Ford Motor Company's Wixom Assembly plant was located near Novi, Michigan, about 25 miles west of Detroit. Opening in 1957, it was eventually expanded to cover 4.7 million square feet, and total workers employed there peaked out at over 5,400 by the late 80's.
Wixom began by building (starting with the '58 models) Lincoln Continental and Ford Thunderbird, then the various versions of the Lincoln Mark series which evolved later, as well as the Town Car, the LS, and even the exotic Ford GT.
The total number of cars built there reached 6,648,806 when the last one (a Town Car) rolled out on May 31st, 2007. Wixom was then idled as part of a corporate down-sizing strategy which also included 15 other plant closures.
The place still stands, for now, like some kind of huge, silent monument to a great era in automotive history.
I thought it would be worthwhile to photograph the plant as it appears now, with one of the excellent cars they built in the foreground, so I stopped by
there recently with my white pearlescent '98 CE. To view my photos, click on the links below.
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/rearofmyCEatWixom.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/frontofmyCEatWixom.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/DesolateFordWixomPlant.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/viewfromInterstate96.jpg
Wixom began by building (starting with the '58 models) Lincoln Continental and Ford Thunderbird, then the various versions of the Lincoln Mark series which evolved later, as well as the Town Car, the LS, and even the exotic Ford GT.
The total number of cars built there reached 6,648,806 when the last one (a Town Car) rolled out on May 31st, 2007. Wixom was then idled as part of a corporate down-sizing strategy which also included 15 other plant closures.
The place still stands, for now, like some kind of huge, silent monument to a great era in automotive history.
I thought it would be worthwhile to photograph the plant as it appears now, with one of the excellent cars they built in the foreground, so I stopped by
there recently with my white pearlescent '98 CE. To view my photos, click on the links below.
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/rearofmyCEatWixom.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/frontofmyCEatWixom.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/DesolateFordWixomPlant.jpg
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv112/marko55_bucket/viewfromInterstate96.jpg
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