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Shifts:
Three production shifts
Past
- Plant production began January 6, 1954.
- First car built was a 4-door black Pontiac Chieftain.
- Starting hourly wage rate for a line operator in 1954 was $1.78.
- Plant production began with full size cars, followed by intermediate cars, and then returning to full size cars.
- Plant converted to truck production in 1997.
- 2012 new stamping facility added.
- 2013 third shift addition completion for all facilities.
Present
- Approximately 1,200 vehicles are produced daily
- GM pays $1 Million in wages every day at the Arlington Assembly plant– this is new money coming back into the community
Production history of vehicles includes:
- Buick
- Roadmaster (1954-1958, 1992-1996),
- Special (1954-1958)
- Super (1954-1958)
- Century (1955-1958)
- Electra (1959-1963)
- La Sabre (1959-1963)
- Invicta (1959-1963)
- Regal (1982-1983)
- Oldsmobile
- Eighty-Eight (1954-1965, 1988-1990)
- Ninety-Eight (1954-1965)
- Starfire (1962-1965)
- Cutlass (1971-1981)
- Cutlass Supreme (1978-1981)
- Supreme (1984-1987)
- Pontiac
- Starchief (1954-1959)
- Chieftain (1954-1959)
- Catalina (1960-1970)
- Bonneville (1960-1970)
- Ventura (1960-1967)
- Tempest (1968-1970)
- GTO (1968-1970)
- Lemans (1968-1970)
- GMC
- Sprint (1975-1977)
- Sierra (1997-1999)
- Yukon (1998-Present)
- Yukon XL (1999-Present)
- Cadillac
- Brougham (1988-1993)
- Fleetwood (1994-1996)
- Escalade (1998-Present)
- Escalade ESV (2006- Present)
- Chevrolet
- Biscayne (1963-1970)
- Impala (1963-1970)
- Bel-Air (1963-1970)
- Caprice (1966-1967)
- Chevelle (1968-1977)
- Monte Carlo (1972-1987)
- El Camino (1973-1977, 1979-1984)
- Malibu (1978-1983)
- Caballero (1979-1984)
- Caprice (1988-1996)
- Regular Cab (1997-1999)
- Extended Cab (1997-1998)
- Tahoe (1998- Present)
- Suburban (1999-Present)
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