Re: 1 of the 3 Raspberry Typhoons (#1312) for sale
Re: 1 of the 3 Raspberry Typhoons (#1312) for sale
I am definitely not an expert on these either, But I have been around assembly plants a lot, and have seen how some other specialty cars were made. So this is my educated guess.
I would tend to think that you are correct in that all of the special parts that made the Typhoon different from the Jimmy were installed at PAS. That would mean that all of the non specific parts were probably installed on the GM assembly line, meaning the glass, body electrical system, most of the interior (everything except seats, console, and gauge cluster, maybe door panels) most, if not all, of the chassis, maybe not the powertrain. no cladding. They probably had cheap wheels to roll around on that were replaced at PAS with the Typhoon wheels.
At PAS I would guess they only installed the special interior parts, cladding, graphics, wheels, and maybe the powertrain.
I really doubt they would have pulled the whole interior, and glass, and everything else from the sheet metal to repaint it. In order to repaint a different color, I would think that is what they would to have done.
I just took a quick look at the VIN tag area. You can see around the edges of the tag that the cowl area where the actual VIN tag is riveted is painted raspberry. To paint that, the whole instrument panel, and windshield (and probably VIN tag) would need to be removed from the vehicle.
Things like that are what makes me thing PAS did not do the original paint, as they would have had to strip everything out to the bare sheetmetal body. I bet they probably did paint some of it, such as the cladding, and maybe the grill, but not the body.
Maybe we need to see if John Koss can chime in here on how they were done? He told me he remembered doing the Raspberry vehicles, but I didn't get into specifics with him.
