Yes, they were all mixed up & at times, cars with VINs over 30,000 apart were actually very close on the lines.

Wow, thinking about the required logistical management to have the right parts at the right time for that particular car must have been tough! Not to mention training of the employees on assembling different cars.

Their system worked, with over 1000 cars built a day on average.

It's not that hard.

They had an order that the cars were going to go through. The sections would line up parts in that order.

The line worker has very few tasks. Grab the part presented in order and install part. The variation from car to car is not that great. There was probably a verification step for more complicated assemblies like steering columns.

My 1970 'Cuda with a late June SPD had "Repair" written on the interior passenger rear wheel well.

At first I thought it said "Rock" because the R was very similar, and it was sort of hard to read, but when I really got to looking at it, it definitely said "Repair".

Everything looked fine to me, so I'm not sure what needed repair.
I suppose they already fixed whatever it was?

Not sure if I have pics. (at least not good ones)

Tav

I have had so many E body cars with Rock on them. Some had Rock with a star drawn on it. Rock Star I get it. I think he played in a band and worked on the line and did it as a joke just before the rear qtr. Interior panels were installed or he did put them on and signed it just before he put them on. If a supervisor or foreman seen that it would not be good for Rock. It seems he signed cool cars. I had a Real 1970 Challenger R/T Ragtop 383 Loaded Panther Pink Ragtop now in Minn. He signed that car all over. When I was 16 years old I worked for a in ground pool co in 1975. I was in charge of putting all the pool parts in boxes to go to the installers. I would right funny stuff on the boxes with the owners name. Well one day an owner seen it and came unglued. That was the end of my Rock Star signings LOL. I did not get fired but was reamed a new one. My foreman thought it was funny. The owner of the co. did not.

Now a Word REPAIR but in rock hand proves my point its an inspection mark He was checking the rear operators. Please post a picture mystery would be solved.

OK, but you said;



If not a name, what kind of inspection mark is 'Dickie' if it is not a name?

If you missed it, I posted a link to photos of other names from cars on the assembly lines earlier in the thread.

This practice still goes on today. Many new Challengers get signed [usually under the fuse box cover] BB with a happy face. BB has been identified as Brampton Builder which is quite active on the new Challenger forums.

Yes, they were all mixed up & at times, cars with VINs over 30,000 apart were actually very close on the lines. [/quote]

Wow, thinking about the required logistical management to have the right parts at the right time for that particular car must have been tough! Not to mention training of the employees on assembling different cars. [/quote]

This is why the Sequence number is easy to see at the top left of a broad cast sheet that drives the production of Vehicles, not the Vehicle Identification Number, VIN. Not sure why ROCK was put on any vehicle, an inspector would have a punch either that would put his assigned number punched into a broad cast or work sheet or and ink stamp punch. You see some of these ink inspection stamps on cars that have been stamped with OK in the engine compartment usually on or near the radiator cradle. Also there are other production sheets all over the plant that never make it into any vehicle telling the workers about what to sub assemble, the sequence number is the order on which the worker uses to build, not the VIN.

Rock was the one who threw the chicken bones inside the doors before the panel was installed. ROCK Cornish Game Hen.

Trying to show whoever wrote ROCK wrote REPAIR. So whoever did write both times different things but with one objective checking the rear windows. Unless his name was Repair because he was dropped as an infant.

I have seen Rock on a number of ebodies. When I took out the back seat and panels on my 70 A66 Challenger, I found the name "AL". Anyone ever seen this one before?

ROCK....we here on Moparts, demand that you make your presence known...come hither!

The belief is that "Rock" is no longer with us....

Sorry for the delay, I've been overly busy with other things, and am just getting back to working on cars again.
I'm surprised that I had a pic which was even this good.
The "Re" is difficult to see in this pic, but you can see the "pair" fairly well.




I really miss the old days when Moparts had its own image uploader. It had size restrictions, but it worked pretty well.
Photobucket is a big POS!
What do you guys use for image hosting so that you can post pics here?

it's pretty easy once you get a tutorial

I have to use "Snagit" to cut-down the size of all the photos I upload. Most pictures I take with my phone exceed the file size allowed (2MB) for upload directly.

Wow, That's probably EXACTLY what I needed!!

That will make life so much easier!

Thanks, I think the old file size limit was 1.5 MB.
I have photoshop now, so resizing pictures is WAY easier for me than it used to be.