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Originally Posted by RodKnock
The cheapest SPF Cobra roller on the Hillbank site is $57,000, but I assume that a base roller (no options) is slightly cheaper. The SPF GT40 roller is $110,000. So, the SPF GT40 roller is roughly 2x the cost of an SPF Cobra roller.
I just don't think the GT40 reproduction is $53,000+ more complex than a Cobra replica. Certainly other replica GT40 companies can reproduce their GT40 copies for roughly half the cost.
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It's also about factory utilization. The overall GT40 is much more complicated to manufacture. It is easy to estimate that building a single GT40 at HiTech takes twice as long as a Cobra. So if you look at factory $, it's roughly equal. (2 Cobras per GT40). Thus the factory loading is equal. That's the simple model. Actual numbers are likely within a small variation of that but not 5x.