| GregWeld |
06-05-2017 08:15 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketzer
(Post 660029)
Jeezus. Not again. Sorry GW.
A friend of mine was discussing hotrod stuff with me the other day and asked if I had been by so-and-so "shop"... I had never heard of them. He asked about three or four other "shops" in my area... Never heard of them either. He said they were all full of cars, projects in various stages of build. None getting finished.
I really don't see how people survive trying to get their dream car built.
Jeff-
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If left long enough and enough money spent -- they'd turn out an award winning build. The shop has turned out some stellar builds.... I have no idea what those cost - but high end show winners are routinely costing north of half a million bucks these days -- and I personally know people with MILLION dollar builds.... That is not what I was trying to build with this truck.... I've repeated that statement about half a million times... maybe I'm getting charged a dollar for each time I say that??? LOL
The real points are -- When my stuff goes in to the shop -- it needs to be worked on until it's finished. In their defense - it sat for almost a year during my battle with cancer.... but the truck hasn't made any real progress for a long time.... and I had asked if it could get finished by a certain date... A "maybe" was the wrong response... and a "for sure it would have to come back to be finished" was an even worse response. I've been that route - not doing it EVER again. That whole paying double time only to pay double time for do-overs is not happening to anything I'm building.
REGARDING THE DUST COLLECTORS......
I once wanted to have a 56 Nomad built by a southern California shop.... so I made an appointment to have a serious discussion... and after a tour of the shop - and seeing piles of parts strewn all over and under the cars -- bondo dust a 1/8th thick on most of them.... (I'd already made up my mind this guy couldn't build a car if he tried).... I asked the owner.... Have you ever finished a car? LOL Yeah -- no.... was what he should have answered. He folded a year or so later.
You MUST look around these shops and look for telltales for how your parts are being handled... and how much dust is on "new" parts.... etc. Are there parts just randomly strewn about? Is your trim just piled somewhere in a box or sticking out of a barrel? YEAH -- RUN.....
However -- neatness can also imply -- NOT WORKING ON ANYTHING... but the cleanest shop I've ever been in - has turned out some f'n amazing builds -- Jesse Greenings shop. It was white painted floors - and as spotless as a hospital operating room! So it can go either way. |
