Steve Bird

HAVING BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE

General Motors Institute in August 1970, I became an engineering co-op student at Buick Motor Division. Buick was a vertically integrated manufacturing facility, over two miles long and a half mile wide. The plant was so large it was assigned its own zip code: 48550.

One day, while I was working in final assembly, everyone was all abuzz about a car going down the line. It had every option on it, which almost never happened. It was a 1972 Buick GSX, and we found out it was going to the King