hamtramk was closed long before I got into Chrysler...

I would have loved to have worked there as my first Mopar was a 71 Challenger 340 convertible was made there....

I worked at Jeep Truck first, then Warren Truck Assembly, then Trenton Engine...


This is interesting, when I googled Dodge Main, this link came up from Marygrove College... My ex-wife's mother worked at Marygrove for many years and retired as head of the language department...

I took a class there once on how to do home electricity work to help me do some improvements on my house...

Dodge Main, Literary Map of Detroit
 
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I have a neighbor that worked at the St. Louis plant beginning in 1968. He retired thirty years later. Unfortunately he is not a gear head and I’ve never gotten him to talk a lot about the cars.
 
Worked @ Hamtramck from '77 til it closed in '80. mostly they were building aspen/volare's and diplomats, I missed the muscle car era there.
Throughout the years I worked at vernor tool & die, 8 mile stamping , Outer drive, Detroit Trim, Windor Assy,(mini van era), St. Louis 1& 2, Nerwark assy. Belvidere assy, Warren Stamping, Sterling Assy., Brampton/Bramalea Assy.( Charger/300 and Challenger launch) And Auburn Hills (tech center).
 
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Rainy Day Auto said:
Has anyone on this board ever worked for a Chrysler plant, particularly dodge main / hamtramk??

Anyone work for any other US car company as well???

I have a few questions for you if you did.
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yeah I worked at trenton engine, McGraw Glass plant and a little bit at dodge main.
 
Father worked for Chrysler Twinsburg Stamping Plant. Ohio. was there almost 30 years.
 
I worked at Warren Stamping, Warren Truck Plant, Chrysler Engineering in Highland Park, and Chrysler Tech Center in Auburn Hills --- from Aug of 1972 thru Dec 2002.

I also did new production launches at both the St. Louis and Windsor Assembly plants for the minivan.
 
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I worked at Chrysler's Indianapolis Foundry for 4 years as a contract electrician. Man, those were the good old days!
The plant was shut down and demolished in the early 2000s, and the machinery that wasn't scrapped went to Mexico and China.
 
I worked for Chrysler engineering & during a new product launch I was in the plants for a week or two.
Worked at various car/truck and also engine plants.
It still amazes me when I think that we were making over 1500 of my 5.2L V8 Magnum engines a day; my ‘99 Jeep 4.0L was something like 1,800 a day - Phenomenal!
 
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I worked for Chrysler engineering & during a new product launch I was in the plants for a week or two.
Worked at various car/truck and also engine plants.
It still amazes me when I think that we were making over 1500 of my 5.2L V8 Magnum engines a day; my ‘99 Jeep 4.0L was something like 1,800 a day - Phenomenal!
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I worked in the core building mostly. It was pretty cool! A V8 core really looked like it was going to be a V8, but the 6 cylinder cores were made 2 at a time and they looked like Chrysler was making some giant flat 12 cylinder engine!
 
I never went to Indy.
The few times I went to the foundry I thought it was a tough gig; first there was usually a sign that said we have not had an injury in some single or maybe double digit days, it was hot, dirty & had a rather unpleasant odor.
But that was where the serious stuff was made.
 
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I never went to Indy.
The few times I went to the foundry I thought it was a tough gig; first there was usually a sign that said we have not had an injury in some single of maybe double digit days, it was hot, dirty & had a rather unpleasant odor.
But that was where the serious stuff was made.
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I spent 17 years in that other large foundry in Indy, the IH / Navistar foundry on the SE side of town. I was active with AFS back in those days. Went on several tours of the Chrysler Harding Street Foundry. I remember back in the 80’s that Chrysler foundry put in a rather unique green sand molding process called ‘Impact Molding’. Was said to be state of the art molding technology back then.
 
I've never worked at a plant, but I have toured a few of the Mopar Pats distribution plants.
My brother works for Ford at the transmission plant in Sharonville Oh.
He's been all over the US working in various plants for Ford over the years. He finally has enough seniority they won't farm him out anymore.
 
My uncle worked for AirTemp for 6 months in 1969.

He got recalled in 1981 after the bailout/payback and worked there again until his death in 1997.

By the time I was old enough to work, a good factory job was as good as impossible to come into.

My uncle screwed heads on compressors all day, and made about $42,000 in 1980's money.

I worked at a TV picture tube frame factory for about 8 months in 1987 for minimum wage ($3.35). I ran two different MIG welding machines and two different stamping presses.
The dual MIG machine they usually put me on was the slowest machine in the shop. The cutter (shear) ahead of it in the shop was the fastest machine. The cutter operator was always on break. The first stamp press after the dual MIG was the second fastest machine in the shop. If there were no assemblies finished from the dual MIG, then that operator was on break. The dual MIG operator was NEVER on break.

I'm glad that experience was a part of my life but I am also glad that it was not a 30 year part of my life.
 
Never worked at a Mopar plant but delivered a whole bunch of parts to the assembly plants and even some stuff between the Skunk Works and outside suppliers. Saw the second gen. Durango two years before intro. New pickups in '02 were disguised with Ford fenders and boxes. Saw new hemi heads on the dock and were told those were for a new 4 banger...
 
I worked in the auto industry for 24 year's. Worked at a GM dealership fresh out of school. Worked for a brake line and tubing company 22 years until I had to retire. I worked for engineering the last 12 years and did a lot of traveling to several auto factory's US and Canada to study problems and ensure quality. Did tech work with tooling worked with CAD design and ran a CMM. I worked mostly with Toyota, Ford and Honda, even did some stuff for Harley Davidson for a short period. I really miss the Auto industry sure wish my health would've held up a little longer, I was not ready for early retirement i love the auto industry and really enjoyed working in it.
 
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