Thread: The timesaver coupe

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Jim--------I was being a smart ass about your comment about body/paint work being $100/150 hour-------and then Shine posted about fishing

A lot of your posts are middle of night ----when do you sleep?????

But-------I have 2 33 roadster chassis and bodies here as family projects-one to be a 392 hemi , one a flathead-with paint/interior costs so high I am now building just one of them and am setting it up for a 30 minute swap between the hemi and flathead --will save thousands of dollars

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

A lot of your posts are middle of night ----when do you sleep?????

Jerry I work all kinds of crazy hours. When ever they need me to work I work. Kinda sux but I am grateful to have a job. I'll do enough sleeping when I die. Besides I hear sleep is over rated.

Okay went to go see the 32 yesterday and was excited that it was all together (finally) but was disappointed to find some things wrong. The first and most important is the brake lights are on all the time! He tried telling me it was that way and I told him it was that way. No what I said was that the brakes would leak down during winter storage causing the brake lights to come on. This is why it needed a new battery. Everything on this car worked perfectly before he got his hands on it. The second and also very important is the driver side window doesn't work. He asked me did the windows work on this car? I can't get them to go up or down. I told him there are contacts in the doors and they wont go up or down unless the doors are closed. So he hops in and turns the key and the passenger side works fine. Then he says something about loose wires in the door and he knows whats wrong there. Loose wires? Really? The dome light and the backup camera work fine. Just wondering what he messed up in the process. The third thing: The doors on this car have a slight curve or bow if you will. The door panels butt up to the base of the garnish molding. Now typically this panel would be held in place by the garnish molding sitting on top of it. BUT..this car has the garnish moldings molded into the door so you can't remove them. That's why the panel butts up to it. Now he tells me eventually the center top edge of this panel is gonna sag in and there will be a gap there because the panel is straight and the door is curved. Um...maybe put a couple upholstery clips there to hold it in place? Yeah I could do that. (Ya think??) Then I had him put in an access door for the master cylinder. It came complete with a magnetic popper like the kind found on glass doors on entertainment centers. You push the glass and it pops out at you so you can get your fingers behind it. The popper is long gone and he says you can use your key or finger nail to open it...LOL For $3 at lowes I can get another one but that's not the point here. Lastly; I gave him all the stuff I wanted to "HIDE" in the trunk. A small tool box, bottle jack, tire repair kit, first aid kit, small air compressor, and my car duster. The way he set the battery in there I'm not getting all my stuff in there. I suppose you get what you pay for. I didn't pay for a $6000 interior so I shouldn't expect it. Maybe I'm being too picky? Oh! I almost forgot. No door handles on the inside. He says the door panels are too think and they don't fit so I don't know what you want to do there. Seriously? What I'm gonna do? I told him to call me when it's all fixed. It does look nice though. Maybe I should sell it quick before it all falls apart. Sorry for the long read/rant.