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If you manufacture a product that has no buyers, you lose money on each unit. If he did make thousands, he would simply lose less money per unit. It doesn't matter how cheaply you manufacture a widget if you have no buyers, all you do is turn money into a useless inventory of unsellable widgets.
"So the reason he couldn't sell 300 originals had little to do with peoples desire for one, did it?"
People's desire for it WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE AND SELL THEM is what was important, not how much people would desire them a decade or two later.
Shelby started making his own replicas after a bunch of other people capatalized on an unforseen (in the 60's) market, decades later when the market price for replicas became high enough to justify manufacturing more of them. If anybody knew how valuable musclecars would become by the 80's, everybody would have stored wherehouses full of convertable hemicudas, ZL-1 camaros, etc. back in the late 60's, nobody did.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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