Here it is--The first of May and after the manager of the body shop started to explain to me how much work was involved in removing all the rust prior to any body work & the major cost involved,I told him to stop all work and I would have someone pick up the car and transport to Corpus Christy for a body dip. A week later, the day before the car was to be rescued by the
business in Corpus, I stopped by the SFB shop to make sure the car was ready to go.Imagine my surprise when I saw that they had gone ahead and started body work, when he was
explicitly told to stop. Had to call the other business and cancel.
Also got a look at the bottom of the car, and saw that the driver floor was butchered and welded in too low (when mounted to frame, floor to frame contact was immenent), and I have no idea why that big hole had to be cut out, just to have a patch welded over it. All of the floor panels were previously riveted in place before the car was taken to the shop. In January he was commisioned to replace the floors, clean and paint the bottom of the car, and paint the firewall. This was so that I could place the body back onto the frame I had just finished working on. As you can see in the second pic, 4-1/2 months later he had still not finished this-The floors on the bottom had not been welded yet AND, the panels in the before the axle, were NEVER welded to the floor supports, there is a 3/4" gap between the support and the floor! This led to other issues I did not discover until I brought the car home.
Here it is---June 1 The car had not been work on hardly at all, At this point he has been paid over 5,000, and has not shown me crapola. He was paid up front as my work schedule had
kept me on the road way too much. And I had never lived in a city that had such unscrupulous business people. He had claimed that his guy had taken a vacation to Mexico and that I would have to wait until his return before any more work was done on the car. I called BS!!
I did not pay his guy--I paid the owner of the business and I told him it was his responsibility to finish the work and return the car to me ASAP. Particularly after he started something that he was NOT to do.
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