<VV> Salesman/Tonawanda

[Gary Swiatowy]

As a foot note to your story.....
Years ago, GM fans started an all Chevrolet car show on the grounds of the
Tonawanda engine plant.
Inside, employees had assembled a collection of display motors covering the
history of the facility.
It was great!
(No Corvair motor, but I was assured one was in the works).
Following year, this display was unavailable for viewing.
Year after that, I found the display was scattered to the four winds. No
room, most on display elsewhere.
No sense of history.
Then it went from being the Chevrolet Tonawanda Plant, to the GM Powertrain
facility.
Again, no sense of history.
More, what can we sell you today.
I have not been to that show since.
There was a tour there during the 2006 Convention, but there are also other
special occasion tours, but the history of the facility is not important to
them.

Note: The GM Historical Collection, is not on public display.
And again, no sense of history, for the enthusiast.

Gary Swiatowy
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From: J1M1SH at aol.com
Subject: Re: <VV> - Kaczmarek

As a footnote to your Tonawanda story.... Drove  through there last summer, 
saw the Tonawanda Powertrain Plant and got off the  highway and found my way

to the gate. I asked the guard if they had tours of the  plant, or a 
souviener shop. He said no, and kinda implied I should get lost. I  looked
at him 
and said the history that has come out of this plant is legendary.  I've 
owned a bunch of Built in Tonawanda Big Blocks, and I'd be proud to wear a  
Tonawanda Powertrain tee shirt, That's whats wrong with todays chevrolet.
Jim


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