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Mail From: David J. Hammar (email redacted)

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:09:31 EDT, (email redacted) wrote:
>In a message dated 5/27/98 11:40:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > > Did you see the article in Mustang Monthly that some people are
> > > thinking about starting a company to produce new '65/'66 Mustangs?
> > > Actually they plan to start a factory below the border (Mexico?) that
> > > will take the original OldStock and refurbish/upgrade them for resale.
>they reported the 65 - 66 refurbs in the issue I just got in the
>mail (which is probably June or July's). Personally, I think it's an
>interesting idea. Wonder what the cost will be and how it will affect
>originality of the cars?

Since they're talking about creating a "RestoMod" production line which
will involve buying up used Mustang bodies and gutting them to create a
"1990's" version of the early cars. Not really the first time this has
been tried, certainly. All it will really do is further reduce the supply
of rebuildable/unrestored originals and create a bunch of (probably
overpriced) restomods for folks too lazy to build their own...

If they were restoring to *original* standards, or manufacturing entirely
*new* Mustang replicas, I might feel differently.
-- Dave H.
hammar.dyn.ml.org/~djhamma
hammar.detour.net/~djhamma


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>>Did you see the article in Mustang Monthly that some people are
>>thinking about starting a company to produce new '65/'66 Mustangs?

Nissan is/has been officially doing refurbished 240z's to sell through their
dealerships with full warranty. Don't know how well the program is doing. So
there is precedent for the idea.
Ed in NC

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