Given todays prices with inflation, you'd be hard pressed to do this car, this well, with less than $75K, plus you are probably paying Burt $5K, not to mention that you're getting a near to one-of-kind car.  Add to that, they came up with a good design for appearance and materials, some nice touches, all the sheet metal work, plus a car built by guys who know high performance hot rods, and it adds up quick.  Far north of $100K seems a tad high but not when you consider other car makers out there like Shelby, Roush, Saleen of the Mustang crowd.  They charge $50K to 60K above the cost per car, Shelby sometimes more if he puts his John Han all over the friggin car (which I hate).

Just add up the cost of all these materials, before you start paying people for their work: suspension, brakes, engine, trans, exhaust, fuel, wiring, cooling, accessories, carpet, seats, roll bar, tubs, wheels, tires, custom parts like the gl and dash and console, doors, plus custom front and rear plastic and of course a nice paint job with top end striping.  And you even get to choose from a good collection of power plants, try that at Roush or Shelby!

Having said all that, I'll be extremely surprised if they got this platform to perform well by today's standards.  I had a 78 T/A 6.6 and had several friends and relatives with other variations of this same car so I know its weaknesses.  The mid to late 70's T/A's were not up to modern performance capabilities but any stretch.  So if they got it working well as a platform then they have really done something cool.  In the end I think its a real cool idea, I always wanted to do this myself but didn't have the time, money or expertise.  Nice job Y1.

Do I think the price is too high for me?  Oh Yes.  Do I think the price is too high for what you get?  Probably not.  LS7, DS sub frame, quadralink, coilovers, BAER brakes, interior, the top notch parts list goes on and on.  If you had someone do all the work for you, you might be hard pressed to build this car at under 80K.....IMHO... Anyone ever try to have a custom paint job like this one done?  Depending on your area, that could go north of 15K alone.   And for those of you who think these cars won't handle like today's supercars, you might want to drive one...

first, for 100k you do not get the ban3 with ls7 etc  etc, im in the process of building a "yearone" bandit, its going to cost less then the ban 1, but with a 700hp ls2, full morrison chis, all the good stuff. is year one ripping people off? NO, sure all the bandit parts cost under 80k, even on a ban 3, but a 60,000+ sq facility that has huge overhead would be losing money to pump out these cars for what you could do it for in your garage.open up a facility like year one has and charging even 100 dollars an hour labour would probably not pay your expenses.if you want to have one for "cheap" you can buy some of the parts from them and do what you can in your own shop. this car seems geared towards people with money who want a turn key car right away and thats who it is marketed towards.im having it done locally because i personally couldnt afford the ban 3. but theres hundreds of people out there who can.

i asked for a price and never received one. reading these post i was shocked. i thought mayby 70k range for price. i saw this thing perform on the speed channel and it made me drool. how much for the poor man version?  i love the car but for that you can get a shelby and put a couple of mods on it and come out cheaper, with the same or more power.