[JoeC]

It is very expensive to stop or slow down an assembly line so any special work would have to be set up in advance with all the correct parts available. Chevy did this with the COPO cars. If a project required extensive modifications it would have to be done off line in Engineering or in a prototype shop. The factories also used outside vendors. Demmer Tool and Die in Lansing Michigan built some Hemi cars, AMXs, and some Hurst cars. The Boss 429 Mustangs were built at the Kar Kraft facility in Brighton, Michigan. Some Corvette bodies were supplied by Dow-Smith, a division of A.O. Smith Company, in Ionia Michigan.


[Edited by JoeC (06-06-2001 at 07:55 AM).]