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@550 Phil posted:

Carey from SE contacted Intermeccanica in regards to purchasing now unused IM parts/technology and was told that anything regarding prior IM parts/technology such as the Conv D top is not for sale. I figure that all of this was part of Henry’s buyout and is now the property of Electramechanica or whatever they are calling it. That’s a real shame.

OK, that is a real shame, but not unexpected.

But...

I keep hearing how nobody can figure out the Convertible D top, and it confuses me.

Used IM roadsters come up for sale from time to time for less than $50K. If a car could be located and purchased, the top and door cards can be removed easily enough to be shamelessly copied. If it really is as magical as everybody acts like it is, then there would be some money to be made in backward engineering (in the east Asian tradition).

Once everything is loaded into a CNC program, it's just a matter of laser-cutting, deburring, and assembly. You could put the car back together and sell it (probably at a profit).

It'd be a nice retirement gig for somebody with some machines or contacts in industrial fabrication, along with copying the overriders Gray Eagle used to make, which seem to be unobtanium now.

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