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mp67

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A turnkey minus mustang, like the cobra kit car companies. Then we could put whatever engine and tranny we want into it. Or we could just hook up a donkey to it and pull it around. Or put a big solar panel on it and make it go. Use a couple of girbles on a treadmill under the hood. Or maybe sail power, wind is free. Or maybe we could just either buy or not buy what they offer now. I just cant figure this whole thing out.

 

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They call it a body in white. And they do sell them.

 

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Yeah, you can buy that. Good Idea anyway.

 

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SVTdriver said:

They call it a body in white. And they do sell them.

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And it comes with everything except engine and tranny?

 

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Well pretty much. I think you need interior and what not. But you can do anything you want to it. This place sells something like that.

http://www.stangparts.com/home.cfm?section=forsale/index

 

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spanky442 said:

Well pretty much. I think you need interior and what not. But you can do anything you want to it. This place sells something like that.

http://www.stangparts.com/home.cfm?section=forsale/index

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Man, thats a stripper. I mean a production GT minus engine and tranny. Thats what the cobra makers call turnkey minus. That would be cool. You could stuff the biggest, baddest engine you could squease in. Too bad federal regulations would not allow it.

 

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mp67 said:

... Or we could just hook up a donkey to it and pull it around...

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I'm sure that would be a big seller amongst the amish community!

 

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I wonder if you could try to license it as a kit car.

 

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SVTdriver said:

They call it a body in white. And they do sell them.

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They do? Where can you get one?

 

SVTdriver

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Spanky posted where you can buy them. But in case youmissed it
http://www.stangparts.com/home.cfm?section=forsale/index

 

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I posted in here when this forum first started questions about an 05 Body in White, that I could shoehorn my own stroked Windsor into, or something like that.

From what I saw posted, it would be an off-road car only, would not have VIN, and could not be titled or registered, even as a kit car.

I was thinking the same thing:

2005 BIW, 408 windsor, and about 15 lbs of boost...OOOO MYYYYYY!

Hax

 

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I don't understand why the body is not for street use.

 

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it's my understanding that as long as you build it to street legal specs (lights/brakes/windshield/horn/etc.) you could apply for a title from the state, have them inspect it and have a state issued VIN applied to the car. Now granted, it wouldn't be a Ford factory VIN, but it should make it street legal. Pretty much the same principle that dune buggies and kit cars go off of.

 

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98CobraClone said:

it's my understanding that as long as you build it to street legal specs (lights/brakes/windshield/horn/etc.) you could apply for a title from the state, have them inspect it and have a state issued VIN applied to the car. Now granted, it wouldn't be a Ford factory VIN, but it should make it street legal. Pretty much the same principle that dune buggies and kit cars go off of.

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Yeah, but would'nt you have to meet 05 emmsissons?

 

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That would be pretty cool. You could try to squeeze a 502 in there....I wonder if you could buy them sans-hood??

 

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I know here is CT, you can get a composite registration which many people use for T-Buckets and street rods. I would assume the same would apply to something like this.

 

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Just an FYI: You can also get "Bodies in White" from <a href="http://www.classicdesignconcepts.com/catalog/itemdisplay/548.html">Classic Design Concepts</a> for $1400.00.

A guy in my home town builds his own cars, from scratch, and drives them all around. I don't know much more about them then that but I do know that you can build your own car and it be legal.