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Originally Posted by Vegas69
It sounds great until a car goes off the track ahead of you and you go through a cloud of rocks.
Maybe the owner has deep pockets and doesn't care. Kudos to him!
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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Think about that amount of HOURS ---- there's 2080 hours in a year of working 40 hours a week -- 52 weeks of the year -- no vacation..... So 10,000 hours is 4 guys working on the car non-stop every day all day long for a year.
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Originally Posted by Che70velle
Yeah...then multiply the number of hours X an average shops hourly labor charge. Wow.
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Originally Posted by rustomatic
That year was supposedly nine months, so pay more in less time, for probably more than four guys/subs. We knew in advance that Vicious was a seven-figure car, so yeah, the person paying can probably handle some errant gravel damage . . . 
It was painful trying to watch the Jay's Garage episode--the builder looked like he was watching somebody key the poor car (while tolerating the host's rambling lack of awareness). Pretty much every significant element of build design/quality/ingenuity/fab skill went unnoticed.  |
The risk of damage is always there, but pretty minimal in autox and non-sanctioned racing where you aren't door-to-door with other cars. We have no doubt that the owner could have the car repaired in the case that anything did happen to it.
We actually haven't thought about the hours in those terms, but it really helps put it in perspective, Greg. There were times in the last month leading up to completion where every worker in the shop was working on something for the build, so the hours added up FAST.