I have two Saturn stories:

- Summer of 1989, the year I graduated high school, one of my best friends from school's dad was doing contract work at the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, TN. I got to visit the plant as they were wrapping up construction and working out production details. I remember 4 large buildings laid out in a line. The idea was to bring basic materials (rolls of sheet steel and giant blocks of aluminum and more) into one end of the complex and send cars out the other end. There were HUGE sheet metal presses in place. They were testing engine and transmission castings (lost foam in sand process). The conveyor system was being tested using Chevy Corsica chassis/bodies.

- A friend of ours from college bought a S-Series sedan in spring of 1996. It had a manual transmission, the least expensive model. She didn't know how to drive stick, so I drove it home for her and taught her to drive it over the next few days. It was a brand new car, charcoal paint and grey cloth interior, and I remember liking it but not wanting one.