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Originally Posted by Ken Bisconti
To 400TT: 3000 hrs divided by 40 hours a week = 75 weeks of man hours. I don't think so.
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It's close enough to be accurate. What I can't quite remember was how long it took. Was 2 years or just over from memory.
Also two people were working on the car.
If you honestly account for all the hours of researching, shopping, swap meets, running about and working on the Cobra. 3000hrs work were performed on that Cobra. We also tackled a fair bit of body work etc and did a lot of modifications to chassis, body etc. It was built to show standard.
Because the costs were shared, we also had a very accurate spreadsheets of costs. And it was amazing how much money was spent on misc stuff...small stuff.
It was a DRB, but doubt you would know the brand. We also build Cobra's a little differently here in OZ, to how most are built in the US. Lets just say they are a little rough when we get them and we don't buy kits, we buy body/chassis units and then make them do what we want.
A fraction of that time was spent on the next Cobra, a Harrison. We didn't record time spent this time around, but total build time was 15 months. But we knew what we were doing and knew all the shortcuts. And also didn't have all the time wasting involved when you are not confident in what you are doing. It also wasn't detailed to the hilt, actually not detailed at all.
On my GT40 I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on the body and I'm still getting a professional to paint it. And this car as already been painted once.