I see the Associated Press is reporting that the Karmann folks are going to furlough 1800 workers because of a downturn in orders from VW, M-B, and Audi. According to the report, that is about 25% of their workforce. I have a solution....

.......get Hans and Franz to get the tools and dies out from behind the warehouse and start tooling up and stamping out a run of 914 "bodies in white", say 10,000.

you are always thinking. What a FABULOUS idea!

At the right price they would sell like hotcakes.

Oh, and while they're at it............ tell them to use somekindazincgalvanizedsteeltreatment for the love of Pete er, Klaus.

Do the tools/dies/whatever to stamp out bodies still exist? Or were they destroyed?

When Porsche did the Thyssen galvanized process back in 1977 model year, it was a big deal because Porsche was such a small company and it involved retooling everything, from what I remember.

They could make them faster.