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Originally Posted by Buzz
Secondly, if you can convince FFR to offer your aluminum body (or parts like hood, doors, trunk, etc.) as an attractively priced option from the factory, their sales and marketing machinery might just produce the volume required for it to be viable. The big important kicker would be that it would have to be that much lower in price to stop a potential buyer from thinking "Why not just step up and buy a Kirkham?"
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This could make some sense. If FFR was interested they would supply him the necessary pattern cars (otherwise he'd have to buy at least two as part of his "factory" just to fit the parts to), and basically act as a subcontractor to FFR. FFR then absorbs all of the warranty costs (which anyone with a component supply knows has to be accounted for as a liability).
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Other manufacturers like ERA, Unique, Hurricane and Superformance might also like to be able to offer alloy body parts as reasonably priced options or retrofit upgrades to existing customer cars.
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Just to avoid confusing the original poster: None of the cars listed here are interchangeable. If you happen to garner a contract with FFR and say SPF, each will require unique tooling, and you'll have to have a fitmobile from each one of them.
The volumes available here don't have a ROI that works, or I think it would have already been done. Surely, if FFR and SPF could offer an alloy body at a price point between their glass cars and Kirkham don't you think they would?
I think you'll be better in the one off custom car business. The work I saw on the website does look nice. And you'll get paid a lot better.