APUG Grampians adventure!

[Pinsplitter]

Ah you're probably right Wombat, so much for my fading memory, wonder whose car it was then.
What is "Buick City"?
The farmers at that time were quite well off, there were Jaguars, a Rolls Royce, imported Ford Customline, though our family car was an FJ Holden until Dad upgraded to a Peugeot 404. Took my first photos around then with a Brownie Box.

 

[Oxleyroad]

Buick City is, or rather was the Buick vehicle manufacturing complex. Not a factory, much bigger than that. There was tens of thousands of workers. The site covered an area of several hundred acres in the city of Flint, MI. Today Buick vehicles are made elsewhere at newer multi-model, multi-GM brand factories.

 

[wombat2go]

I suppose the Aussies will have to work out what to do about the gaps left by GM ( & others) pull-out like what happened in Flint.
The GM Flint South Plant is being expanded, but otherwise there are huge vacant lots around Flint including "Chevy-in-the Hole" in the centre.

Flint is becoming a college town with at least 4 universities, and recently I heard thare are 30,000 + students here and the number is growing.

At least 30% of the houses were derelict and they are progressively being demolished and the vacant land being turned to grass or left to re-generate.

The best time for Aussies to visit Michigan (especially if interested in auto history and film) would be when one of the car weekends is on in mid-late August. The Dream Cruise at Woodward in Detroit is the biggest.

In Flint we have the "Back to Bricks" in August, sponsored by Buick.
Here is a photo I took with a home brew 6x7 last year using the Takumar 6x7 90mm Leaf shutter , and Ektar 100 home processed in Digibase.
https://app.box.com/s/mbi6jx0kykx6ga1h6as30l1xibslqy2n