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Old 01-09-2023, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by MasterAnubis View Post
I'm not qualified to judge the paint. But I do like how it came out. I kept screaming inside "Stop touching it"!

He did say it was 350 hours (not man hours). That may or may not be billable hours. But with good products I couldn't venture to say a total. I don't know if $120-$140 per hour would be unheard of.

Now was that 50K in USD or BPS?
350 hours on a Cobra.....let's say a full 8 hour day, if you could get a bodyman or a painter to actually work a solid 8 hour day, that would be 43 days of working on the car, 8 solid hours a day for that time period. Again, sorry, I'm not seeing it here.
Not even billable hours, as I cannot come up with more than 106 hours, which would be complete R&I of the bolt on parts, drivetrain, and interior, strip, prep, and repaint...Even if billed at an unheard of $200 an hour, I'm still coming in at $21,200.....I know high end restoration shops that can't get $200/hr, so the shop in question, sorry, no.



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