Just as the subject suggests...
Me and a friend were talking a little while back. We came to the subject of dealer parts prices. I mentioned, what do you think the markup would be to buy every single part(down to the individual nuts and bolts) to build a car from the ground up using only parts purchased at a dealer. I searched for the better part of 20 minutes and found no previous attempt or even mention. It would be interesting to find out. Thanks Jerritt
I don't know what the cost would be, but Johnny Cash has described the results of such an endeavor:
And Bill Patch actually built the vehicle in question.
AC
I remember seeing something that said it would cost like 5x as much to do this.
Prob even more by now.
Some parts would probably be unavailable even as NOS.
As I recall someone figured that out when my car cost about $3,000 new and the parts totaled about $12,000 new, not assembled. That was about 1970.
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