Sometimes a strange car will gain a sort of “cult” following, and that’s when you sometimes end up with a situation like you describe, where parts are made by many different 3rd parties. I have an old Japanese 4x4 that was so awesome that Mopar had to team up with consumer reports and the government to kill it. It’s 30+ years old and I can get parts for it as easily as I can an F150.
Notable past and current examples of this include:
That sounds freaking rad to me. I want an open source car standard so bad. Exposed screwheads, teardowns galore, commonly available parts.
I’d even learn manual. I hear they’re fun.
The biggest con is we’ve been trained to see vehicles as fashion and status statements rather than their utility.
Putting one of those together would be a pretty awesome highschool shop class.
Sometimes a strange car will gain a sort of “cult” following, and that’s when you sometimes end up with a situation like you describe, where parts are made by many different 3rd parties. I have an old Japanese 4x4 that was so awesome that Mopar had to team up with consumer reports and the government to kill it. It’s 30+ years old and I can get parts for it as easily as I can an F150.
Notable past and current examples of this include:
Chevy Corvair
Geo Metro
Harley-davidson anything
Jeep wrangler
Suzuki Samurai
Toyota Supra
Edit: formatting are hard