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Originally Posted by Rickd
Ray, deposit #1 gets you in line for a chassis. ERA normallybuilds around 60 cars a year, probably 50% - 60% or more as turnkey minus or full turnkeys with motors installed. The balance I believe (my guesstimate) are mostly rollers with the body bonded, and many of those have suspension fully installed. My experience was a 12 month turnaround for a turnkey. Deposit #1 in early January, 4 weeks later a phone call "we have a chassis available - do you want it?", yes sir, deposit #2 to lock up the chassis (some people want to wait longer), once you have your chassis, it is a matter of the fabricating shop having room - then a body will be made, cured, and bonded to your chassis. That is generally a couple of months after you have your number. Once you have your body bonded, you can go to paint - mine was at Tony's for 12 weeks. Once back from Tony's, painted, it goes to the other building - final assembly where Peter's office is. That is 'normally', a 3 month process. The car will get a little time each week or so, until it moves up in line, and becomes "one of the 3 cars dat I gotta get outta here this month", and it will quickly morph into a completed car. It's a good thing to have wheels and motor on site so there are no delays. Keith Craft built my motor in 4 weeks from order, and ERA had it by the time my car came back from paint. They had my wheels before the car went to paint. Ordered Jan 7 2007, picked up Jan 7 2008 (approx), one year exactly. Rickd
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Rickd, all great information! So they actually started on your chassis one month after the initial deposit? So many have told me that it takes 3 months. I gather from what you said, at this point he assigned a number to you?
So basically you had:
deposit 1 at day 0
deposit 2 - 4 weeks - at day 30
start of chassis build and assign number - 2 months - day 90
chassis/body bonding - 3 months - at day 180
paint with tony complete - 12 weeks - at day 270
final assembly - 3 months - day 360
Based upon this, as long as the engine and wheels show up prior to completion of paint, there should be no outside holdups.
Thanks
Ray