Re: After the Packard plant closed...

Posted by BH On 2010/9/29 10:05:44

Great overview, MrPushbutton.

Having worked in the field for Chrysler for a few years (a whole 'nuther lifetime ago), let me add that after Chrysler bought AMC, they moved M-body (Fifth Ave, Diplomat, GranFury) production from their St. Louis plant to Kenosha for 1987-89. However, they must have been looking for sufficient reason to shutdown that facility as they had us writing product quality reports on every Kenosha-built Chrysler we could find on the dealer lots. Ironically, those cars were built better by former AMC workers than any M-body I'd seen that was built by Chrysler workers.

Still, after M-body production ended, they bulldozed the Kenosha plant. What a waste of good talent.