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Old 03-12-2012, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by w123fanman View Post
Yea that's what I figured as to why few repair shops fabricate their own parts. I wonder how much they would charge to fabricate an entire car minus the parts that are readily available.
Who knows if they would agree to do it, it might violate laws because they'd be making a "new" produced example of an old car. Not sure how that works.

Also, the giant equipment (presses, stamps, etc) needed to make the large structure of the car are no longer in service, not sure how they would pull that off the same by hand.


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