Thread: Enough is Enough ...........

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Go get it, 4 yrs is too long, been there before too. Thats why I stick to doing eveything myself but glass and interior. Awesome Thames though.

I agree it is time to move it, preferably to my house. I love them, they look mean with massive tires. one in town tubbed so much you probably got a foot between tires.

This seems to be the story with a lot of body shops. I think it has something to do with the fumes.

Wow 4 years I have trouble waiting 4 weeks .I'd take some buddy's with me. And call the police before you go. Tell them what's going on let them know that you don't want any trouble. You just want your car back.

Advise taking a camera with you and doing a photo inventory when you load the stuff up....then, if there is a future disagreement as to what you did or didnt take, you have pictures of everything.

This is kind of like moving out on the soon to be ex......may be friendly now, but wait a week or two!

mike

i have seen this many times .it,s one of them deals were every ones ends up bent out of shape no ones wins . there only so much room on the shop floor .guys will take the insurance jobs were parts are not hard to get or get ready for fit finsh to paint .there alot of guys that can hang new tin i did and i was one bad a$$ if i must say so myself your car could have the front end wipe off and it would be painted and back together the next day.not hard to make over 90 hours pay for only 30 hours of work . that s hard to turn down that work. i have worked with many guys that just wanted to paint and hang new tin.good body work takes alot of time and more on a body that as seen some hard years and rust. some shops do good work but bite off more then they can handle. the longer the car sits on the shop floor the more money it eats up . no matter how much you pay. they can make more on the EZ insurance jobs that all the new body parts are a phone call away .the shop will go under if they can not get things moveing off the shop floor .there is some guys that want to make a name and try to give you the best job and put alot more of time and money in to the car then was the starting price of the job was. when done not make a dime on the job .then there playing catch up on the next job . i have seen others shops do nothing right and suck guys dry and he ends up with nothing good and parts missing . i have done cars and trucks from shops like this that did get pull out and i finshed them . a freind and i were on call. were we came in to a shop to make things happen .when someone got in to deep . its a bad deal when car needs to be pulled out of a shop .body guys can be moody ? well some can half done cars will get striped and started over so its all there work coming from there shop. or they can get pissy about you not going to them in the first place .hope you get color on it soon if you were in town could make things happen for you. i still have the numbers for the crew

Everything went fine ........... I took them a list of the parts that had to be accounted for, they agreed with no issues .......... will account for all of the parts and prepare the car for shipment ........... told them I hated to do it but that I had to get the car finished ............. they understood and even seemed a little bit relieved ............. I think they bit off way more than they could chew when they started this ............. these guys are fantastic body and paint people ........... but they are lacking in fabrication skills ............ and this car was too much for them to handle

Sounds great that you guys parted professionally! Post some updates from the new shop as it comes along. Very cool project your building.

Originally Posted by Old Coyote

Everything went fine ........... I took them a list of the parts that had to be accounted for, they agreed with no issues .......... will account for all of the parts and prepare the car for shipment ........... told them I hated to do it but that I had to get the car finished ............. they understood and even seemed a little bit relieved ............. I think they bit off way more than they could chew when they started this ............. these guys are fantastic body and paint people ........... but they are lacking in fabrication skills ............ and this car was too much for them to handle

Coyoye, may I make a suggestion. Check out the Hot Rod shop over in Welcome, NC. They do really good work. Complete builds.

Good, it sounds like it went well. You might want to email the owner with a "question" about something and in it confirm everything you guys verbally agreed to. If they respond to the question and don't refute the other statements you have something in writing showing they pretty much agreed to what you wrote.

(I watch a lot of Judge Judy)

Don

This is a very hard story! I wish you that now everything is going well

Originally Posted by Crazyrat

Coyoye, may I make a suggestion. Check out the Hot Rod shop over in Welcome, NC. They do really good work. Complete builds.

If you're talking about Rod Crafters in Welcome, I can't get the car in there for another year or so ............. Larry has 11 cars in there now ......... found a shop over in Advance that can take it ............ small shop, but their work is impressive

Sorry about naming it wrong, yes, Rod Crafters is the one I was thinking of.

My brother had a car in there for about a year and just got it back. Now I have to retrack my statement about them doing good work after seeing what his looked like. I wasnt impressed at all with the quality of the work they did on his. Trunk lines didnt line up nor did one of the doors. He had to redo one of the tunnel bolts because it was put in crooked.

For what he paid I would have though the car would have been in primer to say the least but it wasnt, still bare metal.:eek

Originally Posted by Crazyrat

Sorry about naming it wrong, yes, Rod Crafters is the one I was thinking of.

My brother had a car in there for about a year and just got it back. Now I have to retrack my statement about them doing good work after seeing what his looked like. I wasnt impressed at all with the quality of the work they did on his. Trunk lines didnt line up nor did one of the doors. He had to redo one of the tunnel bolts because it was put in crooked.

For what he paid I would have though the car would have been in primer to say the least but it wasnt, still bare metal.:eek

I have not been all that impressed with Rod Crafters either ........... but my problem has been more with the attitude rather than the quality of the work ........ every time I have talked to Larry about doing anything on my car, his attitude has been pretty much "I'm not sure I can waste my time with you" ............. I guess my cash isn't the proper color of green for him.

The only problems we've really had building cars all came about when outside shops were involved..........painters, upholsterers, etc. I'm pretty good about spelling out what I want done and the timeframe I am working in, yet they seem to forget those elements once the car is in their shop.

It is SO hard to get people to do what they promise.

Don