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Shortest upper radiator hose in history? 6", '55 Chevy 210 I-6 ~

... has the company built since Day 1?? Googled the question, saw one estimate of 500 million. Don't know if that source was GM or if GM even has an accurate count. Overseas markets and the confusion of partial brand ownership, etc in the latter half of the Company's history may make a comprehensive tally a challenge. All the years from the Sloan book referenced below are CALENDAR year sales. These numbers are less common than model year, and it makes the transition to those more readily-obtainable numbers inaccurate for that switch-over. 1909 : 32,311 (fiscal year ending 09.30.09 plus 3 months ending 12.31.09) ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan [From 1909 thru 1923, totals includes CarterCar, Elmore, Marquette, Randolph, Samson, Scripps-Booth, Welch and 'misc' vehicles, all worldwide markets included when applicable] 1910 : 39,300 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1911 : 35,752 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1912 : 49,696 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1913 : 57,270 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1914 : 61,584 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1915 : 102,388 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1916 : 146,185 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1917 : 203,119 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1918 : 205,326 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Canadian plant now online: 1,312 units this first year] 1919 : 391,738 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [1 millionth vehicle produced] 1920 : 393,075 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan TOTAL to this point : 1,717,744 1921 : 214,799 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1922 : 456,763 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [2 millionth vehicle produced] 1923 : 798,555 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [3 millionth vehicle produced] 1924 : 587,341 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1925 : 835,902 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [4 millionth vehicle produced] 1926 : 1,236,363 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan [Vauxhall now included] • [5 millionth vehicle produced] 1927 : 1,564,354 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1928 : 1,813,393 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1929 : 1,900,654 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [10 millionth vehicle produced] 1930 : 1,193,535 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Opel now included] TOTAL to this point : 12,319,403 1931 : 1,074,709 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1932 : 562,970 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1933 : 869,035 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1934 : 1,240,447 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [15 millionth vehicle produced] 1935 : 1,715,688 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1936 : 2,037,690 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1937 : 2,115,949 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [20 millionth vehicle produced] 1938 : 1,308,643 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1939 : 1,726,855 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1940 : 2,080,566 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Opel factory under Nazi control- not included. 25 millionth vehicle produced] TOTAL to this point : 27,051,955 1941 : 2,300,028 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1942 : 348,806 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1943 : 194,144 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [including 60K Chevy trucks, 30K GMC trucks] 1944 : 317,032 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [including 71K Chevy trucks, 152K GMC trucks] • [30 millionth] 1945 : 308,044 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1946 : 1,229,032 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1947 : 1,992,371 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1948 : 2,220,993 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Holden now included] 1949 : 2,896,348 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Opel back in the count] 1950 : 3,992,298 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [40 millionth] TOTAL to this point : 42,851,051 1951 : 3,197,134 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1952 : 2,629,200 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1953 : 3,760,479 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [50 millionth] 1954 : 3,799,628 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1955 : 5,030,994 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1956 : 4,090,863 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1957 : 3,885,366 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1958 : 3,310,493 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1959 : 3,850,914 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan • [Brazil plant online] • [75 millionth] 1960 : 4,660,996 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan TOTAL to this point : 81,067,118 1961 : 4,036,629 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan 1962 : 5,238,601 ~ My Years with General Motors, Alfred P Sloan TOTAL to this point : 90,342,348 This ends the Sloan book as a reference, as it was published in 1963. Quite probably the best reference on these early numbers; Sloan was fastidious in writing & reviewing the book, and no doubt he could merely ask and get the definitive info on this from company archives- he was still honorary chairman of the board in 1963. TO DATE here we have 54 years of production and 90 million vehicles. Counting to the end of 2017, we have another 55 years to go... is it possible to have built 410 million in the 2nd half of the company's history? • • • • • • • • • Switching to model year production, there's going to be a slight overlap with the end of 1962. I could estimate that on a monthly basis, but for now I'm going to gloss over it as numerically insignificant. 1963 : U.S. ONLY, 5 car Divisions : 3,835,039 ~ Encyclopedia of American Cars 1930-1980, Richard Langworth 1963 : U.S. ONLY, GMC - calendar year : 101,234 ~ Standard Catalog of American Light Duty Trucks, John Gunnell 1963 : U.S. ONLY, Chevrolet Truck - calendar year : 483,119 ~ Standard Catalog of American Light Duty Trucks, John Gunnell 1963 : CANADA, 5 car divisions (minus Cadillac, plus Acadian) - calendar year : 264,340 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1963 : Holden : 256,959~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_holden 1963 : Opel : 1963 : Vauxhall : 1964 : U.S. ONLY, 5 car divisions + Chevrolet Truck : 4,741,198 ~ Encyclopedia of American Cars 1930-1980, Richard Langworth 1964 : U.S. ONLY, GMC - calendar year : 110,521 ~ Standard Catalog of American Light Duty Trucks, John Gunnell 1964 : CANADA, 5 divisions (minus Cadillac, plus Acadian) - calendar year : 246,466 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1964 : Holden : ? ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_holden 1964 : Opel : 1964 : Vauxhall : 1965 : U.S. ONLY, 5 divisions + Chevrolet Truck : 5,360,883 ~ Encyclopedia of American Cars 1930-1980, Richard Langworth 1965 : U.S. ONLY, GMC - calendar year : 136,705 ~ Standard Catalog of American Light Duty Trucks, John Gunnell 1965 : CANADA, 5 divisions - calendar year : 351,303 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1965 : Holden : 178,927 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_holden 1965 : Opel : 1965 : Vauxhall : 1966 : CANADA, 5 divisions - calendar year : 285,984 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1966 : Holden : 1966 : Opel : 1966 : Vauxhall : 1967 : CANADA, 5 divisions - calendar year : 264,340 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1967: Holden : 1967 : Opel : 1967 : Vauxhall : 1968 : CANADA, 5 divisions - calendar year : 312,275 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1968 : Holden : 1968 : Opel : 1968 : Vauxhall : 1969 : CANADA, 5 divisions - calendar year : 391,561 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1969 : Holden : 1969 : Opel : 1969 : Vauxhall : 1970 : CANADA, 3 divisions - calendar year : 222,376 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1970 : Holden : 1970 : Opel : 1970: Vauxhall : 1971 : CANADA, 3 divisions - calendar year : 406,186 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1971 : Holden : 1971 : Opel : 1971: Vauxhall : 1972 : CANADA, 2 divisions - calendar year : 354,167 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1972 : Holden : 1972 : Opel : 1972: Vauxhall : 1973 : CANADA, 2 divisions - calendar year : 443,806 ~ www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/production_gm_canada 1973 : Holden : 1973 : Opel : 1973: Vauxhall : 19xx Opel Manta [entire global production] : 498,553 ~ www.opelclub.com MORE TO COME...

