Why hasn't anyone made a company to build old cars

Because it's financially unfeasable

Icon, FJ Company.

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kit cars have been around forever

To mass produce the real thing again?

Can't be done, current safety regulations won't allow for anything older than 1995 at best.

Though you can always look for replicas, if that is your thing.

>>17709938
regulashuns

>>17709970
>>17711618
Fuck the regulations. Someone needs the balls to put a stop to this anti-private-vehicle shit.

>>17709938
you could get around it by making them kits
IE you could make a company that makes silvia bodies (no engine) and get people to drop their own sr20s in, since itd probably be way cheaper for the customer to source their own used one than for you produce a new one

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>>17709938
I'm pretty sure this would sell like hotcakes if it was decently priced and had a decent engine.

>>17711686
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/vw-camper-van-back-volkswagen-9590445
Shoulda rounded it out more and gone for a retro-future look since it's literally retro-future incarnate.

>>17711638
You can duck the regulation by only making small amounts (below 30 for US crash or pollution standards iirc), but that would fuck up your economy of scale, meaning it's only viable to do with lusciously expensive cars.

Still, why isn't anybody making new Iso Grifo/Bizarrini/De Tomaso/etc. reproductions? I mean, that would be perfect in terms of price, quantity and desirability. Restomod the underlying stuff, Singer and ICON have shown that rich people are willing to pay half a million for a really good "spiritual successor".

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>>17711693
Agreed. It has nothing on the old styling. On it's own I kinda like it though.

>>17711693
>Shoulda rounded it out more
>its already more rounded than the old....
>but more !!!

Do you wanna drive around in a sphere or something?

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>>17711733
Are we looking at the same headlights? I mean on the concept new one.

Maybe it's a legal thing. Copyright, patents, so forth.

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Why hasn't anyone made a company to simply continue building old cars without a pause?

Oh wait ...

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>>17711686
>>17711693
Klassicfabs (Florida) builds brand new parts for vw buses (split and bay windows). I head they ship tons to Germoney.

When come to chassis... well, no idea of a big company that can do this, but any redneck can build a brand new in his backyard registred as prototype vehicle, therefore, street legal.

>>17711752
How are the rules and regulations in America when it comes to self-built stuff?
Here in Europe they are pretty damn strict and if you need your vehicle inspected too which costs a shitload of money and that doesn't even guarantee it will be streetlegal.

Shit just ain't fun here.

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There's a "DMC" in Texas assembling Deloreans from the parts that were sitting in a warehouse in Ireland for decades. They offer modern upgrade options to improve on the infamously sluggish original.