<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: marxjunk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">there has been a program in existence since the 70s...i know GM had them..they sold a car to technical schools etc and called them "bodies in white"
NO VIN just a brand new shell in primer. The company i work for gets them often in current production...especially BMWs for training processes etc..we use them to measure and do structural repairs in a training process..
I remeber somewhere seeing an article or some print on a Fox body mustang that could be bought as a "body in white" to be used as a race car..but it was not a car per-say it was a brand new shell with absolutely nothing on it..and was bolted to a crate
I saw an early 80s camaro, before the body change, as a shell..it was bought and intended to be a race car and it was never built
I know these arent exactly what you are asking about..but...could you imagine if one made it on the street..you could do anything you wanted
by the way..in modern times..the cars are owned by the factory and must be returned and or crushed when done with. </div></div>
In Dec of 89 I purchased a one of four built 1988 Camaro IROC 1LE from Mecum racing. They were located in MI, and were at the time one of the factory supported teams competing in the IMSA Firehawk endurance series. The team manager hauled the car out west to deliver to me,as he was picking up two 89 MY Camaro 1LE 'bodies in white" from the Van Nuys plant. We met there and I remember those two shells in the transporter. Won two SCCA divisional national championships in that car, they didn't handle like production versions
A few years later I drove briefly for W2W racing out of LIvonia,before Pontiac pulled out of that racing. They were THE factory team in that series-the cars then were WS6 Firebird formulas, same bodies in white then too.