Hi Jim Dunmyer, hope you are having a nice day
Friday, 10 October 1997 07:27:35, Jim Dunmyer wrote to Day Brown
Subject: GENERIC VEHICLE
 >> It looks to me like you could assemble the whole rig with just a
 >> set of wrenches. So, how much would you save on a new 4X4?
 JD> Day, I think you might be surprised at any 'savings' from
 JD> home-brewing a vehicle from scratch. Those little missing tidbits
 JD> would KILL you. And, if you're attempting to mix 'n match
 JD> components you aren't going to use 'just a set of wrenches' to
 JD> assemble it
FWIW A motoring club magazine that I subscribe to recently conducted a
survey of spare parts prices of different car makers in this country
(Australia). To enable some sort of comparison that calculated how much
it would cost to construct a car out of spare parts as priced by the
various makers. This was then compared to the recommended showroom price
for a factory assembled vehicle.
        To keep things simple, the cheapest was seven times the vehicles
showroom list price and the dearest was twenty seven times the vehicles
showroom list price.
        I think you might save a dollar if you bought an insurance write-off
vehicle and were able to fix it up. I doubt if you would be in front if
you had to buy all the bits new.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
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