Reproduction Parts for 1916-1964 Chevrolet Passenger Cars & 1918-1987 Chevrolet & GMC Trucks


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It's sad to see the birthplace of one of my '34s is to be demolished.

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My 1927 Landau was made there. Now I'm sad I never went to see the place.


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We have a few old Janesville assembled Chevys. Took one back when they had a Middle West meet there a number of years ago. It was in operation then.


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My 29 coupe came from there. In the truck museum in Brooks OR there is a Samson truck. I think it is about a 22 and if I remember correctly has a Chevrolet 4 cylinder. Now I know why.

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The last time I went to Iola, I stopped outside the fence at the plant and visualized my '34 being built inside those walls 82 years earlier. It was like a pilgrimage.


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There is a lot of great automotive history in Wisconsin.

Sorry to hear that the plant will be gone soon, but not surprising news, given the current state of the auto biz.


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I had the pleasure of touring the janesville plant about 1990 while on a NCRS road tour to the NCRS national convention. as we entered the old brick (non-insulated) building, the first station we encountered involved two guys.they were totally disassembling a just recently built ealry 90's chevy pickup. they said it took them about two days to do so. there were old railroad tracks going thru the middle of the plant and the workers were unloading parts off the rail cars(IN THE MIDDDLE of the roofed plant). many Silverados, suburbans and 4500 series chevy trucks were on the assembly line. the most interesting , to me, was the "booth" where the jute-backed carpets were cut to fit the various Chevys being built. the booth was enclosed in plexiglass(or window glass) so tourers could watch the moulded carpets being cut to fit the sill moldings of the vehicles being assembled. the booth had a conveyer belt feeding the oversized rug assemblies laid out on a floorpan template. as the carpets entered the booth, a very high pressure stream o water "cut" the material to size. the overspray was tremendous and without the plexiglass viewing walls, I'd been drenched. RIP janesville. mike mccagh

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The Janesville plant was the lead plant in terms of production in the early '60s. It's where the pilot cars were built, then farmed out to the other plants with a team of engineers to instruct the workers how to build the next years models and write the AIMs (Assembly Instruction Manuals).

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Our region held a Midlewest Meet in Janesville in the early 2000's and included a tour of the plant. I hadn't had a tour since about 1968 and things changed quite a bit including where you could not go in the later.
I used to run down to Jansville and peak at the new models before they were introduced. There was a "back alley"where you get get right up to the fence.

W.R.Arthur trucked the new cars out of the plant for delivery to dealers. We sold tons of parts to W,R.Arthur and would load them onto the car carrier trucks for return to their shop.

Many years ago the dealers used to go to Janesville and drive he new cars back to the dealerships. Often one car towing another behind.


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