High end vs low end. Your garage has the luxury of being pretty assured that there is some nitwit willing to pay $1k for a brake job who will walk in the door

High end vs low end. Your garage has the luxury of being pretty assured that there is some nitwit willing to pay $1k for a brake job who will walk in the door after you leave. The kind of shop that deals in reverse engineering stuff that's no longer available doesn't have that luxury of having a ready supply of those kinds of customers or they wouldn't be reverse engineering stuff.