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what you said makes a lot of sense...may be we can check the members in this forum so that we can all contribute to the design cost and production upfront? just saying...
What for me? For me to make them? Mine will be hand made. I will probably end up having 100-200 hours into it... or more.. I can't sell it for $199 US.... This world is a funny place, after 13 years on the market, if NO ONE has yet to make this COOL rear fuel tank to offer for sale................................. There is a reason....
The R&D, and molds for this would be extremely expensive....... Im sure several companies that are in business of making plastic tanks have come across this photo in the last 13 years.. They are in the actual business... They never made anything similar............... Cost too much, and the average customer only wants to pay $100-$200.... Doesn't add up, they loose money...
The way Roto-Pax does it is about the only way.... They have one design and a few sizes..... "The key", they can sell that same tank, that can be bolted on to 5000 different vehicles. They are not custom for one vehicle like this Super Tenere tank..... Tooling / mold / start up cost for a plastic mold of that complexity might be $500K- $1m from people in the plastic business I know.