I won't reveal my source. I trust my source. My source said that there will be no press releases until 2011. He also said that AMD wasn't building all of these little braces and brackets because a few of us need them. The market for these pieces by themselves would be too small to ever profit from them.
Personally, I can see where the Mustang bodies would not be profitable. The only reason the 67's and 68's were popular was because of the Eleanor clones. Now, that fad has passed and no one is screaming for those bodies. You can still find Camaro bodies. I've sold many of mine recently and only kept one 70 SS RS.
The only new crate body that was mentioned to me was the '71 cuda convertible. No a-bodies, no '70 cudas, no hardtops.
As for vin's, I don't have a clue. All I know is the new '32 Ford Coupe body was accepted as a replacement part number by Ford and can be titled as a replacement for the body on a real '32. We've built two so far.
As long as they are not sold as running, driving cars, they're considered either replacement parts or kit cars. They haven't stopped the companies from building the Cobra kit cars have they? That's a concept that's not too hard to grasp.
With the economy the way that it is, we might see many of the repro companies filing bankruptcy soon anyway. If you need repro parts, you might want to go ahead and get them now. I know that I am. I'm buying the parts for several of my projects right now. In fact, the new grille assembly for my 70 cuda arrived today. I've spent several thousand dollars this year. I have projects to finish.
I've been told by one of the largest repro parts guys that they will not make second batches of many of these cool new parts that you've seen advertised lately. When they're gone...they're gone. Sales are just too slow to be profitable. Guys have screamed for these new parts and now that they're available they're screaming that they're too expensive. Go buy a quarter panel for a 2008 model car. That "limited sales" part for your Cuda will seem cheap. Everybody wants something for nothing.
Anyway, we'll just wait and see on that 71 body. I'm just hoping that I don't get a call from my source screaming at me for saying anything about it.
See you at SEMA.
