The Willow Run plant is interesting all by itself. Built by Henry Ford, built liberator bombers for the war. They built an airport next to the plant for it. They build planes at some crazy speed.

Anyhow the "New GM" put the plant on the not needed list. Recently they had an auction or all the contents. One story going around was that GM after the M-16 contract had moth balled all the machine tools, fixtures, etc and that it was on standby. I knew someone that worked in the plant (through the internet) so I had asked about this. He worked there since the 1970s. He never saw any of the machinery involved in this. He also had no idea where it went or what became of it.

Theres more to the Willow Run plant, I just cant recall it now.


Also someone was selling bits of demilled (flame cut) Hydromatic M16 receivers at one point. I believe Hydromatic M16s are kinda scarce these days.