So the law passed that says you can make replica cars.

[SteveSS]

I guess this has been a long fight but it's over. You can now make replicas of cars 25 years old or older. The engines are subject to modern emissions.

What would you make?

https://www.rcnmag.com/news/nhtsa-issues-final-ruling-for-low-volume-manufacturers-act

 

[SteveSS]

The article above says you still have to get the intellectual property rights from the original manufacturer but this article says.

First, registrants will no longer have to submit documentation or possess a license to the intellectual property necessary to make a replica vehicle but simply certify to the fact. Second, replicas won’t be required to maintain the exact dimensions of the original vehicle in question, but rather maintain a 10 percent over/under.

 

[CBODY67]

Might find more information at www.SEMA.org . Might also need to check with your local DMV as to what documentation might be required, too.

CBODY67

 

[bandit67]

I guess there a lot of questions that will need to be addressed. If we have five companies wanting to reproduce 68 Chargers.....does that mean Chrysler gets to choose who gets it , or can they all make them if they pay a set fee....who sets that fee? So, if I am Company A and I sell all 5k of my 70 Challengers do I get to open Company B and sell 5k more.....

 

[CBODY67]

Rather than produce complete turn-key cars, doing the replica body cars, using everything completely new, it still might be better to use existing available parts to re-build hulls with a factory VIN than not. I recall there being a limit of the total production which is well under 5K/year. NONE of this will be inexpensive, by observation.

In the realm of factory restoration parts, as a point of reference, any approved supplier that wants the "Restoration Parts" term attached to their items, first will need to supply finished items built to the original OEM specs for approval from the OEM, which will sell them exclusively with that notation. Once that is all approved and such, then the supplier will pay a set fee (used to be 5%) for each item sold in order to use the "Restoration Parts" logo.

When Chrysler got into the restoration parts realm of things, their operatives claimed that they pulled the orig blueprints and then went back to the people that built them back then. As it turned out, FEW of the older people at the vendors were still around. Additionally, the parts under the "Restoration Parts" flag were the last-design-build versions. Which means that a 1970 electronic voltage regulator, which was "service replaced" with a factory unit would be the 1972 version of that regulator, for example. So it's not completely accurate, but still a factory -spec part. BTAIM

In the current time, it still might be best to see what AMD has in their catalog for that "parts car" to rebuild it.

Just some thoughts and observations,
CBODY67

 

[sam dupont]

I wonder how much a B Body, Body in White would be?

 

[wldgtx]

I guess there a lot of questions that will need to be addressed. If we have five companies wanting to reproduce 68 Chargers.....does that mean Chrysler gets to choose who gets it , or can they all make them if they pay a set fee....who sets that fee? So, if I am Company A and I sell all 5k of my 70 Challengers do I get to open Company B and sell 5k more.....

It makes me think of Cobra replicas. There are plenty of options if you want to buy a Cobra replica, but they are not all the same build or quality.