Re: manufactureing new sciroccos

[Jerry Carter <jerry.carter@shaw.ca>]

Holy out pouring of support batman!

does anybody know how many I would bave to build to be able to call it a
"Production vehicle"? right now I'm looking at 5 just for the Rally team,
but if I have to make more I could probably do about 75 a year, with a
little (ok, a LOT) of help from my friends. I would probably have to sell
them as well. would $10,000 be a bad price to set for these cars? would
anybody buy them? I was doing the math last night and I worked it out that
it would cost me about $8000 per unit  if I built 75. That's the maximem I
could make in one year assuming that I keep my existing facilities.

I have to admit though, I thought it would be different. I thought I'd be
excomunicated for trying! I did think about the tubular frame concept, but
that usually builds a cold car. I'm thinking more along the lines of a
semi-unibody - a tubular frame that's encased with stress bearing body
panels. that way the tubular fram wouldn't have to be quite as extensive
which would save on weight.

Thinking about the lowering suspention thread, I'd think it would be easy to
just drop in a re-designed suspention to drop the car and still retain the
suspention geometry. Wondering if that's something that I should offer?

Gotta love market research...
Jerry Carter
'81 Mk1 Scirocco

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott F. Williams" <sfwilliams@home.com>
To: "Jerry Carter" <jerry.carter@shaw.ca>; "Scirocco List"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: RE: manufactureing new sciroccos


> I hate to burst your bubble there, Jerry. However, the rulebook prohibits
> non-production chassis-based rallycars. Btw, who told you never to rally a
> Scirocco? I think it is a silly idea when there are nearly free Golfs out
> there, but...
> --
> Scott F. Williams
> NJ Scirocco nut
> Golf GTI 16v rallycar
> Mazda 323 GTX turbo assault vehicle
> ClubVAC: "Roads found. Drivers wanted."
>
> Check out our rally team's website!
> http://www.usrallyteam.com
>
> > At 08:37 PM 11/30/01 -0800, Jerry Carter wrote:
> > >Ok, I have to ask, what yould you think if I said I was going to
> > take a pile
> > >of sheetmetal and pipes and build me a  'roc from scratch? I'd
> > be using my
> > >'81 as a template, and basicly cloning it.
> > >
> > >has my last statement just made me the most evil person in the world?
> > >
> > >but truly, I'm thinking of building one from scratch, maybe taking out
an
> > >engine and dropping that into the beast. but mainly doing
> > everything myself.
> > >The reason that I'm thinking about this is the phrase that I've heard
too
> > >many times to ignore "NEVER RALLY A "ROC' and that what I want
> > to do. is it
> > >evil to rally a Faux 'roc?
> > >
> > >Just wondering...
> > >Jerry Carter
> > >'81 Mk1 Scirocco
> >
>
>
>
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