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You must be living in USA, right? In my country (Poland) you can't build your own car, because it'll never get the road permit

gambiting 1y ago
I'm Polish and of course it's possible, in fact it's very straightforward for one-off vehicles that you don't intend to sell, it just has to have brakes, all required lights and mirrors, there are many hobbyist groups in Poland which build and register their own cars that they then drive in public roads just fine. https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam
- p0w3n3d 1y ago
  I have read a few articles when the EU directive went on in 2013 and they were saying that the homologation process required to achieve registration got so complicated that this is no longer feasible in Poland (some were advertising possibility to do it in Czech republic where the process was relaxed, but this article tells different story). Here's newer one: https://www.farmer.pl/technika-rolnicza/maszyny-rolnicze/historia-i-przyszlosc-sam-ow-papajow-esiokow-i-capkow-czesc-2,134255.html https://www.farmer.pl/technika-rolnicza/maszyny-rolnicze/his... Here's the older one: https://www.auto-swiat.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pojazd-sam-zbudujesz-ale-nie-zarejestrujesz/31ng78e https://www.auto-swiat.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pojazd-sam-... However newer articles do not mention the problem, so maybe it's been somehow reduced.
silverquiet 1y ago
OP said "using a classic car chassis". I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but you can make a lot of modifications to an existing car, but building your own from the ground up would be mostly illegal. I think in some sense, the actual "car" is legally only the VIN plate or something like that. My state stop even doing safety inspections recently, and before that they were already pretty minimal; it was mostly a check that your lights and horn worked and that you had at least one mirror.

gambiting 1y ago

I'm Polish and of course it's possible, in fact it's very straightforward for one-off vehicles that you don't intend to sell, it just has to have brakes, all required lights and mirrors, there are many hobbyist groups in Poland which build and register their own cars that they then drive in public roads just fine. https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam

p0w3n3d 1y ago
I have read a few articles when the EU directive went on in 2013 and they were saying that the homologation process required to achieve registration got so complicated that this is no longer feasible in Poland (some were advertising possibility to do it in Czech republic where the process was relaxed, but this article tells different story). Here's newer one: https://www.farmer.pl/technika-rolnicza/maszyny-rolnicze/historia-i-przyszlosc-sam-ow-papajow-esiokow-i-capkow-czesc-2,134255.html https://www.farmer.pl/technika-rolnicza/maszyny-rolnicze/his... Here's the older one: https://www.auto-swiat.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pojazd-sam-zbudujesz-ale-nie-zarejestrujesz/31ng78e https://www.auto-swiat.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/pojazd-sam-... However newer articles do not mention the problem, so maybe it's been somehow reduced.

silverquiet 1y ago

OP said "using a classic car chassis". I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but you can make a lot of modifications to an existing car, but building your own from the ground up would be mostly illegal. I think in some sense, the actual "car" is legally only the VIN plate or something like that. My state stop even doing safety inspections recently, and before that they were already pretty minimal; it was mostly a check that your lights and horn worked and that you had at least one mirror.