[V8Vairs] Parts - Availability

[AKidd]

As a business person I wouldn't put any money into building Crown or Kelmark
parts.  You need to know your market.  How many corvairs are going to get
converted to V8's per year?  10?  Of that how many would be done as a crown
considering that there are many ways to put a V8 into a vair.  Who in their
right mind would pay for a production run for that kind of market?  Even if
you find someone to build 20 that gives you two years supply assuming
everyone in the world buys from you.  You then have to finance it, store
them and look after them.  The fact that Ted & Cal both couldn't make a go
of it should be an indication that this is not the market to be chasing.

-----Original Message-----
From: v8vairs-bounces at corvair.org [mailto:v8vairs-bounces at corvair.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Goodman
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:09 AM
To: v8vairs at corvair.org
Cc: The Source, Inc.
Subject: Re: [V8Vairs] Parts - Availability

Hello all:  I don't envy the vendors like David (THE SOURCE).  The costs
involved in getting a shop to make parts for us is a high price and I don't
blame them for not wanting to commit to this without some signal of interest
from customers.

The customer that I had in the shop yesterday is wanting to build another v8
car, he already has the CORVAIR, just wanting the kit.  I told him about
Chuck's kit but he just didn't get that excited about it due to the fact
that it is used and 1500miles away.  I still sent him Chuck's post from last
night about the kit just in case.  I don't know whether it was because it
was used or because of the shipping.

Hopefully the v8 kits can continue to be available, we need to beat the
bushes to get some new interest in buying the parts I guess.  It looks like
Cal won't bother to do any more CROWN parts so it is up to someone else,
might as well be the SOURCE but all of us need to find a way to support
David too.

It may very well be the fact that the WILLS kit is available, the interest
in starting from scratch with the CROWN kit is not as great but it leaves
guys like Paul Strohl in a bind for parts.

Regards, Steve

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