Steve -
There are almost exactly 2,000 working hours in a
year, assuming a 40 hour work week. That means with 3
people, their total billable work load is 6,000 hours
per calender year assuming they work no overtime.
If they do 12 cars per year, that means that each car
is averaging about 500 hours per car.
I am unsure if Tanner is outsourcing his paint work...
if so that may account for the low 500 hour average.
If you throw in some overtime you might be looking at
600 hours, and maybe with a part time college flunkie
sweeping the floors every other day maybe around 700
average per car. If you throw in outsourced paint
work.. you might be heading close to 1000 hours. If
they do the paint in house, then they are making a
mint!
By the way, I've known many people who swear that
healeys are one of the easier cars to make a profit
on... high value cars with relatively low cost
replacement parts & easy dismantling and re building
are the key reasons.
Cheers,
Alan
--- "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg@abrazosdata.com> wrote:
> Well,
> No offense to anyone meant by this, but I suspect
> Tanner's cars are restored
> to an other-than-concours standard--they may be
> better in some
> ways--over-the-top paint jobs come to mind.
> Nevertheless, he's the one who's
> getting the best results in the marketplace.
> "Substantially better than new"
> is how I'd describe the one's I've seen.
>
> We are not his market. His buyers are not Healey
> People per se, but rather
> 65 year old guys who had one in college and now have
> a lot of money, or
> 45-year-olds who's fathers had one when they were
> little. They trust Tanner
> to sell them the right Healey from an investment
> point of view. If I
> understood him correctly some of them get rid of the
> Healeys in a couple of
> years when they move on to other expensive passions.
> They don't drive them
> much, either.
>
> I figured they must have bimbos helping them make
> the decision and the
> creature comforts would be the reason for the
> (incomprehensible-to-me
> :-))success of the BJ8--but he says no question,
> it's the guys who like them
> and not often is the decision driven by the gals.
>
> He does 12+ cars per year with 2-3 guys including
> himself. I'm sure that
> equals less than 1000 hours per year. According to
> him, every car goes to
> bare metal. He says in BJ8s there's enough money to
> make it worth tackling
> fairly moth-eaten examples.
>
> I'm 58 years old and the young guys admiring my
> Healey couldn't care less if
> it's concours, but they know they like it. Just like
> I don't care about
> concours 36 Fords compared to Hot Rod versions of
> same.
>
> --
> Steve Gerow
> Pasadena CA
> 59 BN6
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