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[TonyHuntimerRaceHome]

Hey,

Were the first gen Camaro bodies painted by humans or a bunch of spraying heads on some sort of stationary booth the body was run through? Or a little of both?

Has there been any photographic proof of how they were painted?

Thanks,
Tony Huntimer
Camaro Performers Magazine

[SmallHurst]

Given the time, I would say maybe some of the very early electrostatic guns or the typical air atomized guns with several guys in the booth. Typically, the bells on a stick started to show up in the early 80's.

[RamAirDave]

Hey Tony,

It's a little of both, depending on which process (ie primer and stripes manually, color with automatic reciprocating guns)

It's layed out pretty well here:

http://www.camaros.org/assemblyprocess.shtml

[m22mike]

You beat me to it Dave...
All Gm guys should read this paper, very helpfull in understanding the relationship between a Gm plant and Fisher Body, "Primary Author - John Hinckley"

[TonyHuntimerRaceHome]

Thanks for the link. I've read that a few times over the last year or so. There's some great information over there. It would be really awesome if some of it could be accompanied by more photos. The ones on the page are really cool parts of history. There has to be more of them out there somewhere. There also has to be some assembly differences between NOR and LOS.

[SmallHurst]

Thank you for posting this. Different process today, but same basic idea. Definately, no reflash oven!!!!!

Cameras in a paint shop are basically forbidden!!! Especially w/flashes. Nothing like a deluge system dumping down because of your photo documentary efforts!!!!!

[Mark_C]

Here you go;

Tarrytown assembly plant pictures 1960

Tarrytown was very similar to Norwood as far as layout and operations go. Never seen any significant amount of pictures from the inside of Norwood.

[Kurt S]

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It would be really awesome if some of it could be accompanied by more photos. The ones on the page are really cool parts of history. There has to be more of them out there somewhere. There also has to be some assembly differences between NOR and LOS.

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I worked really hard to find the factory pics that I did. GM took a lot, just not many have survived. I'm still working on getting more....
The differences between the plants is discussed in the article. There aren't many.
GM's plants were laid out pretty much the same way. Look at those Tarrytown pics - they are the same process as NOR, just 10 years earlier.

[TonyHuntimerRaceHome]

Those are some great photos. Thanks for the link.

Tony Huntimer
Camaro Performers Magazine

[Nova Research Project]

I found the 1962 Nova pre-production assembly line pics and many of the Camaro pictures used in the CRG article. The GM media archives explained that many pictures have not been scanned yet and many are not even indexed. Research then was big $ per hour for them to continue looking.

Greg