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                                                                   EXHIBIT 3.1


             MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND INDUSTRY SERVICES
              CORPORATION, SECURITIES AND LAND DEVELOPMENT BUREAU

                           ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                    For use by Domestic Profit Corporations


                                   ARTICLE I

     The name of the corporation is Oxford Automotive, Inc.

                                   ARTICLE II

     The purpose or purposes for which the Corporation is organized is to
engage in any activity within the purposes for which corporations may be
organized under the Michigan Business Corporation Act ("the MBCA").

                                  ARTICLE III

     The total authorized shares:  400,000 shares of common stock.

                                   ARTICLE IV

     The name of the registered agent is:  Robert H. Orley.


The address of the registered office is:  2000 North Woodward Avenue, Suite 130
                                          Bloomfield Hills, Michigan  48304


                                   ARTICLE V

     The name and address of the incorporator is Gerald T. Lievois, Dykema
Gossett PLLC, 400 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan  48243-1668.

                                   ARTICLE VI

     When a compromise or arrangement or any plan of reorganization of this
corporation is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class
of them and/or between this corporation and its shareholders or any class of
them, any court of equity jurisdiction within the state of Michigan may, on the
application of this corporation or of any creditor or any shareholder thereof,
or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this
corporation, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of
the shareholders or class of shareholders, as the case may be, to be affected
by the proposed compromise or arrangement or reorganization, to be summoned in
such manner as said court directs.  If a majority in number, representing 3/4
in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the shareholders or
class of shareholders, as the case may be, to be affected by the proposed
compromise or arrangement or reorganization, agrees to any


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compromise or arrangement or to any reorganization of this corporation as a
consequence of such compromise or arrangement, said compromise or arrangement
and said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said
application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of
creditors, and/or on all the shareholders or class of shareholders, as the case
may be, and also on this corporation.

                                  ARTICLE VII

     Any action required or permitted by the Act to be taken at any annual or
special meeting of shareholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior
notice and without a vote, if consents in writing, setting forth the action so
taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the
minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take the action
at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and
voted.  The written consents shall bear the date of signature of each
shareholder who signs the consent.  No written consents shall be effective to
take the corporate action referred to unless, within 60 days after the record
date for determining shareholders entitled to express consent to or to dissent
from a proposal without a meeting, written consents signed by a sufficient
number of shareholders to take the action are delivered to the corporation.
Delivery shall be to the corporation's registered office, its principal place
of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the
minutes of the proceedings of its shareholders.  Delivery made to a
corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified mail, return
receipt requested.

     Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by
less than unanimous written consent shall be given to shareholders who have not
consented in writing.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

     No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the
corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director, provided that the foregoing shall not eliminate or limit
the liability of a director for any of the following: (1) breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders; (2) acts or
omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or knowing
violation of law; (3) a violation of Section 551(1) of the Michigan Business
Corporation Act (the "MBCA"); or (4) a transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit.  If the MBCA is amended to authorize the
further elimination of limitation of the liability of directors, then the
liability of a director of the corporation, in addition to the limitation on
personal liability contained in these articles of incorporation, shall be
limited to the fullest extent permitted by the MBCA as so amended.  No
amendment or repeal of this Article shall apply to or have any effect on the
liability or alleged liability of any director of the corporation for or with
respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such
amendment or repeal.






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