[EDNY]

Congressional Legislation Would Allow Hobbyists to Buy Turn-Key Replica Cars

Link:

http://www.semasan.com/page.asp?content=aa_2015fed7a&g=SEMAGA&utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50057958&utm_campaign=DrivingForce

[chopper526]

Ed, maybe I don't understand the bill, or I am reading it wrong...or I'm just plain stupid, but isn't it already legal to produce kit cars?

[TFoch]

Yes but this would allow them to be sold fully assembled and running.  Not really a kit then is it

[sixball]

So at this point if you build one you can not sell it? Or is it about making a business out of putting them together? What about all those fiberglass Cobras? More than likely by making whatever this law says legal it will make something we do now illegal.

[madmike3434]

never mind the fiberglass cobras , there is a huge shi#! load of 32 and 33-34 fords out there in glass.

what would happen to them??

mike     

[themoose]

As I read it , it would allow companies to produce "Turn Key Replicas" which are not "Kit Cars" I kit car is something you purchase as individual parts and then you have to assemble it or have someone assemble it whereas a Turn Key is ready to drive off the show room.  This would all a small business to build and market cars that resemble something like a Model A and sell it as a complete car ready to drive just like the big boys like GM and Ford do. I don't see how that would have any bearing on the existing kit car market or the kit cars that are already on the road. It would allow someone who doesn't have the time or knowledge and equipment to build their own car to get involved in the hobby and also allow small businesses to be established to build them. Sounds good on the surface but that depends on how the politicians twist things around to benefit the government more than the consumer.     

[chopper526]

I don't get it. I thought it WAS legal to sell them already. What about the company that made Model A's and the '57 T'Birds out of fiberglass using a Ford drivetrain (the company name escapes me). I also believe there is a company making late '50's fiberglass Corvettes. There are probably more, I am sure, I am just not in the loop.

[vette59jdwl]

I thought that there were all kinds of turn key kit cars on the market.I know there is one in Montreal makes some sort of english gety up go car turn key with 302 fuel injected ford or chevy in it.There is also a fiberglass 55 56 57 and also a steel 55 56 57 chevy turn key car on the street in different places  I am not clear where we are going with this OH and also in Mississippi there is a down sized Kenworth turn key or kit have it whatever way you want  vette59jdwl

[vette59jdwl]

Go to www.kitcarlist.com  vette59jdwl  some real nice shi#!  I do like the 53/54/54 corvette  nomad  ok so i am prone to vettes  just the old ones  maybe because i am just old as well lol lol  vette59jdwl

[themoose]

I believe the so called turn key replica cars that are now on the market are produced by companies who manufacture the components  to build the car and who will put one together for you on a made to order basis. It's like having Chip Foose build you a car using his components. It's basically no different than having the local rod shop build you a car. There is no inventory or dealer structure in place . There may have been companies in the past who were able to offer something close to "Turn Key" cars but I don't think that it would still be possible under the latest government rules regarding Automobile manufacturers. I think what the legislation is focused on is allowing a company to build cars and to develop an inventory that could be offered for sale to anyone who walks through the door wanting to buy one without commissioning a specific  build . As it is now if you manufacture vehicles for general consumption you have to meet all of the federal guidelines that are currently in effect such as safety, emissions and fleet mileage requirements. As the proposed legislation states it is an attempt to remove the one size fits all mentality that is now in place.Below is a statement from one of the popular so called Turn Key Kit cars. As stated above they do not manufacture cars but can supply a shop everything you need to build the car...I guess you could get bogged down in semantics

   For as many people who choose to build their own car, there are people interested in purchasing a completed car. At Factory Five we do not build completed cars. Over the years we have worked with a good number of excellent hot rod and custom car builders. These shops specialize in starting with the Factory Five kit and performing assembly and custom car building services to a customer specification.

[chopper526]

Go to www.kitcarlist.com 

Vette, that is a great site. I should never have showed my 14 year old, he wants me to build a Batmobile

[vette59jdwl]

chopper526  Your young one  like to see how its done

http://www.roybriziostreetrods.com/progress_past.htm

vette 59 jdwl

Click on whichever car you want from Rods in Progress or rods in progress ARCHIVES

[vette59jdwl]

Chopper526 Show the young lad this site and he just might get interested lol lol  vette59jdwl

http://www.motorwayamerica.com/content/abandoned-car