Doug Kemp

I BEGAN WORKING AT GENERAL Motors’ Rochester Products Division located in Rochester, New York, as a “probationary” United Automobile Workers’ member on February 2, 1967, when I was 18. I was assigned to the second-shift Quadrajet Set and Pack line. The setup man quickly taught me the basic carburetor setting process. He then assigned me to another worker to further learn how to set the choke, fast idle, vacuum break, and wide open.

Quadrajet carburetors were heavy,