How do owners of very old or rare vehicles find replacement parts to keep it running?
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One way is to have custom parts made. Its often not that hard to find a metal shop that can fabricate a replacement part for you, even many people who have these old cars may also do some of the work themselves
Another option is that many parts don’t change alot, you may be able to use versions of a part made much later right away or with some modifications.
One more, but theres many, is that many old or rare vehicles may already have many parts replaced with newer ones. Its pretty common for old vintage cars to have their entire engine upgraded to a newer more powerful version, along with plenty of other parts, but the exterior will remain the same, but the insides might be a whole different car. Ship of Theseus vibes.
A one off example. I knew some people that were part of a hot rod crew. Most of their cars were orginally from the 20s-40s, some a little later, but were generally heavily modified versions that still looked like the original car, but were basically suped up versions. There’s nothing wrong with that, even people in those times with those cars were upgrading them and such too! They may not be the out of the factory car, but that was never the point
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