Anybody know if metal shops give free estimates? I can draw the things up in cad if someone's willing to work with me and give me the dimensions of some prototypes they work up. I know alot of shops, that's all they need.
Although I think they look horrendous I can quote making them if you want to draw them... We could make them from mild, stainless or aluminum. I have Inventor and Autocad as well but no time to design them. They actually look pretty basic if the parts were all laser cut and then formed or rolled.
I'm in the great white north in case that matters. We are a fab shop that deals mostly with stainless steel equipment but we do a lot of polished stainless and stuff for architectural work. Mild steel powder coated would be cool too. Aluminum is a ***** to weld light gauge... If you have enough silly people, say 10, that are willing to buy these ugly things then that will save a lot on the cost to make them... we do one offs all the time but making a couple would be cheaper.
Let me know what you think. I think they are totally do able out of steel and $1100 or what that other guy was selling them for seems way high to me.... lets get a drawing together. If you do something rough I can always look at redrawing it a bit to make them easier to manufacture. I just don't have time to measure my car and lay them all out.... especially since there's no way in hell I'd be caught dead with it on my car.... lol..
all in good fun. I'll help if I can.
PS. The side window louvers look like a piece of cake from the cardboard ones you made. Lay them out in Cad, laser cut the flats.... bend up the louvers and weld the ends. There's nothing to complicated about them. The rear looks a lot harder since its all compound angles and curves...