1962 starfire factory pickup?
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(styling studio was the most important and well funded department and the guys that ran it had a lot of say. Whatever it took to convert this car to civilian life was just done and it was the tiniest rounding error on the balance sheet for the company. You are correct in that it was likely a fair amount of work by our standards, but they were fully equipped and staffed, so for them it wasn't that tough. It truly must have been a fantastic time to have worked there.)
still is that way. And still is a great place to work. I work in the paint shop in the design studio. We still do customs, prototypes, one offs. Movie cars .. not all get shown to public but it is still being done
still is that way. And still is a great place to work. I work in the paint shop in the design studio. We still do customs, prototypes, one offs. Movie cars .. not all get shown to public but it is still being done
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What pain in the butt? Custom built cars get titled and registered all the time now. It's not hard and it was even easier back in the '60s.
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The pain in the butt that an oem, as opposed to you, the consumer, faces. Let's say Toyota makes a concept car, then they want to put it on the road and eventually sell the thing. To legally sell that car as an oem to an individual it would have to meet all fed regulations, like emissions, crash tests, and so on. You'd have to make about ten cars for various federal testing to be allowed to sell that one car to an individual because it is a production vehicle, just like the ones off the lines.
I should have refined my statement and said "sold". Perhaps GM had figured out how they can VIN a vehicle as experimental and never sell it, and perhaps that is legal. I would not know, as my company tends to destroy trial vehicles, and never vin concept cars. As such, that privately held Starfire is either illegal AF, or a non-factory custom.
I should have refined my statement and said "sold". Perhaps GM had figured out how they can VIN a vehicle as experimental and never sell it, and perhaps that is legal. I would not know, as my company tends to destroy trial vehicles, and never vin concept cars. As such, that privately held Starfire is either illegal AF, or a non-factory custom.
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The pain in the butt that an oem, as opposed to you, the consumer, faces. Let's say Toyota makes a concept car, then they want to put it on the road and eventually sell the thing. To legally sell that car as an oem to an individual it would have to meet all fed regulations, like emissions, crash tests, and so on. You'd have to make about ten cars for various federal testing to be allowed to sell that one car to an individual because it is a production vehicle, just like the ones off the lines.
I should have refined my statement and said "sold". Perhaps GM had figured out how they can VIN a vehicle as experimental and never sell it, and perhaps that is legal. I would not know, as my company tends to destroy trial vehicles, and never vin concept cars. As such, that privately held Starfire is either illegal AF, or a non-factory custom.
I should have refined my statement and said "sold". Perhaps GM had figured out how they can VIN a vehicle as experimental and never sell it, and perhaps that is legal. I would not know, as my company tends to destroy trial vehicles, and never vin concept cars. As such, that privately held Starfire is either illegal AF, or a non-factory custom.
so, in early 2009, General Motors took hundreds of concept cars, preproduction vehicles, race cars, SEMA show cars, test mules and all sorts of other things to the Barrett-Jackson auctions in Arizona for a huge sell-off.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/content...totypes-261845
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Maybe things are different for Government Motors, but your link is broken. Since you've done nothing but argue the majority of the posts on your recently made account, I am going to concede the point so I don't have to talk to you any more.
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Your getting mad because your wrong! All car company can do this, look the facts up , do a google search , ask another buddy smarter than you , I’m not just here throwing bull around, not the guy I am.. I started this thread to get history on a car, you uniformed person has blown it into something else saying something can’t be done because you don’t know what your talking about !!!
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Those aren't exactly radical customs -- per the accompanying text, most have at best a few bolt-on modifications or trim changes and differ little from production models. I'm sure they all have standard VIN and could be registered as easily as if they'd been bought through a dealer. Try doing that with a custom-bodied one-off like a Mako Shark or a Chrysler turbine car.
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Your getting mad because your wrong! All car company can do this, look the facts up , do a google search , ask another buddy smarter than you , I’m not just here throwing bull around, not the guy I am.. I started this thread to get history on a car, you uniformed person has blown it into something else saying something can’t be done because you don’t know what your talking about !!!
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