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I don't know, but I can say there is logic in doing the exact opposite. We purposefully mix things up on the Kenworth production line in order to balance out the workflow. Even fleets of exact trucks (all identical options/colors etc) are spread out.

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While I believe you. It seems counterproductive?? I would think that any factory that has a "non conventional" project would be better off doing them at the same time, to not upset the daily production of the "bread and butter" stuff? But hey, what do I know?

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Cars were not built in batches of the same VIN prefix. They occasionally have the same VIN prefix & sheduled production date, but they may have been actually been built thousands of cars apart.

See https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...e=0&fpart=1 for more information.

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Interesting....

Then can we assume(as in the case of the two 71 Hemi Cars in the original post), that it was purely a coincidence?.

Great info, as always..

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I don't know, but I can say there is logic in doing the exact opposite. We purposefully mix things up on the Kenworth production line in order to balance out the workflow. Even fleets of exact trucks (all identical options/colors etc) are spread out.

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While I believe you. It seems counterproductive?? I would think that any factory that has a "non conventional" project would be better off doing them at the same time, to not upset the daily production of the "bread and butter" stuff? But hey, what do I know?

MB

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An example.

Say that you had ten high option Challenger SEs. Due to the extra trim & equipment, these cars took more time to build.

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If you slip in few plain jane Valiants or Dusters in between the higher end cars, they take less time. This allowed the lines to keep moving at a nice, even rate instead of getting bogged down with the builds that took more time.

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True...

I was just thinking that the "jigging" had to be all different for the Hemi cars. K frames, wiring, exhaust, just about everything different. Rather than switch everything around in between, then they can run a bunch at the same time...But, I am saying this with NO experience whatsoever with automobile production assembly lines, so I may be just

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I would think the only time we would see batches of similar vehicles was on the first and second day of model year production when company show cars etc were built and there wasn't the same committment to maintaining assembly quotas for the day.

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Looking at several of Tim Wellborn's 71 Charger Hemi cars this weekend at the MCACN show, and talking with him, he says he has 5 consecutive number cars, and all of them that he owns are very close together.

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I don't know, but I can say there is logic in doing the exact opposite. We purposefully mix things up on the Kenworth production line in order to balance out the workflow. Even fleets of exact trucks (all identical options/colors etc) are spread out.

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and yet at the Western Star plant, identically ordered trucks were always built together.....




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From everything I've read over the years the '66-'71 street Hemis were considered normal production cars built on the line along side everything else. These weren't specialty cars like the Hemi Darts, Superbirds, Daytona Chargers, or Charger 500's. When you think of it, there are really very few parts that were Hemi only.

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From everything I've read over the years the '66-'71 street Hemis were considered normal production cars built on the line along side everything else. These weren't specialty cars like the Hemi Darts, Superbirds, Daytona Chargers, or Charger 500's. When you think of it, there are really very few parts that were Hemi only.

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From everything I've read over the years the '66-'71 street Hemis were considered normal production cars built on the line along side everything else. These weren't specialty cars like the Hemi Darts, Superbirds, Daytona Chargers, or Charger 500's. When you think of it, there are really very few parts that were Hemi only.

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That is the way it was. The only batching that would go on other then the special cars that were already noted was in the paint area and convt's, if possible. Even today convt's go into a unique cell because of the time it takes to install the top mechanism and general complexity of the configuration.

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Then why bother with the "SPECIAL HANDLING" instructions on the broadcast?

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From everything I've read over the years the '66-'71 street Hemis were considered normal production cars built on the line along side everything else. These weren't specialty cars like the Hemi Darts, Superbirds, Daytona Chargers, or Charger 500's. When you think of it, there are really very few parts that were Hemi only.

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That is the way it was. The only batching that would go on other then the special cars that were already noted was in the paint area and convt's, if possible. Even today convt's go into a unique cell because of the time it takes to install the top mechanism and general complexity of the configuration.

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Then why bother with the "SPECIAL HANDLING" instructions on the broadcast?

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I always wondered this...

He(orig owner), placed the order and there were several delays from the dealer(factory). Was this because they had to take orders and build them in batches?

Anyone have any insight??

MB

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