@Gordon Nichols posted:Carey has always said that it's all of the little things, like trim bits and window frames that make the coupes particularly difficult to build.
It might be fun to see what the feasibility is of 3-D printing difficult things like the window frames, door and window handles, hood handles, sunroof cranks and so forth - Even the inside trim for the windows. Make the base frame out of resin and then 3D print Nickel and Chrome over that.
Design changes would be easy and quick and it would be repeatable. I'm not saying this will automatically be cost effective in the volume SE would be seeing, but it would be interesting to look into, just to see it done. Guys around here are laser-scanning antique parts into CAD and then 3D printing exact copies. Fascinating stuff.
On an episode of Wheeler Dealers they did just that. They needed a plastic part for a sunroof that is no longer manufactured. They took it to a place in Los Angeles and handed them the broken bits. They glue the broken bits back together, scanned the part, and printed it out. Charged them like $15.00 which was probably way cheaper than the OEM part would have been if it was in stock.