If you have enough money, can you have a new “classic” car built? Like can I pay to have ford build me a 1970 Mustang?
Lets say I dont want to buy an old car and restore it, I want a 1970 but straight off the factory line. Can you have a car built with the old style frame, engine, trans, etc?
here in the uk you can buy a brand new jaguar .which is an exact replica of a 1960 mk2 the body ..engine and gearbox look identical ..but the exhaust ..brakes etc are upgraded to modern spec ...to look at its exactly the same ..but thats not made by the manufacturer ...its a specialist company ...and im sure if you wanted a replica mustang there are companies out there who would it
They do not have the body press and other stuff to build a 1970 Mustang at the assembly plant. Those are done away with every model change. You can get all aftermarket, or most OEM parts, but the Ford assembly plant will not put it together for you. If you want to pay a mechanic $100/Hr to build you a car, it will cost you a hell of a lot more than a Mustang cost back in 1970.
No, you cannot pay Ford or any other manufacturer to build a classic car for you because they do not have the facility, tooling or parts anymore. It also wouldn't meet Federal safety requirements for manufacturer-produced automobiles, and they wouldn't waste their time or resources., There are small independent shops that can build one-off replica cars if you could afford it but any logical and intelligent would just get an original one restored frame-up to factory specs.
No way. The cars bodies are pressed from moulds, and a lot of the moulds are exported to other countries after the western car makers have finished the models. And that was about 20 years ago. I imagine the importers of the car moulds would have designed their own cars by now (I'm talking about places like India etc). The only way you could do it is by creating your own car factory.
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No. When new cars are built, they have to adhere to current regulations regardless of how they look.
here in the uk you can buy a brand new jaguar .which is an exact replica of a 1960 mk2 the body ..engine and gearbox look identical ..but the exhaust ..brakes etc are upgraded to modern spec ...to look at its exactly the same ..but thats not made by the manufacturer ...its a specialist company ...and im sure if you wanted a replica mustang there are companies out there who would it
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They do not have the body press and other stuff to build a 1970 Mustang at the assembly plant. Those are done away with every model change. You can get all aftermarket, or most OEM parts, but the Ford assembly plant will not put it together for you. If you want to pay a mechanic $100/Hr to build you a car, it will cost you a hell of a lot more than a Mustang cost back in 1970.
No you have to find an individual person who can do it but it would cost more than a used one.
No, you cannot pay Ford or any other manufacturer to build a classic car for you because they do not have the facility, tooling or parts anymore. It also wouldn't meet Federal safety requirements for manufacturer-produced automobiles, and they wouldn't waste their time or resources., There are small independent shops that can build one-off replica cars if you could afford it but any logical and intelligent would just get an original one restored frame-up to factory specs.
No way. The cars bodies are pressed from moulds, and a lot of the moulds are exported to other countries after the western car makers have finished the models. And that was about 20 years ago. I imagine the importers of the car moulds would have designed their own cars by now (I'm talking about places like India etc). The only way you could do it is by creating your own car factory.