Hemmings Daily: How the workers of Detroit's auto plants faced the Eighties

There's an early 1980s' CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earlier Bill Moyers, of public television station WNET,traveled to Detroit to interview the people on the ground who were facing catastrophic changes, and to try to untangle the complicated and sometimes nuanced issues of automation, union support, layoffs, downsizing, and more, just as the U.S. government was debating whet [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Sunday, August 19, 2018 ["There's not very much to look forward to here anymore:" Detroit faces the Eighties]( ['There's not very much to look forward to here anymore:' Detroit faces the Eighties]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - There's an early 1980s' CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earlier Bill Moyers, of public television station WNET,traveled to Detroit to interview the people on the ground who were facing catastrophic changes, and to try to untangle the complicated and sometimes nuanced issues of automation, union support, layoffs, downsizing, and more, just as the U.S. government was debating whet... [Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Salon]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Salon]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Salon Two Door Coupe, This is one of the nicest Olds. you could find. I am the 2 nd owner excluding a dealer. As you will see in the pictures it has been taken care with white gloves. This Cutlass has no modifications , only repairs to original condition.The headliner and sun visors have been recovered with matching fabric. The tires are Uniroyal as were the original tires. All service records will come with the car. The a/c is as the factory sent it...[Read More]( [Four-Links - ball-stud Hemi, Egypt's desert racers, lead bromide, Lucky 13]( [Four-Links - ball-stud Hemi, Egypt's desert racers, lead bromide, Lucky 13]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac's Motor City Garage detailed this week. * Here in the United States, off-road racing largely faces threats from development; in Egypt, it's their army's lethal enforcement of no-go zones in the desert. As Roads and Kingdoms wrote this week, however, a growing bunch of off-road racers are heading out into the desert regardless. ...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1930 American Austin]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1930 American Austin]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Unrestored 1930 American Austin coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Rare 1930 American Austin Bantam 5 window coupe. No mileage since total restoration. Body and fenders in good condition. The car is not currently registered but has a clear title (Colorado 2016). This car was passed to me by my father, who purchased it from the estate of a friend who completed the restoration shortly before he died. I am not an antique car expert and my knowledge of this vehicle is very limited but ...[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S MOST READ [Stolen car alert: Chop-top gullwing taken from Nurburgring's front doorstep]( [Stolen car alert: Chop-top gullwing taken from Nurburgring's front doorstep]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - The world over, there's probably only one Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing sporting a three-inch chopped roofline, bubbles in the top to clear the driver's and passenger's heads, and ostrich-leather interior. This week, that outlaw gullwing is in the wind after thieves stole it from right out front of the Nurburgring race track in Germany. According to Paris-based photographer Remi Dargegen, who photographed the car for owner Thomas Rosier last year, the 1955 gullwing - serial number 5500434 - was stolen the night o...[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION [GM to use Tri-Power again... sort of]( [GM to use Tri-Power again... sort of]( Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - The mere mention of iconic engine names of the muscle-car era elicits a positive reaction from anyone who recalls and reveres them. Tri-Power, Ram Air, H.O., Cobra Jet, Boss, Hemi, Six-Pack, LS6, LT-1, Stage 1, W-30, and so on, all immediately conjure up warm and fuzzy images of the days when cubes were king and enough money to buy a few gallons of Hi-Test could be collected by retrieving the loose change that had fallen between the seats. Over the decades since then, some of these names have been applied to more...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [HemmingsPRO]( Seller Listings [1951 Chevrolet 3100]( [1951 Chevrolet 3100 $49,983]( [1990 Nissan 300ZX]( [1990 Nissan 300ZX $9,995]( [1991 BMW 850i]( [1991 BMW 850i $43,750]( [1989 Pontiac]( [1989 Pontiac $10,950]( [1965 Chevrolet Corvette]( [1965 Chevrolet Corvette $169,900]( [2003 Porsche 911GT2]( [2003 Porsche 911GT2 $189,000]( [Learn More]( [This Day in Automotive History] THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY 8/19/1909: Betty Blythe, a newspaper reporter, becomes the first woman to lap the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. UPCOMING EVENTS [Hemmings Musclepalooza XXVIII]( September 2, 2018 - West Lebanon, NY [Brewster Elks Lodge 2101 31st Annual Car Show]( August 26, 2018 - brewster, NY [Claremont Senior Center. 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