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akku
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May 24, 2026 20:03:56 GMT
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Not the first time something like this has been done, remember the Sri Lankan company making brand new Morris Minor bodies, and so on.
But this is fascinating and it seems to be at reasonable scale.
The tech is interesting and the way they reverse engineer the old cars is neat.
I can see them running into Mercedes' lawyers with their planned 300SL though.
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May 24, 2026 20:46:15 GMT
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The real question is can we use these to reshell our rusty old wrecks and retain the legal identity and registration of the original car? Obviously this will vary dependent upon one's country of residence.
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May 24, 2026 22:24:46 GMT
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I saw this and was kind of baffled, firstly as to wondering what an AE86 was, and then wondering why anyone would clone some old Toyota, that I remember with nothing but indifference. I assume the JDM pervs like these? Good to see some of the others though. a new 240Z body would be very handy, given how these rot.
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May 25, 2026 6:12:47 GMT
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May 24, 2026 20:03:56 GMT akku said:
I can see them running into Mercedes' lawyers with their planned 300SL though.
Somebody here recently shared a video with a 59 caddy or an early corvette, which looked quite close to the originals.
But then the camera moved to a bus, which was obviously only inspired by a vw split bus. Seems vw has such a bunch of lawyers, too, which must be prevented to deal with.
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