I didn't feel the vid was CB. Here's my thoughts on it:
When I did a plant tour at Bowling Green to see the C6 Vettes being built the tour group was told there would be no pictures or videos of the manufacturing processes we would see. There was also the privacy issue with the workers. I know in certain instances they would allow pics/videos for journalistic articles and what not.
I have a feeling that Ford did not want any of the manufacturing processes shown on YT and when they got word of this video somehow they had a way to making SM take it down (hold his car ransom maybe?????)
Now the funny thing is (for those that didn't see this video) when it started SM says that he got contacted by a worker at the plant (that watches his channel) saying his car will be built and whether he wanted to come to the plant to see it go down the line, of course he said yes (who wouldn't if given the opportunity).
So he shows up at Flat Rock assembly, met at reception by that worker (now we don't know who the person is AFA how high his chain of command is at the plant, whether he's some kind of manager or just a factory worker), he claims that they got clearance from higher ups that SM was able to be there to see his car built (there was no mention of whether he could video or not).
So SM gets all decked out in the safety stuff and off he goes escorted by said worker to the floor to see a LG GT500 going down the line, SM obviously filming the whole time.
Yes, he tightens a bolt on a door hinge, tightens wheel nuts on 1 corner of "his" car and gets to sit in it and start it for the first time. Then he rides shotgun to the dyno area and while the car is on the rollers and the driver is doing all sorts of system checks on the car he was filming all of that. The computers and diagnostic stuff that is plugged into each new Mustang system checks everything. The driver worker mentions it tests all the exhaust modes, calibrates throttle sensitivity, speaker and antenna reception and sat signals. It's like Skynet...……………….."plugged into everything, trusted to run it all"...………….
Some of that stuff is probably proprietary stuff on the manufacturing of Mustang and Ford probably didn't want it out there for the world to see.
So out of all that what am I saying...………………….he was invited as an owner to see his car built, that experience was just his to enjoy and probably was not to be filmed and shared. He may have been told about that and he dismissed it and filmed anyways OR that worker didn't have the authority to invite him there to see the car, management got wind of an outsider there who filmed the build process and got tied up in their panties and caused the vid to be taken down.
I'm done with my story.
Tony
Or should I say Advised him to take down the video
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