Came across this picture of what is said to be of the paint repair line 1983. Supposedly the last year for the B bodies in Oshawa. Since so little in the way of pictures exsist of inside that assembly plant, I thought it was worth posting, hopfully not a repost.
Perhaps your own Oshawa B body passed this exact spot!
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
I believe my Father in Law (Bill) was the General Manager at that plant (Paint Dept) and at St Therese for a bit....not sure of what years though. He passed away a few years back, he sure was a great guy.
Oshawa produced the last l.h.d B-Body cars with St. Catherines-built 350 V-8 motors when the unibody A-body cars replaced the chassised B-Bodies at Oshawa # 1 Plant. The Pontiac Parisienne which had been a thinly-disguised Chevrolet for 1983/4 was built in the Fairfax, U.S. Plant for 1985/6. For the record, the last Chevrolet Impala built in Canada was a four-door Sedan on 16 November 1985, a 1986 Model car. The so-called last-car was a Caprice, painted 2-tone blue which had been readied a few weeks before, and which was set-aside for the last drop and inserted after the last Impala, and driven off the line by Lionel Dignard on November 16 1985. That day also saw the last Chevrolet Caprice Wagons destined for Saudi Arabia. RIP Impala! The last A-body which replaced the Impala/Caprice was a 600, made obsolete by the W-Body Lumina.
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Automotive Historian, Author and Journalist Deputy Editor, VINTAGE ROADSCENE Southampton, England
