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Originally Posted by R67Chevelle
I do not mean to offend or maybe I need some understanding. I have a 67 chevelle that it appears that I may have the finances again in the next 6 months to completely redo the way I want but time is the issue.
I don't want to wait 1 to 3 years either for someone else to build for me. I could do a complete redo on my chevelle myself in 2-3 years easily (did it back 20 years ago).
Gearhead seems to be a very good company as well as fesler, D&Z and some others. But your car seemed to take an aweful long time for the to finish up. Your prior was just plain redickulous.
As long as things are not too radical is 6-8 months for a project even possible?
You have seemed to have waited for an aweful long time and way exceeded your original budget.
You do however have a great looking car, and it has turned out very nice.
Blessings,
AMS
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No offense taken.
To clarify some details of my saga, I let the first guy have a crack at it (a 1-man operation with experience building fairly simple muscle cars with bolt-on mods). I had problems with progress on the car from the start, and even though some of it was his doing, his subcontractors (fabricator, painter, interior) were pretty much worthless. I am not going to name names - it's a small town and no one on Lateral G even knows these people anyway. But I let things go on and on long enough and finally pulled the car from him in late 2008. I also let it go on too long because I had become friends with the guy, went to SEMA with him, hung out with him and his wife, bla bla bla. My mistake there, but what can ya do.
And, like many guys who get into a project, I kept adding cooler and better parts here and there and extending the budget. I have extended my budget, yes, but only by choice, not because I was given a low bid on work or labor. I have no beef with the guy's pricing - I had a beef with his progress, or lack thereof. I wasn't building a Ridler car here, just a nice street car with mostly bolt-ons and a few new cool parts, or so I thought.
Since taking the car to Gearhead Garage, things have been rolling and progressing to my satisfaction. The only times things have slowed down a little is when they had shows or something to go to and get cars ready for them, which I completely understand. I also slowed the project down at one point a few months ago for financial reasons. The parts and labor management has been pretty good as we have worked together to make sure there have always something to work on with the car and we weren't waiting for parts.
Also, I can't expect to have my car brought in to their large shop and instantly take priority. And of course we have run into a few unanticipated snags here and there, and I have added a couple new minor things here and there, but by and large, things happen on my car every week. My car had no progress for weeks and sometimes months in my previous experience. I get pissed just thinking about it.....
I cannot begin to estimate a timeframe for your build as I do not know what exactly you are looking to do or how much work you have done so far.
I admit the building of a car from pretty much scratch is more work than I had anticipated, but my car should've been able to be built in less than 1 year easily if in the right hands from the start. I don't think anyone will disagree with me on that.
Thanks for the kind words. I love the 66-67 Chevelles... I sold my 66 last year to a guy in the Netherlands!