[twobjshelbys]

OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here with some questions and follow with some sage advice...

First, you are asking questions about a market that I think you don't really understand.

Second, you work for a company that does aluminum bodies in some kind of volume. If the market were there what makes you think that they wouldn't be in it already?

Third, you sound like a young person or at least a person without much business background. If you've never started a business before, you are going to spend a lot of time getting the business going and growing it. You won't be left with much time to implement it.

I'm not asking any question here that any savvy business backer (bank or venture capitalist) won't ask you. Unless you already have enough money to start up, they will ask you "What is your product and business plan?"

No matter what, the TAM (total available market) for an aftermarket alloy body is small, would be saturated quickly with little continuing business after the gap is filled, and it is purely labor intensive and cyclical.

Good luck.