1959 Buick Skylark III, XP-75 program, 2-pass coupe. 2 running/driving cars built, 1 known to be destroyed, the other disappeared in the late '60s.

... and a 455 @ Buick. All completely proprietary, of course. 260 is at least as early as '75, 403 came online in '77 (correct: to supplement the loss of the 455), and the 307 came out for '80. Interesting that Olds chose to retain the con rods/crank and bore the block/change the piston. 260 to 403 only meant about 3/4-in larger diameter pistons, but I could see that impacting cooling capacity, yes. Agreed.

Can't hear you still stuck in that giant pothole on 1-94.... Yep, it's like off roading every day...

Seems probable tune packages (aftermarket) could get the 700 TRQ up closer to the light duty DuraMax's 910 TRQ.

My biggest one was Astons. When I was a budding car enthusiast in high school and thought I knew way more than I actually did, I thought they were for posers. I couldn't wrap my head around people spending Ferrari money on cars that performed no better than Porsches. And were probably rather unreliable. Now that I've driven many of them, I totally get the appeal. They have incredible craftsmanship and just positively ooze charm and personality. They drive damn well, too. For the most part. Then there's the looks, of course. Now I'm a fan, and a V12 Vantage manual is one of my ultimate dream cars.

Why oh Why do morons who are so afraid to drive get licenses. Driving 35 on a freeway stated as 65 is dangerous to everyone. Turning your hazard lights on does not help and you being bunched up against the steering wheel is not helping either. Get off the Fricking Highway.