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Old 01-20-2019, 09:13 AM
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So you have a TPW...but how long does it take to make the car? A week?
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Your car is on the assembly line about a day and a half. Lots of sub assemblies are made in advance - engine, transmission, doors, etc.l
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Originally Posted by RonC7
Your car is on the assembly line about a day and a half. Lots of sub assemblies are made in advance - engine, transmission, doors, etc.l
That's what I was told also
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It sure doesn’t take them long to crank out the car once the production process begins. A day and a half sounds about right.
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My TPW was 9-14-15. I got a e-mail on 9-18-15 that my car was built. My car was delivered to my dealer on 9-21-15 in Orange Co New York !!!! Total time 1 week !!!


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Originally Posted by wrecker3
My TPW was 9-14-15. I got a e-mail on 9-18-15 that my car was built. My car was delivered to my dealer on 9-21-15 in Orange Co New York !!!! Total time 1 week !!!


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It takes a matter of hours "to make your car."
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Takes them about 1.5-2 days, mine was completed on the day of the TPW.
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I was watching "How it's made : Dream car - Corvette Stingray" last night on the Discovery channel. It takes 3 days for a Corvette Stingray to be build.
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Originally Posted by StrikeEagle1
So you have a TPW...but how long does it take to make the car? A week?
As others have noted here it's not long actually on the assembly line but can be quite a bit more to schedule production as all the appropriate parts have to come together to make assembly possible. With a TPW you should be close with shipping time the real variable that remains.
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Originally Posted by Fogboundturtle
I was watching "How it's made : Dream car - Corvette Stingray" last night on the Discovery channel. It takes 3 days for a Corvette Stingray to be build.
That's probably total time for all the sub-assemblies + putting it all together. I think it's probably the marriage of all the sub-assemblies that takes 1.5 days or so.

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Originally Posted by wrecker3
My TPW was 9-14-15. I got a e-mail on 9-18-15 that my car was built. My car was delivered to my dealer on 9-21-15 in Orange Co New York !!!! Total time 1 week !!!
That's great, probably what everybody hopes for.

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Time to build on the line or to be built and delivered to you?
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Mine was started early afternoon and was started and driven off the line 3:00pm the next day to alignment and water test. I know because I was following it as it was being built.

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