Assembly Plant Questions
Short answer: Quick answers on the assembly plants (not the final word):
- Were Fisher Body plants part of the Pontiac plants? Yes — usually an adjoining building.
- Did Fisher build more bodies than the local plant used? No. Fisher was responsible for the BIW (body-in-white) bare shell; each facility supported its own vehicle.
- Where were they? Part of the plant complex — the shell wasn’t built in one state and trucked to another.
- Lordstown: Firebird (from at least late 1966 into the 1970s); other Pontiac models at some point.
- Van Nuys, CA: began building Firebirds in March 1968, continuing into the 1980s. Early Firebirds didn’t share a final line across Lordstown/Van Nuys/Norwood; that came later.
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