Cost for a turnkey ERA slabside?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by tkb289

Not to hijack the thread, but have two questions ...

- How much of the assembly have you done and how much was done by Kirkham?

I was going to touch on that myself. If you go to the Kirkhams and ask them to build you a 100% turnkey finished car, with nothing more to build on it at all, will they do that for you? Or do they force you to screw around with the "somebody else has to drop the engine and transmission in for you" crap that, evidently, California is really starting to harp on?

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I was going to touch on that myself. If you go to the Kirkhams and ask them to build you a 100% turnkey finished car, with nothing more to build on it at all, will they do that for you? Or do they force you to screw around with the "somebody else has to drop the engine and transmission in for you" crap that, evidently, California is really starting to harp on?

I don't think Kirkham does turnkey cars for the US market. But I think Keith Craft has dropped an engine/transmission in a Kirkham before and sold it as a turnkey car.

[doublegcustoms]

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daren

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Or do they force you to screw around with the "somebody else has to drop the engine and transmission in for you" crap that, evidently, California is really starting to harp on?

Patrick,

That is NOT "California", that is the Federal law! That some so far have managed to bypass that minor issue is not the point. The law says that a "turn-key" car is a "Vehicle" and thus subject to all fedreral standards of EPA, NHTSA, etc.

Those manufacturers and "dealers" who have flounted the regulations to date are now under the crosshairs of the Califonia authorities and I would suspect the Feds as well.

Having the powertrian installed in the back room of the dealer by a company owned by the brother-in-law of the dealer is not an "Arms length" transaction and does not pass the Feds defination of the "sniff test" (if it smells, it's probably rotten) so anyone who asks for and purchases a "Turn-key" from the chassis manufacturer or dealer is not likely to get a warm fuzzy from the Cali DMV right now. And I would guess the Feds are not far behind............

I only post this on the ERA forum as this is general information and NOT brand specific. I know that ERA does it the right, legal way while some others are not.