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Well I don't agree with your statement at all Gene.

Where exactly do you believe that the bodies were built?

Passenger car bodies were built at an a Fisher Body plant and shipped to the Chevrolet assembly plant. Most bodies were built at a Fisher Body plant adjoining the assembly plant.
Truck bodies were built by Chevrolet and shipped to an assembly plant. There again often adjoining the assembly plant.
The building of the body, while on a body assembly line would have taken way too long to keep up with a moving final assembly line. The body would need to be finished well before arriving at the assembly line.
If you ever went on a plant tour this would have been obvious.

Gene is absolutely correct.
Along with the cars....all truck bodies were pre-assembled in a separate shop way before they ever hit the official "Assembly Line ".

After basic body assembly....all bodies then went to a separate paint shop.....
{ again... far away from the official assembly line }.

So to the question: where was this plant? I worked for GM Media Archives 24 years ago pulling and identifying GMC Pontiac assembly line images where I got many of the images I share and most are now for sale in the GM photo store. While clearly these cabs were constructed, all the images i have indicate they were made in Pontiac.

The images you posted don't confirm anything about location. Where were these cabs built and then do you claim that all (GMC) trucks, panels, suburbans, medium and heavy duty cabs were constructed off site from the Pontiac assembly line?

Obviously they are constructed, but the question is where since you have claimed they were built elsewhere.

Posting a bunch of "DO NOT COPY" photos of cabs being assembled tells us nothing. I can post photos without "DO NOT COPY" of the assembly line until the cows come home. Remember, GMC is not Chevy.

Completed cabs at the moment they actually enter the official " assembly line ".

GMC { AKA Pontiac } assembly line....




Chevrolet { AKA Chevrolet } assembly line....








If the pictures are not marked with Do Not Copy....
You will steal them all & watermark them with your GMC logo

As long as we are on the subject of " Pirated "
Chevrolet pictures being pawned off as being GMC pictures....


The image posted earlier by this so called GMC "expert" is actually taken from a Chevrolet publication entitled:
" Chevrolet - Los Angeles Division Assembly Plant Preview 1948 "

Although the picture posted above by the GMC guy is claimed to be a GMC document ....
{ And he even went out of his way to brand it with his GMC watermark }....

It is actually a picture of a Chevrolet truck body in the Van Nuys California Chevrolet assembly plant publication

MotherTrucker, it's good to see you are still your contentious self, but with yet another a new ID. How many times have you been thrown out of this forum now? You have to hold the record and you must be running out of catchy names to use when you keep re-registering trying to fool the admins here that's not really you. So your answer is that all the GMC truck bodies were manufactured in Van Nuys California and then sent to Pontiac?

Where were the GMC trucks assembeld in the 1940's and 1950's ?

Pontiac MI from 1912 through the 1950s. In '48, GMC arranged to assemble light duty and some medium duty GMC trucks at the Oakland and St. Louis Chevy truck assembly plants

Stanley's new Holmes wrecker is ready to recover.

1912 GMC Electric Truck. GMC built both gasoline and electric trucks from 1912 to 1915 but battery limitations gave way to internal combustion engines and continued for the next 104 plus years.

The new 1952 GMC trucks are on display at the fairgrounds.

Fitting "in the hood"

1930 GMC Trucks Pontiac Michigan Assembly Line

Light and medium duty GMC trucks reach the end of the line in Pontiac in this original 1930 GMC factory image. Times have changed ungh?

Hey Elon Musk - GMC was making electric drive trucks 108 years ago.

37 Millionth Chevy Built!

nice

Hi,
I saw your picture of your car. Very nice.
Say this is a shot in the dark, question for you.
I'm working on a 1934 Dodge coupe now. I watched on
youtube about restoring a 1934 2dr sedan {1934}.
I have made a request to the company the made the youtube
show but NO reply. another led went dead!!
I would like to ask you where you live are there any of these care around???
If so I'm looking for parts. I will give you my email address so if you run a cross
anyone there could help me out. No one in the States have parts.
email is carhauler1999@aol.com Thank you Happy Holidays

1957 GMC 101-8 DeLuxe Cab 1/2 ton Suburban Pickup with 347 V8 Engine - Original GMC factory product color photograph