Re: [DML] Re: Historic Blunders

[Lee <lseiler@xxxx>]

At 03:18 PM 5/4/00 -0000, you wrote:
>
>I'm sure I'm missing something here..
>
>Assuming the British Gov't destroyed the original dies used to 
>stamp the body panels, why can't some enterprising person take an 
>existing LF fender (for example), make a new die from that, and get a 
>few hundred fenders produced? Are the starup costs just too great? 
>Are there legal issues with copying the design? Obviously, there is 
>enough demand. Has this been tried before?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Hank Eskin
>
reply:

Hank,


It's mostly the cost of the dies then the cost of stamping. With as few as
200
units the cost would be close to if not more that the current price.
Working stainless is
not as easy as you might think, it is different than regular steel. You may
not that there
are no complex curves in any of the Delorean stainless panels. They are for
the most part
developed surfaces, which is no accident. Consider for a moment that when
the car was in production the part cost several hundred dollars with 8,000
units stamped out.

Now there is another solution - Hand fabrication

My understanding that there is a place in Germany doing just that, I don't
know the price how ever. Maybe some other list member can add to this
information.

Lee


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