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A very special note of appreciation to Lou Champeau. Lou is our "Staff Researcher". This section along with lots of parts of this site would not be possible without Lou's help. He is just a wealth of information. Thank you Lou at vehicleone@hotmail.com _______________________________________________________________________________________
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FIRST AND LAST DAY OF 1957 FORD PRODUCTION: Data Plate wise the earliest production date ( I have this at several plants) is 14J which is September 14, 1956, but I have talked with several Ford engineers and fleet sales people who worked for Ford in the 50's and early 60's. They have told me that around August 15th the plants shut down and the change over to the new model takes about 2 weeks (the '57 change over took longer because it was a completely new car). Then around August 28th the assembly lines are run very slow and 10 cars of every model are built if no problems are found, production starts the next day with the line getting up to full speed in 48 hours. However the '57 line was not problem free, September 2nd and 3rd were a weekend and the 4th was Labor Day. There was limited production on the last days of August and full production started (most likely) very early September 5th. As for the last '57 that would be a Thunderbird E7FH 395813 built 13Z, December 13, 1957. As for Ford passenger cars the last build date I have in my data plate collection is 27W, September 27, 1957 at San Jose, CA...... Information by Lou Champeau at vehicleone@hotmail.com __________________________________________________________________________________________
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