MoPar quirks and/or anomalies

mbaird said

Makes sense . Many believe the production process to have been an exact and precise system back then .
But I suspected it was a much looser environment . I remember getting new vehicles delivered to the dealership with incorrect emblems or grills etc even in the early 90s. At both GM and Chrysler dealers...

Yesterday we went to a friends for Thanksgiving . Turns out her father worked at the St. Louis plant from 1974-1992 as a T&D guy and later in management. One item I asked him about was if employee ordered vehicles got special treatment . He smiled and said yes . Someone would sort of follow the car/truck along the line .

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Concerning how employee bought vehicles were assembled. At IH back when they built Scouts, they would allow the employee that ordered the Scout to walk the assembly line as the the vehicle was built. However they had to stop that process as for popular well known employees as the Scout was being built the assembly line workers regardless of how the vehicle was suppose to be built, theywould install high end options. For example if an AM radio was specified they would put in the top of the line AM FM. Standard interior, no,, the line workers would put in a Deluxe interior, chrome wheels in place of steel wheels and so forth. It would cost more to send the vehicle to repair than to go ahead and send the vehicle so they stopped the practice of allowing employees to watch their Scout being built.