No dont think you can rego them as hot rods,

This will be the biggest drama when they land, sure many will pop on some old id plates and away you go but thats been slammed pretty quick with rta with mokes



Living the Dream

If it is a replacement shell, a spare part as such, does it not only have to comply with the adrs at the time, therefore if you already have a Monaro just use the shell.

No different to reproducing the front guards, they would not comply with current ADRs.

Just a thought.

As for building a whole car from one of those shells, that would be almost impossible, as there are far too many unique Monaro parts, you would need a whole car to get those things from.

Warren

I dont really care what they do ??? Think about this; with AC Shelby Cobra Replicas $$ or the real thing theres a big price difference Ha!! these things will [Never] Have 81837 attached to them or sag hump /diff hump or even a 327****h5 what a shame. Dont get me wrong if thats youre budget then great i understand ; but i dought very much if it will have any if at all impact on a 68. not a 2009

More interesting ?

Will like to see if anything actually eventuates from this one ? ?

Surely manufacturing technique would be different and these shells might just be easy to pick from the original.

Can anyone comment on the differences between these new Camaro & Mustang shells and the genuine article?

Edited by user Tuesday, 12 May 2009 3:01:58 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Right I contacted RTA cause this is bugging me, I have a brand new body shell for another of my classics hence why I am keen to hear what is said here

RTA says at first - no problems he agreed better to have a new body rather then bunch of new panels welded to old rusty body, I said are you sure I can replace the complete body (knowing how misinformed they can be) well he goes away your and says I stand corrected if the body has no original ID numbers ie from factory in the 60s as a replacement part/panel from Holden, its ilegal to stamp a body number into it, and as its a new body building a new car, it requires it to meet current ADRs for that year you register it ie 2009,

So in that case a new body must meet new laws as your building a new car, which incurs a huge bill and I would say something no one has cash or time to do

Let me know if anyone has a better understanding to this law? what s***s you the most is there is nothing in writting to read and to use as a guide and typical RTA fassion yeah you go by a persons word but that means sod all when you go to do something



Living the Dream

Edited by user Tuesday, 12 May 2009 5:22:39 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

This is why I asked why cant it be treated like a hotrod, or a Cobra replica or any kit car for that matter.

A 32 Ford hotrod made out of all new bits, doesnt have to pass 2009 ADRs so why should an HK or HQ, made out of a new shell have to.

Can it be classified as an individually constructed vehicle. Are there no rules for this because the RTA hasnt had to think about this before. Surely there is someone out there who has more idea than we do about this.

Dr Terry.

The problem is,

1/ If a body shell is a replacement part why then is this such a big deal? or

2/ If a body shell is the car and the rest is components, then surely it is a 2009 model?

how then do they nominate the year model of kit cars which have been fitted with era components?

quote:

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Originally posted by we wreck 81837s only
DOC,

If you build a 32 out of glass in VIC, and with repro chassis, you have to rego it as an 09 car.

it you use 1932 steel cowl, or original 1932 chassis with all glass bits on it, you can rego it as 1932 car

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Exactly if it was a 1960s body/spare shell then no problem, but a modern take on it then no rego needs to meet current ADRs

As for job justification there is a lot of that at the moment in current market of employment, as there is a lot of top heavy management sitting doing nothing


Living the Dream

I would be happy if they just did full HQ coupe 1/4 panels, that was often the big killer to most of the shells I have seen, the simple lack of anyone doing a replacement section between the door & wheel arch, the inner sill is no problem & you can use the sedan sections to repair the lower 1/4s.

as for the full HK shells, warren can corrct me if im wrong, but isnt there a difference between early HKs & the later ones in reguard to the windscreen pillars & to convert the new HK to HT-HG would only require the tail lamp openings to be modified? which wouldnt be difficult at all.



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