toffee Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 There are or were a number of vendors for GTO body kits, are they still around? Which one is the best or most popular? Any pros and cons to different kits? Thanks for helping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boy from Oz Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 (edited) Look up the 'FAQ' - 'Body Kits and Paint' - '250 GTO Owners' thread. I think ThunderRanch and Reaction Research are the only two available now. Edited November 27, 2012 by Boy from Oz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedRacer Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Old post so just an FYI but it looks like a company called Carrera CoachWerks in El Cajon, CA 92020 purchased Thunder Ranch back in July of 2012. http://www.carreracoachwerks.com/ I don't know anything about them even though they use a lot of pictures of my car on their web site. http://www.carreracoachwerks.com/250-gto/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTO570z Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Where can I get more info in thunder ranch gto? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Washington Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Thunder Ranch was indeed sold to Carerra. Carerra was forced (apparently by Porsche) to change names to http://www.customcoachwerks.com. However, I understand that they've recently gone through some sort of split. The main shop guy (Ben Stoddard, VERY talented) went to Utah, but is still associated with company principals. I have emailed Ben a couple of times to check their progress, but have yet to hear back from him. Just by coincidence, I happened to acquire recently a set of tooling to build the Alpha One GTO replica. And of course, the Velo Rossa can be built as a coupe, with a couple of different configurations of rear hatch/spoiler. Hey, SpeedRacer...is that Dick Goodman? What have you been up to? www.ZTrix.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedRacer Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) Hey John, Really, really good to hear from you and, yup - it is me all right. Glad to see that you are still in and growing the business. I am also very glad that you have the tooling for the Alpha One GTO kit as I was afraid the kit was going to disappear. With that in mind you might want to check out the FAQs/Body Kits & Paint section here under the 250 GTO Owners thread as there was a guy looking to buy a kit and we suggested he contact you. http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/50042-250-gto-owners-thread/ The car has been running good so I have just been taking it to a few shows and cruise nights. Peter from Australia (Boy from OZ) was here last year and drove it. BTW, if you ever run across an incomplete 250 California Spyder kit please let me know. Take care and stay in touch. Edited April 20, 2014 by SpeedRacer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Washington Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Thx, Dick! Last time I talked to Mike Renucci, he had an old basket case 250GT in the back lot. You might contact him. Or maybe you should build one of my new kits: www.fb.com/zgtcar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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