I don't want to spend $25,000.
For it to look like shift in a few months!!!
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I don't want to spend $25,000.
For it to look like shift in a few months!!!
For it to look like shift in a few months!!!
speedster body getting wavy after only a few months
All makers included !
Can any body post pictures and include the time frame!!
Just how bad is bad!!! I am picky
All makers included !
Can any body post pictures and include the time frame!!
Just how bad is bad!!! I am picky
Being around speedsters for years, while some do not look that perfect yet some others do hold there own in appearance, it's the luck of the draw and good prep.
To hammer on one or manufactures, is a bit edgy at best.
To hammer on one or manufactures, is a bit edgy at best.
I have heard that IMs https://www.speedsterowners.com/makers/intermeccanica.asp
Heat cure their bodys in an oven to "age" it so they dont sag or ripple as much over time. I have not read it myself or heard from IM but that is what I hear.
Heat cure their bodys in an oven to "age" it so they dont sag or ripple as much over time. I have not read it myself or heard from IM but that is what I hear.
Now thats a new one....I better put my boots on quick...
Tis a fact Vince, better leave your boots on your feet.
Gene, don't let your imagination run too wild regarding catastrophic self-destructing speedster bodies folding up on themselves after 6 months. While mine is only a year old, and as straight as it was the day I got it, I have been around many, many other Speedster kits from all manufacturers that range up to 20+ years old and have seen nothing that would keep me from buying all over again. The wavyist bodies I have seen have been on some real ones. Follow your desires and enjoy a great driving/lifestyle experience. Don't fall victim to the Chicken Little Syndrome.
I don't hear this problem with corvette owners?
$25K is entry level pricing, mass-produced, damn-the-torpedos, full speed ahead, get dem new replicars out the door. You can't demand better at that price point.
It is a crapshoot. Buy a used one that is a year or two old....save a bunch of cash and find out if it is one that has developed the "waves". Or spend a bunch more money to get "piece of mind", but I don't think any of them are "guaranteed" against anything.......they are toys. Just very expensive toys.
If there was ever a Speedster body that should show some wear and tear, I should think it would be my car.
I have abused the shell as badly as you could imagine; it's been drop-tested, chipped, sawed, hit, repaired, filled and heated with a torch. I have cut the front loose from the back, and it's only attached at the ends by a couple bolts.
After all that, the only non-original wavy lines in it are from one door handle to the other where I used a rope to keep the car cover from sagging last winter under the weight of a couple feet of snow. The dimples are over the tops of the doors, and they've been getting better, not worse.
You'll hear all kinds of stories, but the most practical I've heard yet are the manufacturing technique, thickness of the Gelcoat and finish-sanding before any real paint job seem to make the differences in appearance.
There are several searchable threads on the related 'sagging tail' phenomenon, however. I wouldn't call that 'wavy' body lines, though. Apples and oranges, I think.
Hope that helps.
I have abused the shell as badly as you could imagine; it's been drop-tested, chipped, sawed, hit, repaired, filled and heated with a torch. I have cut the front loose from the back, and it's only attached at the ends by a couple bolts.
After all that, the only non-original wavy lines in it are from one door handle to the other where I used a rope to keep the car cover from sagging last winter under the weight of a couple feet of snow. The dimples are over the tops of the doors, and they've been getting better, not worse.
You'll hear all kinds of stories, but the most practical I've heard yet are the manufacturing technique, thickness of the Gelcoat and finish-sanding before any real paint job seem to make the differences in appearance.
There are several searchable threads on the related 'sagging tail' phenomenon, however. I wouldn't call that 'wavy' body lines, though. Apples and oranges, I think.
Hope that helps.