[Keith Seymore]

So - to bring it back around to Chevrolet Assembly plants - when I ran the Fender Set area my guy was the one that built these floor mounted shifters up.

He was given a build manifest (a copy of each build sheet for every vehicle to be built that day) ahead of the shift. He would sit at the picnic table, cigarette in one hand and red crayon in the other, and mark every vehicle that had either the M20 (creeper gear) or MY6 (overdrive) transmission and then build them up: take the shift lever and add the boot and retainer ring and appropriate knob and then stage them on a lineside rack. When the correct vehicle presented itself he would stab the shifter assembly into the trans and screw the boot/retaining ring to the floor.

He also did all the RPO U01 cab high running lights with a manual "Yankee screwdriver", which allowed him to work up the line all the way to body drop, and installed every SPID label and Camper Loading label in the glovebox.

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