Then can the Vietnam war and the USA has never recovered.

It makes me feel good to see something as groovy as all this since I own a 65 Mustang coupe. These were the days,!😅

back then no one gave a shit haha

That's exactly what I was thinking. I work at the Ford plant in Kansas City. If they tried this OSHA would shut that bitch down. You'd have people getting suspended for no safety glasses, climbing on picnic tables and people spraying paint with no respirator on.

I get the feeling that this video might have been made on a night shift as kind of a pirate operation and no one at Ford corporate knew anything about it. Basically somebody at Motown knew somebody that worked in the plant, maybe it was Berry Gordy himself. This was long before the days of tight security and badges and if it had been worked out with a foreman, it would not have been that big of a deal to show up with a cameraman and the group and just start filming. The production looks very on the fly and improvised, which gives it its "cool" factor that just can't be duplicated in a more sophisticated production. Anyway, that is just my opinion.

No, this was shot with full cooperation of the Ford company. No way could a significant TV production crew sneak in and out to shoot this without permission. Ford agreed to it as free advertising for their hottest and most desirable car of the moment, the Mustang. Martha Reeves said in an interview that there was no way the production line was going to be shut down or slowed down for them in any way, so it had to be figured out where and how they were going to move through all this stuff while lip-synching their hit song. You can see Martha accidentally trip on a paint hose at 0:46 - fortunately, she doesn't fall down - and the Vandella at 0:40 appears to hit her head as she ducks under the wheel cutout of a right front body panel. She shakes her right hand as she runs past the camera as though she's reacting to the "ouch" of this unanticipated pain. The other Vandella loses her balance at 1:19 when the car body they've just climbed into lurches to the right.

Safer here than D town Detroit drive bys...

1010 WINS

2021... oh no one wearing a mask

And none of them still alive

That's what I was thinking too. I wonder if they had masks back then. I was career air force and they furnished ear protection but lots of guys didn't wear them - wish I had

+lar4305 not too many safety precautions then...lol...trust me..

Right. No PPE at all. Lol

It's forgotten that Lee Iacocca had three plants producing the Mustang: NJ, Dearborn and Milipitas, CA. And he needed them. 520,000 Mustangs that first full 1965 model year, another half million in '66. Total ICE Mustang production for MY 2023: 46,000. 😢

FORD was expecting to sell over 100,000 of them to beat the record held by the Falcon.....they sold over 600,000 for the 1965 Model year and created a new high for the VIN sequence where Mercury used the 400,000+ and Lincoln started at 800,000 . The "F" code plant in dearborn made the mustangs until the demand had FORD add 2 more plants .

Gary wood mine was made in San Jose, 66

Yeah, that's a good question!..

That's a good way to go out of business, but Unions simply dont worry about that.

+DYNO DON Exec's sure didn't worry when they paid themselves more as well, now did they?

@@RandallFlaggNY Execs are paid to make money; uaw bosses are paid to extort it.

kramden Actually from here they would go to a headlight alignment station. After that they would put on the headlight bezels.

Let's not forget the hubcaps!

+smithraymond09029 It looks like there's vents behind the parts, pulling the fumes up and out.

@@RandallFlaggNY That's true ...also water running to get heavy particulate..Just think though where those vents went to...The roof and then it was blown out in the neighborhood...I guarantee you walk by that plant when in full operation you would smaell the enamel... I know because I been there and done that...

@@bigstuff52 Well you neighborhood guys could take it!

Raymond, Don't be naïve!! I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 50s and 60s. The Northern cities were well-integrated, and we all got along!! Much better than the world we live in today. Don't believe the leftist commie "Divide and Conquer" rhetoric that is being pushed everywhere including to our innocent children in grade schools. Get the politicians out of social issues, and we will be far better off. They all have an axe to grind and are laughing all the way to the bank. Integrated schools, churches, YMCAs, Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts, town, high school and college sports teams are the natural inclusion solution. We need to return to the mentality of the 50s!! BTW, I own a 1964-1/2 Mustang: Rangoon Red, matching Red Interior, 289CID D-Code, four barrel carb, four-speed manual on the floor. All original chassis, sheet metal and body parts. Originally purchased and was in Dallas ~30 years, then ~25 years in Oklahoma. Never saw snow and will never see rain or snow as long as I own it here in Massachusetts. It's mint now and ever will be. I feel very fortunate. Thanks Lee Iacocca!!!, and WildPony1966 for posting thisl!!

The Mustang plant in Milipitas, CA also became a shopping center: The Great Mall of the Bay Area.

Mary Wells sang "My Guy" and died in 1992.This is Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. They also did "Heatwave" and "Dancing in the Street". Mary WILSON was in the Supremes.

Gotta meet takt time 😅

Not as long as the uaw remains in town.

I would love to be able to do it that quickly. It takes forever to get that thing in correctly in the shop. Here, it just slips in.

Do a few hundred of them a day you get good at the job it becomes second nature.

The hood goes on like nothing also, like a dance.

Paco Aldape no Dianne Ross sings for the supremes! It's Martha vandella the lead singer.

@@marlenathornsbeary2800 it was MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS

Chris Wright classic

Hey i am a owner of a Red Mustang convertible 1965 V8 engine and i can tell you what a jewel the car is, by the way i come from Malta and i shipped my Mustang from the US registered in Jacksonville .

BuzzBarber not trying to pick a fight,but I thought this was Dearborn😀

This was recorded on 2 inch videotape, not shot on film, and the equipment for color video would've been far too large and bulky then to have been used on a location shoot like this. It only was used in studios. Black & white video was the only option here, but most TV programming was still in b&w then anyway. The networks didn't shift to all-color primetime shows till 1966.

289 was in all 65s and all 6 cylinders had 4 lug and V8s all had 5 lug.

Martha Reeves said the line workers had no idea they would be part of a .using video. As the girls danced and sang down the the line they were yellinf: get them girls outta here we're trying to do our job.

Pastor Matthew Nope, Chevrolet suburban

Vet

@@detroitdiesel-vu3ig I believe Pastor Matthew stated "car model". I don't believe the Suburban is classified as a car. The Corvette has been in production since 1953 but I think they skipped a model year. 1983 model year was skipped.

Paul Meester @

US factories used an underfloor suction system then. There was a suction pump in the pit, filtered air was drawn in from behind/over the painters, excess overspray was sucked down under the work area. The floors were also wetted to prevent dust buildup. They're wearing white uniforms for a reason, so mgmt could tell how much overspray they were being exposed to.

@@DonBowery @?

"goes out of business due to lack of advertising"

Tight ass. Hanging out with you would be like a being at a wake

What can we expect from a six-pack-Joe like you? LOSER!

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