Building a car from scratch using only parts from your local dealers parts department

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misterjbeing@yahoo.com - 04 Feb 2009 01:39 GMT

Just as the subject suggests...

Me and a friend were talking a little while back. We came to the
subject of dealer parts prices. I mentioned, what do you think the
markup would be to buy every single part(down to the individual nuts
and bolts) to build a car from the ground up using only parts
purchased at a dealer. I searched for the better part of 20 minutes
and found no previous attempt or even mention. It would be interesting
to find out.
Thanks
Jerritt

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Aawara Chowdhury - 04 Feb 2009 03:17 GMT

> Me and a friend were talking a little while back. We came to the
> subject of dealer parts prices. I mentioned, what do you think the
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> and found no previous attempt or even mention. It would be interesting
> to find out.

I don't know what the cost would be, but Johnny Cash has described the
results of such an endeavor:
<http://music.yahoo.com/Johnny-Cash/One-Piece-At-A-Time-Single-Version/lyrics/22249931>

And Bill Patch actually built the vehicle in question.
<http://www.geocities.com/potatochippers/Onepiece.html>

AC

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SnoBrdr - 04 Feb 2009 10:38 GMT

>Just as the subject suggests...
>
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>Thanks
>Jerritt

I remember seeing something that said it would cost like 5x as much to
do this.

Prob even more by now.

Some parts would probably be unavailable even as NOS.

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sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com - 04 Feb 2009 13:19 GMT

>Just as the subject suggests...
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>Thanks
>Jerritt

As I recall someone figured that out when my car cost about
$3,000 new and the parts totaled about $12,000 new, not assembled.
That was about 1970.

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