posted 07-17-2022 11:53 AM                  

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Originally posted by cdeluca99:
Fortunately I have been friends with this guy since I am 13. I’m 43 now so we are very good friends.

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I sincerely hope that your friendship remains intact when all is said and done.

The relationship I have at the shop my Van is being worked on has deteriorated some in the past eighteen months.
When it went in, my expectation was six months max and under 10K.
I am way over that mark just in mechanical work and the body and paint work may come close to that too.
Best case scenario now is to actually get it back in one piece and running, hopefully by the end of the year.

posted 07-26-2022 03:02 PM                  

When I bought my Corvair Greenbrier van back in December 2020, I was excited and anxious to get it on the road reliable and presentable sooner than later.

With this in mind, I elected to farm out the work rather than take on the project myself.

My expectation was to have it completed and on the road before the West Virginia event in September 2021.

Once the mechanical work was done, getting it scheduled into the body shop was looking doubtful but eventually it got there AFTER I stripped it to bare metal myself since that was the only way the body man / painter would accept the job and stand behind his work.

My next expectation was to have it completed before the July 2022 Carlisle event.

Stripping the paint took longer than I anticipated since I did 90% of the work myself. I started in early April 2022 and finished by mid June 2022.

The van has been in the body shop for about six or seven weeks now and MAYBE could see paint this week but I am not holding my breath.

My expectation now is simply that someday I actually get the van back. The initial budget I had for it has long since been exceeded and will be close to double what I anticipated.

The time line has been triple what I expected and I can only hope that after all this, I will be happy enough with the finished product that it justifies the cost and aggravation.

As times, I have been ready to pull the van out of the shop and take it somewhere else but it would be difficult to find someone willing to take on something that is halfway done.

The other thing is if there were issues, the finger pointing would begin saying the other shop made the errors bla bla bla...

Rather than piss off the shop owners, I have elected to be patient but am also doubtful they will get another big job from me.

When it is all said and done, the opinion I have of the initial shop will have suffered. So far the body shop is doing OK, slow but steady so I again am trying to be patient and understanding.

I have been paying the shops during the process so they can pay their expenses for parts and labor but wonder if they would get upset if it took me as long to finish paying them as it did for the work to get done, especially if I managed to get the vehicle back before the final payment has been rendered.

posted 08-01-2022 09:11 AM                  

Would be nice to see it next to the High Boy of Steve in one of the POA events.

posted 08-02-2022 06:54 PM                  

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posted 08-03-2022 12:03 AM                  

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Originally posted by WildCat:
Maybe I need to relinquish my WildCat title to you…… LOL

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posted 08-03-2022 01:23 PM                  

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Originally posted by cdeluca99:
This one’s definitely going to be a Wildcat too!! I can’t wait to see your paint in person one day. I really think pictures really do it no justice.

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Chris with 39,000+ miles on the paint job it has held up well but not what it use to be, but each scar is history and shows it has been driven

posted 08-07-2022 05:38 AM                  

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Originally posted by Landscape Doctor:
WOW,,, not sure what you did or said but finnaly moving along nicely. Looks like they are mudding in the seam to make it seamless,, interesting.

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