Saw this in a thread on PY. Probably a lot has been posted here before but thought this one was cool.
Some nice detail can be seen.

ha...I saw that there too just less than an hour ago...! nice...also has a link to some cool google @ss line photos...

Anyone know what kind of car is in front?

Would never have expected to see a different car on the line. I thought they would all be firebirds.
I see the picture was taken at 9:42 (am or pm.

Must be a staged photo.

Looks like the people in there are fake, or dolls, or just creepy......?

The quality looks too good to be a pic from 1969, the colour and the detail. Nevertheless, really nice pic. Where does it come from (besides PY)?

Looks like a Grand Prix.

Looking at the lines on the trunk, where the lock is and the roof line, I'd have to say a 1969 Caprice. And after having been in the Arlington GM plant a few times, I've seen hodge-podge lines of Escalades to Yukons to Avalanches to Suburbans, varying colors and trim packages.

That's what was stumping me. The trunk lock placement was off for a GP, but that and the RH trunk lid badge does make sense for a Caprice.

I never would have thought that Chevys and Pontiacs would be on the same line like that, so I didn't even consider it to be a Chev.

It does seem odd and confusing but after seeing the assembly lines at the plant with bare metal SUV's going down the line that all look the same and seeing them further down the line where they become a GMC or Cadillac etc... is weird. Makes you wonder why would you pay more for just a name?

I vote chevy for the car in front.

Here's another...

Lordstown made full size Chevrolets and Firebirds on the same assembly line.

That is a fantastic picture--very bright and clear.

If interested in the underbody finish--

You can see the red oxide primer under the car with red overspray from the body on some of it--especially if you enlarge it some. There may have been some black sprayed under there at assembly completion on the rear end (at least this is how many GTO's were done), but I believe this shows that on many cars, most of the underbody was not black as many cars are restored.

My Judge was heavly undercoated by the selling dealership in 1969, and I have removed some of it with a heat guy and plastic putty knives/plastic razorblades (yes, I'm crazy!). But this paint looks like new. And most all of the underbody is red oxide primer with Carousel Red on the sides of the body and any part that extended down. There is some black overspray at the rear of the car on the underbody, but most all of the black is on the rear axles and center section.

I'm just trying to make a point that many/most/all (not sure) of our cars should have primarily red oxide primer on the underbody with overspray of body color.

Great pics. I'm saving them.

That's a strange combination. It looks like single exhaust and blue valve covers, and yet they ordered red stripe tires. I can't tell which automatic transmission that is.

my car is black with lots of yellow over spray even under the gastank n stuff

Powerglide?

I'll have to ask my Dad if he still has pics from the Tonanwanda Engine Plant/foundry. Not as interesting as the assembly line pics I am sure but I do remember when I was a kid that he had several pics from inside the plant...