Allpar interview with the Product Planner of the Challenger

Postby jh27n0b » 12 May 2009 18:31

I think that this is a neat interview. Interesting little tidbits that I did not know.
Bob
User avatar
jh27n0b
Frequent Poster
 
Posts: 389
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 12:05
Location: Indiana
Top

Postby jh27n0b » 12 May 2009 18:32

OOPS, I forgot the link.
http://www.allpar.com/model/challenger-memories.html
User avatar
jh27n0b
Frequent Poster
 
Posts: 389
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 12:05
Location: Indiana
Top

Postby patrick » 13 May 2009 4:36

Good read, Bob! :thumbsup:
User avatar
patrick
Frequent Poster
 
Posts: 1323
Joined: 09 Jul 2007 0:56
Location: Washington State, U.S.A.
Top

Postby christer » 14 May 2009 14:02

patrick wrote:Good read, Bob! :thumbsup:


I agree with that! :nod:

Bill Wetherhold wrote:Their doors weighed 87 pounds [before adding hardware and glass]. They had little cranes overhead that had hooks, where you could pick up the door, and maneuver it into the rack. They didn’t work at the time, so when you got to work, you had to pick them up by hand …


It is no news that the doors are heavy. Now I know exactly how heavy they are. :shock:

Burton Bouwkamp wrote:The door trim panels were a problem! Besides being hard to the touch the polypropylene material was unstable and every door panel was a little different dimensionally which made a problem for Car Assembly. The material was flexible so the assembler could force it to fit. Bob Steere (Chief Engineer of Car Assembly) was very critical of this new application for polypropylene.


I am thinking of a guy I once met. He was complaining about the bad fit of his repro interior panels. :lol: :lol: :lol: If he had read this article before then he had probably been less critical.
christer
Ghost 48
 
Posts: 2133
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 19:52
Location: Sweden
Top