I did not consider a body being super expensive.
The body is gonna eat up a lot of hours - a lot of expensive hours.
Go take a look at just the door on your Jag. Now, consider what it's gonna take to make that. Your 200k might get a fab company to consider it. But, I suspect they'd want that as a down payment.
Its just a couple pieces of sheet metal bent and welded
Did I ever tell you about the time I dated a chick with miniature horses?
Yeah, it's that bending and welding that are gonna cost a whole lot of money.
Look at how many compound curves are on your door alone. Now, look at the tolerance - that is how precise it must be.
What you can do is order a basic car and then go there to help construct it. You can design your own panels and they're 3D printed. Again, you're gonna need to spend a whole lot of money to design something like that and to have it printed, but it'd be less expensive.
You have to help build it so that you can legally register it. So long as it meets the standards, you can build your own car and register it for use on the roads.
But, trying to recreate a car and get it even remotely like the original is gonna cost a whole lotta dough. It might even be hard to find a shop willing to take it on, now that I think about it.
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