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General Discussion / 1972 strike
« on: May 23, 2025, 06:37:55 PM »
Not completely related to 67-69 Camaros but interesting.
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A UAW strike hit the Norwood, OH assembly plant in early April, 1972. The strike lasted 174 days, the longest strike in GM history up to that point, and not be resolved until September 1972. The walk out left hundreds of Camaros, Firebirds, and Novas, in various stages of assembly, stranded on the production line. By the time the strike ended, production for the 1973 model year had begun at other assembly plants.
New federal bumper regulations had been implemented for the 1973 model year, and General Motors decided it was too costly to update the 1,100 1972 models left on the Norwood assembly line to 1973 standards. They were all crushed (around 40 nearly completed cars were stripped of their VIN's and donated to vocational schools).
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A UAW strike hit the Norwood, OH assembly plant in early April, 1972. The strike lasted 174 days, the longest strike in GM history up to that point, and not be resolved until September 1972. The walk out left hundreds of Camaros, Firebirds, and Novas, in various stages of assembly, stranded on the production line. By the time the strike ended, production for the 1973 model year had begun at other assembly plants.
New federal bumper regulations had been implemented for the 1973 model year, and General Motors decided it was too costly to update the 1,100 1972 models left on the Norwood assembly line to 1973 standards. They were all crushed (around 40 nearly completed cars were stripped of their VIN's and donated to vocational schools).