Complete Chassis Manufacturing

[oldgeek]

This company was making aftermarket panels and was getting requests for body panels for classic vehicles. So, they decided to jump full in and make complete chassis. The amount of work involved is boggling. The video maker gets into the ethics a bit.

 

[SenorNoob]

I've seen some of these on Facebook reels. Seems like a good way to "salvage" something that's really too far gone.

 

[Shran]

My buddy "restored" his grandpa's Jeep CJ5 with a brand new tub that came from the Philippines. IIRC it was only like $2500 (looks like they are $3500+ now) and there were some weird quirks compared to the original but I was pretty impressed with it. His original one was maybe fixable but had a LOT of rust. I think if you are OK with making adjustments and modifications to make things fit, it's a really great concept. I just doubt you'll ever see any less common stuff - probably relying on junkyard donors indefinitely for a 75 Pontiac Bonneville or a 42 DeSoto sedan.

Hopefully their processes can make really high quality fitting parts, I have never been impressed with aftermarket body panels. One fender on my F150 was sort of too short... the front valance on my stepside truck has wrinkles around the turn signal light holes, a Ranger hood from Taiwan was really floppy and flimsy...etc... fit & finish is always lacking.

 

[Blmpkn]

My buddy "restored" his grandpa's Jeep CJ5 with a brand new tub that came from the Philippines. IIRC it was only like $2500 (looks like they are $3500+ now) and there were some weird quirks compared to the original but I was pretty impressed with it. His original one was maybe fixable but had a LOT of rust. I think if you are OK with making adjustments and modifications to make things fit, it's a really great concept. I just doubt you'll ever see any less common stuff - probably relying on junkyard donors indefinitely for a 75 Pontiac Bonneville or a 42 DeSoto sedan.

Hopefully their processes can make really high quality fitting parts, I have never been impressed with aftermarket body panels. One fender on my F150 was sort of too short... the front valance on my stepside truck has wrinkles around the turn signal light holes, a Ranger hood from Taiwan was really floppy and flimsy...etc... fit & finish is always lacking.

For a lot of stuff.. as long as it's close that's really good enough.

Makes me think of this old guy who lives across the street from a guy I work with.. he's been restoring an fj40 for like the past decade.. clearly he wants to keep things as "original" as possible because at one point he had the one he's restoring and FIVE MORE cluttering up his yard to salvage parts off of.

Just the amount of travel he must've done to get 5 of those things kinda boggles my mind. He's committed.. it's taken him awhile but it's really starting to come together..