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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
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My dad made the die that made that truck grille, at Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing (Pressed Metal Division, aka "Chevy in the Hole").
The tooling used to break the punches off and you would run scrap until somebody noticed.
Back then you could be paid for suggestions that were implemented, with payment coming through the GM Suggestion Program.
He made enough money from suggestions on that part alone that he paid cash for our new '69 GMC pickup.
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