A friend of a friend told me that he visited Vintage Speedster’s new home in Arizona and was told that it is putting out two cars a day, which seems unlikely or even impossible. Any thoughts?
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Agreed.
IMPOSSIBLE!!!
You guys Have Legal Weed there.......
fake news
That would make them like Tesla!
Panhandle Bob posted:That would make them like Tesla!
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Vince cant even smoke a cigar that fast
How many cars is Starke putting out? I remember they thought that they would be delivering several cars by the end of the first quarter. Have not heard a word from them in some time.
40 hours per car (CMC 1988 adverts) - is only 2 guys to produce 2 cars. CMC were good to go gel coat so no painting req'd.
Panhandle Bob posted:How many cars is Starke putting out? I remember they thought that they would be delivering several cars by the end of the first quarter. Have not heard a word from them in some time.
2 a day!
Before lunch! Then they meet up after work (at say, 3:30 or so) behind the surf-shack for some shrimp tacos.
I think Starke has changed their marketing strategy to capitalize on the trendiness of limited sales volume. From a recent Facebook post:
"...And, the best part is knowing that with every turn you carve that you're in an exclusive club..."
Yeah, the exclusivity is about how much you are willing to spend. I wish them well and that they don't get so "exclusive" that they go under. Big tent for 356 replicas, oh excuse me, revolution as they say. They are testing the upper price limit.
Maybe he said "we are building speedsters today",
and it was misunderstood as two a day...
I would be VERY impressed if that was the case! Doesn't the fiberglass need to cure in the mold for a week before it is removed??
Yeah, and letting them bake in the sun for a while isn't a bad thing either.
Panhandle Bob posted:How many cars is Starke putting out? I remember they thought that they would be delivering several cars by the end of the first quarter. Have not heard a word from them in some time.
Bob. close your eyes and what do you see....
DannyP posted:Yeah, and letting them bake in the sun for a while isn't a bad thing either.
Ideally, I'd take the body, put in the subframe, and drag it into the desert for a year-- THEN do the body work and blocking.
My JPS was dead-flat when I got it. 6 months later it was a warped up mess.
Intermecanicca post cures their bodies. I don't know about other builders.
michel posted:Intermecanicca post cures their bodies. I don't know about other builders.
That was one of the reasons I went that direction in 2005.
Geesh, you IM guys can be downright snobs sometimes.
Kirk used to buy bodies in bulk and stack them up out back, awaiting orders.
I doubt that this was a formal 'curing' process, but at least some probably sat there for months before the painstaking two-week build process began. So, by design or not, there was maybe a fifty-fifty chance that any given body might be seasoned a bit.
And then, owing to the speed of the Mexican transport industry, each body could have been in transit another month or two before it reached the famous racks of Hawaiian Gardens.
At any rate, five years down the road, mine seems to have not much more waviness than when it was new.
Did i say 'waviness'? I meant patina.
where do coupe and speedster bodies come from? I know IM has their own molds.
michel posted:Intermecanicca post cures their bodies. I don't know about other builders.
Greg at Vintage Motorsports does too.
michel posted:...where do coupe and speedster bodies come from?....
Michel, there are some questions you really don't want to know the answers to.
Like, 'How did they make this delicious sausage?'
I know that Carey Hines at Special Edition/Beck now does all his bodies in-house in Indiana.
Greg at Vintage Motorcars does coupes, Speedsters, and Spyder bodies in-house at his new shop in Hawaiian Gardens.
I'm pretty sure Henry at Intermeccanica up in Vancouver is an in-house guy too.
JPS and "new" Vintage in AZ are unknown. Did I miss anything?
Yeah, Danny, you left out Steve Lawing at SAS. Of course, he doesn't really need fiberglass bodies, just pictures of them.
michel posted:where do coupe and speedster bodies come from? I know IM has their own molds.
Best you talk to you parents about this one...
I left him out on purpose. He occasionally puts out a car but 95% of his time is spent collecting cash.
DannyP posted:JPS and "new" Vintage in AZ are unknown. Did I miss anything?
JPS got his bodies from Kirk and more recently from Greg.
I know I've been very fortunate (mechanical and cosmetic) with the two VS cars I've owned.
My current daily driver VS is now 3 years old with 35,000Km (22,000 miles) and still holding up very well. YMMV. 
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DannyP posted:
....I'm pretty sure Henry at Intermeccanica up in Vancouver is an in-house guy too...
They're done locally- I've seen the molds at a fiberglass shop not too far from where we live.
MusbJim posted:I know I've been very fortunate (mechanical and cosmetic) with the two VS cars I've owned.
My current daily driver VS is now 3 years old with 35,000Km (22,000 miles) and still holding up very well. YMMV.
Now that I know you have owned a bunch of Range Rovers, I'll have to think a bit on your accessment of what is reliable 
Not Baaaaaaa
IaM-Ray posted:Now that I know you have owned a bunch of Range Rovers, I'll have to think a bit on your accessment of what is reliable
You made up a new word!!!
"Accessment":
Noun - the evaluation or estimation of the availability of someone or something.
Usage: "Our accessment of newly delivered 356 replicas is weak from SAS and JPS, but is strong from Special Edition and Vintage."
I wrote it in Old English
But I do get your point, to access one of these cars you could be For-Banging your head against the wall for a while as a victim of one of these disengenous folks.
Wow, this thread has gotten out of hand. I just asked where do the bodies come from. Not the secret of life! But then again, this is a fun bunch, as life should be!! But I do know where heavenly bodies come from. SoCal beaches!
For the secret of life you have to ask your mom and dad...
michel posted:Wow, this thread has gotten out of hand. I just asked where do the bodies come from. Not the secret of life! But then again, this is a fun bunch, as life should be!! But I do know where heavenly bodies come from. SoCal beaches!
Welcome to the madness, michel.
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MusbJim posted:I know I've been very fortunate (mechanical and cosmetic) with the two VS cars I've owned.
My current daily driver VS is now 3 years old with 35,000Km (22,000 miles) and still holding up very well. YMMV.
It's a beauty. . . and one of the two Vintage Speedsters I've most admired.
How do you get/keep that incredible shine?
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