That plant is gone, and new buildings are already being built for the airport.
I’ve had experience working with the Penske team on a joint Penske-Yamaha deal, although in a limited way, and I can tell you, they define “top notch”.
They are so well organized and “pre-thought”, each and every member has a sole task to accomplish. They come in, accomplish their task, and you don’t even see them leave, they’re like Ninja’s in business attire!
Team Penske could teach 6 Sigma a few things.
If Penske wanted to go in there, it would truly a victory for free market enterprise, and not unions, Government, or GM.
You underestimate the California bureaucracy and legislature. He won’t win.
More likely he won’t try. There are plenty of plants elsewhere he can buy or rent.
I have a picture somewhere that I had published in 1969, I think, taken at Sonoma in California on the Trans-Am circuit.
It was interesting, Mark Donohue, the late driver is there in the shot along with a couple of mechanics and Penske is examining a sparkplug just pulled after a run.
He’s peering at it through a loupe with an obvious scrutiny that spoke volumes about his attention to detail that allowed his team to win in both Camaros and later, in AMC Javelins.