Consider the following scenario: A tumultuous automaker makes only 25 of a certain car before going out of business forever. The factory gets destroyed, most of the files get shredded, blah blah blah. Is it theoretically possible for a bored billionaire to buy some of the remaining vehicles and reverse-engineer them to produce a 100-strong fleet of exact replicas?
>>28668139You can, but you need a market to sell these these cars and customers lined up to buy them. You do know the shit he, Wiegert, went through, right? Everything from bad publicity (Andre Agassi damaging his Vector W-8) cuz he ran it too hard when he was told it needed more work, that Malaysian (? - I forget exactly which *nesian island nation) dictator’s son who hostile take over-ed the company from Wiegert.It was brutal. And that was in the early 90s. You’re gonna be bleeding money, but don’t let that stop you. And Jerry Weigert did also make those special “AquaJet” jet skis that were reportedly handled like motorcycles for the water.You need buyers, investors, a market to sell this shit in, and more. It will be hard. And don’t end up like that shit Elio three wheeled car company that only exists to scam investors’ money.
>>28668139Probablyand you could probably just borrow parts form other manufacturers for stuff you cant figure out
>>28668139And you’ll run into some other problems too. Where will you have parts made? US skilled work ain’t cheap. China is but that shit is junk. Mexico is better quality than China but still not great for a Vector W-8. You’ll find costs for manufacture, delivery/transport high, tariffs, etc. and it will drain your funds.I want this to succeed but a business exists to make money and not lose it. You’ll need a side hustle like Wiegert’s AquaJet venture. Like how automotive companies make cars/trucks that sell in massive numbers and then make a few halo sports cars that sell in far less quantities.
>>28668178The W-8 did use taillights from some Toyota car among other parts.
>>28668139With 3D scanning anything is possible for capturing the body and interior. The issue is as other anons said, is it worth it?Why chase the past, when you could chase the future like they did?Its a wedge with a faceted top. Make your own faceted wedge, case your own dreams. Want it to be inspired by aerospace? Look at aerospace and copy it a bit. The vector did. It also chased futurism of it's era.By the way: I saw that car in the wild as a kid. It was cool.
>>28668139Probably not exact if you're missing the schematics or tooling. But you can get very close, especially if it's a small company using a lot of off the shelf OEM parts.
>>28668139>dur hur if I have a thing can I make another thing ?!Literally just take one apart, stick a fuckilg.caliper on all the parts, have a draftsman draw out schematics and copy the parts.Is this a bot thread?Too many Vector threads lately to be organic.
