Hot Rods FORD to restamp '32 bodies?

Well said - we can do it here in North America, just choose not to for a quick up-front return without a thought about the long-term effects. We have become a society of throw-away consumers comfortable with selling our countries out.

On that note, what do you consider cost effective in regards to stamping costs?

Steve

 

Yep, they jumped through the flaming hoops and got the licensed repro part thing. From the comments I've seen on the net they will sell a lot more individual pieces than bodys but new replacement steel for your five window sitting in your garage is pretty cool.

SoCal Sacramento a**** others lists that body.

 

I have a buddy that runs a stamping plant in Michigan and asked him what he would figure it would cost to set up all the stamping dies to do a 32 roadster body and buy the presses he said it could be done for $2 million. Less if the place bought run time in a pressing plant and used their own dies. He says that the place a few buildings down from them was bough out by a china company closed down and presses shipped over seas. Roughly $30 million in presses gone to china. I asked basically hiring a stamping company to just stamp cost of stamping after dies are done he said when they were doing a new hood brace the cost was about $12-18 each for first 100k $6-8 2nd. He said to be profitable you'd have to make more than 300 bodies. A few months ago an investment group walked his plant to stamp a body of a car he's not allowed to say and the company here vs china built cost difference is less than $250 per body before import cost. He said the benefit of a 32 would be you wouldn't ever change model years so it would be more cost effective than new car stuff.
I can say my father in law owns a medical supply company and they turn a profit and everything is made here.

So when and if I ever play the lottery and win I'll put the money up and build 32's or talk the family into investing in changing from medical supplies to steel!


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