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I am sure its virtually impossible these days. Most of the factories are more specialized in there output product, and inventory control is very tight. I do know that you had to know a senior guy at the "fix it" area, also had to be well enought liked or feared that no one would blow the whistle. I believe at that time the employess often put their name on the car if the were union as it went down the line. I don't think the management did. At that time even the general public could pick up a car at the factory and save the shipping.
Vincent Van Humbeeck <vincent.vanhumbeeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Got to agree with that story at least from an automobile manufacturer point
of view. I know for sure it did happen until recently within the Peugeot
factories here in France. After ordering a car, you waited for the factory
planning department to give you the serial number and all you had to do is
wait for the car to show up in the assembly line. Then, having your buddies
workers in all the right places, you could add options as the car went
along.
The last time I heard of such a thing, the employees who were found out
doing that got fired within days. They got caught because you have to take
delivery of the car thru a regular dealer and the trick was so obvious (they
really loaded the car) that the dealer employee thought there was a big
mistake in the order. So he phoned the car sales employee at the factory and
they found out the cheat.
Afte!
r multiple cases, they decided a few years ago that the serial number
would no longer be given to an employee ordering a new car thru the factory.
That stopped everything.
Of course, with a modern just-in-time production system, you could certainly
not install a bigger engine than the one you ordered ...
Vincent Van Humbeeck (France, 120 miles north of Paris)
'58 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe
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[mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]De la part de Marty Stewart
Envoyé : mardi 4 juin 2002 16:17
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Objet : Re: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
Now, I am not sure how the Mopar factories were set up but here's a little
not urban myth story for you. My uncle worked for G.M. Canada for a number
of years. The employees often took advantage of buying cars direct from the
factory. Now, if you had friends in the right places there were some!
tricks
to be pulled. G.M. had a special area that repaired major assembly line
gaffs that couldn't be fixed "on line". So my uncle ordered a 1971 4 dr
Acadian ( a Canadian Pontiac version of the Nova). He ordered it with a
Power Glide and standard V-8 (307). But it "accidently " got a 6 installed
in the assembly line so it had to go to the repair area. Most guys used
this trick to get a 350, or free a/c or upgraded stereo. He decided a 455
and turbo 400 were more appropriate. In 1971 G.M. had stopped putting big
blocks in the Nova, but they used mounts etc from the earlier models. As
far as G.M. records show and the build records,! the car left the factory
with a base V-8 and automatic, not the upgraded engine that actually went
out in the car. I had a little run in the car when I was young and it was
snappy, though he seemed more tickled with his free A/C. DOn't know what
ever became of the car, but he said there was a small number of t!
he big
block cars made like this. I don't know how the accounted for the missing
engines. Perhaps someone knows if that type of midnight shift stuff was
possible at the mopar factories. Given that the Plymouth cars were the
designate export factories, there was likely a lot of custom building to
suit overseas needs.
Tuff Shift wrote:
Yessir, and I am probably as big a skeptic as you are about it being a
"factory" job. But at least the rumors that it doesn't exist at all, are
dispelled for the time being. That was my only real purpose in mentioning
this.
Karl
>From: "Mark J. Hash"
>Reply-To: "Mark J. Hash"
>To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:30:29 -0700
>
>Cool car and all, but I'd have to see a copy of the build sheet from
>Chrysler Corp before I'd ever believe it was installed by the factory. . .
>!
>Mark mjh
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tuff Shift"
>To:
>Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 4:40 PM
>Subject: [FWDLK] Hemi Commando?
>
>
> ! > Remember the discussion about the '57 Fury/Belvedere with a 392 Hemi
>being
> > nothing more than an Urban Legend some time ago?
> >
> > Well, you'll never guess what showed up at the Mopars in the Park in
> > Shakopee Minnesota this weekend. That's right, a cream colored
>Belvedere
> > hardtop with the 392" 2 4bbl hemi nestled comfortably in the engine
> > compartment complete with official looking decals which read "hemi
> > commando".
> >
> > The owner swears it came that way from the factory. Good show by the
>way,
> > over 400 cars including quite a few FWDLK fins, '56 Dodge D500 Hemi, '57
> > Fury, '58 300D, '58 & '59 Desoto, '58 Plym 2dr Wagon !
w Fury package, '59
> > Dodge 4dr, '61 300G, etc etc etc.
> >
> > But it was that "Hemi Commando" that really made my day.
> >
> >
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