Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 925 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 64.142.86.133
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:25 am: | |
I hear this is where all the great mopar muscle cars started life back when. Other than that, I know very little about the plant. Where was it located? Is it still there today? Photos? Looking to learn more. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 2740 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.251.199.98
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:35 am: | |
Check out the Old Car Factories thread, if not covered yet, it will be. Happy Birthday OCF. One year old and still growing. |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2415 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:45 am: | |
Still there, east side of Mt Elliott, stretching between Huber and Lynch. Start here: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/40008.html#POST334840 , although the thread is mostly an exercise in historical geography of a local industry, without much discussion of what models were built there and when. |
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 927 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 64.142.86.133
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:51 am: | |
Is it still used or empty? |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2416 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 2:04 am: | |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/40963.html#POST338415 Not used to produce autos, and not owned by Chrysler anymore. It's still in use, but I don't know by whom or for what purpose. Like many of these former factories, it could be divided up into parcels and leased out to small companies...an industrial park under one roof. An industrial mall. |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 3:13 am: | |
My former 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner (4-on-the-floor, 400 HP, 6-barrel carb, LSD differential, 4.10 rear end, etc.) was built in 1969 in St. Louis. |
623kraw
Member Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 783 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 5:30 am: | |
It is used to build axles. Not all of what is shown still remains...
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Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve
Post Number: 2757 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.209.133.247
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:46 am: | |
Part of it is the Parade Company's headquarters. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 851 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.195
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:33 pm: | |
There are more photos on pages 2,4,& 6 of the OCF thread. Lynch Road Assembly was opened in 1929, not sure exactly when the last car was produced there. Anyone know? Desotos were also made there the first few years. |
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain
Post Number: 86 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 216.148.248.31
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 1:55 pm: | |
The last vehicle made there was the 1982 Chrysler New Yorker and the Dodge St Regis. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3161 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 6:41 pm: | |
Chrysler's Lynch Road Plant is on Lynch Road. General U.S. Grant is buried in Grant's Tomb. jjaba. |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 934 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.222.11.226
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 1:29 pm: | |
The great finned Plymouths of the late fifties were made there. |
Drm Member Username: Drm
Post Number: 878 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.220.68.156
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 1:36 pm: | |
Portland is in Oregon. So is the Oregon Trail. |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 848 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 146.9.52.21
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 2:18 pm: | |
I thought Portland was in Maine and the Oregon Trail was in Idaho but what do I know....I get lost finding Ann Arbor. |
Bate Member Username: Bate
Post Number: 65 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 71.101.227.115
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 9:43 pm: | |
If your 1969 > VIN code 7th digit is an "A" your car is built at Plymouth Lynch Road. See http://www.stockmopar.com/mopa r-vin-decoding.html My 70 Road Runner was. Enjoy |
Bate Member Username: Bate
Post Number: 66 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 71.101.227.115
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 9:55 pm: | |
Other VIN info http://users.erinet.com/30561/ vinbreakdown.htm 62-65 4th digit "1", 66-68 7th digit "1", 69-74 7th digit "A" = Lynch road. |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 938 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204
| Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 11:48 pm: | |
What about pre-'62? |
Dday Member Username: Dday
Post Number: 812 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 72.49.177.60
| Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 12:07 am: | |
quote:The great finned Plymouths of the late fifties were made there.
How funny that I should read this as I just changed my work laptop to show a red '58 Belvidere coupe. For no other reason than my grandfather worked at Lynch Road for years assembling Plymouths. Truly one of the most most underrated car designs ever made. They would blow the doors off any GM of Ford product of that time. Power, handling, amenities, you name it. Unfornately, QC wasn't exactly the best for Chrysler back then and they practically rusted on the showroom floor. It's funny how many of my co-workers are shocked when I tell then what the picture is of and no one knows. The reaction when I ask what you would rather have....that Belvidere or a 57 Chevy is also similar. Not one vote for GM. |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 940 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204
| Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 12:49 am: | |
Damn straight, Dday! |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 946 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204
| Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 7:53 pm: | |
Photos of '58 Plymouths being built on the assembly line; very possibly taken at Lynch Road: http://www.forwardlook.net/195 71958Plymouth/58Plymouthassemb lypics.htm |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3169 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 1:24 am: | |
Da day, you are funny about Plymouths rusting. It was common to see the pavement through the floor boards of a Plymouth in the 1940s, 1950s. We drove down to Cass Tech. in rust buckets like that. jjaba, Class of 59. |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 955 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.204
| Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 8:01 am: | |
Jjaba is right. The engineering was advanced and the styling was stupendous on the '55-'59 Plymouths, but the quality control/workmanship was lousy. And then there was the whole issue of the Japanese steel (supposedly made from iron that was irradiated during the '45 atomic bomb blasts and therefore substandard) that was used to build these cars, but that didn't come out 'til later. The result: rustbuckets. Floor, trunk, and headlight "eyebrow" rust was common early on; then the rear quarter panels went. Many Chrysler products of the fifties aged prematurely and were sent to the salvage-yard crushers by the late '60s. And hey, those soaring fins were just too much by then, too. Outa style. GM cars of the day were more durable, but by the late '50s, the styling was passe (the '57 Chevy had only moderate fins and was an attempt to extend the decent '55 design one more year). Then, Harley Earl tried to outdo Chrysler's Virgil Exner with the outlandish '59 GM models (batwing Chevys, delta-finned Buicks, bullet-taillights right in the fins of the Caddys). And GM cars always handled like Chris-Crafts going around corners. Not so the Chrysler cars, especially after '56, when they all got the excellent-handling torsion-bar suspension. And Chrysler had the best auto transmission in the Torqueflite. Fords of the era? They were somewhere in the middle. Average, safe styling (except maybe for the nice '57 design, all-new that year). Engineering was passable; handling was almost as bad as the GM's. Quality was a little below average; those babies rusted pretty good too. |
Dan_cluley Member Username: Dan_cluley
Post Number: 6 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 207.179.66.49
| Posted on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:05 am: | |
Okay, maybe it's not a "Muscle Car", and maybe I'm a little biased ;) but Jefferson Ave turned out some nice rides too. Seems like they had the rusting a little more under control by '65. On the one hand, it has a LOT of rust, but on the other hand, getting anything to survive 40 Michigan winters is a miracle, and I'm pretty sure any modern car with this much rust would have snapped in half by now ;) |