Part Sharing Gone Wrong

"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano) 02/22/2014 at 14:05 • Filed to: None

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When building the K-car based New Yorker...

they used the rear doors and roof from the Caravelle.

Under the landau roof, sits this mess. OMFG!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Goggles Pizzano 02/22/2014 at 14:11

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That's not parts-sharing, that is being a total hack as a design engineer on a truly legendary level.

Then again" K-car based New Yorker" is a terrible, terrible phrase in and of itself.

Goggles Pizzano > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/22/2014 at 14:18

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How could all that Labor be cheaper than a new part? And the potential leaks!?!?

It's like there was so much part-sharing going on they forgot how to make new parts. That, or they were doing it, just to do it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Goggles Pizzano 02/22/2014 at 14:36

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My guess, they had reserve plant capacity somewhere that wasn't sheet-metal. Tool up for Caravelles *and* New Yorkers for steel, kick some off the line to get the bay window glued in. Still, it's usually easier or at least better to make the sheet metal more modular, even if cut'n'pasting is going on, than to half-ass it this ridiculously.

Take the Mini Clubman. Its construction involves basically being made on the standard line, jerked out, cut and lengthened with a new tail attached. Or the old Ford club wagon e-series vans: prosthetic butt extension that lengthens the body about a foot and uses the existing rear body cap and sheet metal. In neither of those cases is the answer "glue something in place, caulk the everloving fuck out of everything, weld patches, and hide it all under fakety chrome and 5" thick foam".

JACU - I've got bonifides. > Goggles Pizzano 02/22/2014 at 19:24

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'Tis the rare Superbird that doesn't have a vinyl roof.

Thunder > Goggles Pizzano 02/24/2014 at 14:17

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Enlightening.

What a kludge.