[crm318]

My car was destroyed in a hail storm in April 2019. Every single square inch of the car was inoperable. A frame up restoration was done with all new sheet metal and refurbished nose. About to receive the car next week. 3 year job.

[spank e]

I was moving away from the coast and made a trade my fishing boat for prep work and paint on my car it needed some rear quarter and hood repair. It was a great deal at the time for me the guy does great restoration type work, but it turned into an 8 year jail sentence. It was always something holding him up. I finally told him I'm coming for it ready or not and he rushed it thru. Pictures are what it looked like when I dropped it off in 2013, were it was a year later and when I picked it up.

[bdk1976]

Originally Posted by HoovDaddy

Junior and senior year in high school co-op I worked at a Ford dealer as a painters helper. With a little knowledge my buddy and I decided after graduation we would paint cars in my dad's garage. I had a '64 442 at the time and I decided to do a wild paint job with all the latest techniques that were shown in the latest issue of Dupont News (1970). This car would sell some paint jobs if it turned out. Dad had a compressor, we had sander, but no polisher, so we had to wet sand and hand rub all the cars. Everything we did was lacquer. In 1970 a gallon of the best Dupont lacquer was about $25 and all the supplies to do an entire car were less than $100. We could do a full job like below in one week. This style was popular back then.

We cruised Woodward Ave. almost every night of the week so with that exposure and word of mouth we had steady summer jobs for 2 years doing custom paint. We made mistakes and thought we screwed up peoples cars really bad sometimes, like painting lacquer over enamel, but you learn how to fix what goes wrong. Then the neighbors killed it, too many noisy cars or maybe the paint fumes. My buddy went to California to do it full time, and I went to College.

The light blue portion of the stripes and the panel painting was Metalflake. The blue faded to Plum Crazy with added flake. The side panel had Imagineering (the thin stripes) and Cob Webbing both done in Plum Crazy. '68 Camaro hood scoops mounted to sheet metal risers. It took 24 double coats of clear lacquer to bury the flake and cob webbing. I sold the car 2 years later for $650 and it hadn't started to crack yet. I still dabble with car builds and paint.

That paint job is killer. Love the first pic - even the background. Check out how flat and manicured the lawns are!

[Verdoro 68]

I guess I got lucky with the shop I used for my car. I asked around my area for a while trying to find the right mix of quality, turn around time and cost and found them by word of mouth. I delivered it stripped to bare metal and disassembled and they turned it around in about 8 weeks. It's not Grand National Roadster Show perfect, but it gets tons of complements and still looks great 10 years later. If I was to change one thing, it would have been to dig in deeper on the paint brand since they used a lower end BASF. Had it back for some touch ups a couple years ago and they turned it around within a couple weeks.

I've had way more of an issue with machine shop jail. It took 2 years to get my last build done. The shop I have my stuff at now is also taking their sweet time.

[yellow1098]

My Car is getting a new engine dropped in and new transmission and also being rewired all new harness at a “recommended” shop. It’s been 7 months! Its started to really annoy me. So this thread is nice to read. I just can’t understand why these guys can’t just get the work done in a timely fashion. How do they make money by pissing everyone off? They always have an excuse! Do they just sit around the shop? it really makes no sense to me

[TedRamAirII]

Easier, money making jobs come in, and are quick to get done and out. Engine and Trans jobs take a lot of time and are a loser, unless that's all they do.

[lucky1]

3 years. Never again.

[OCMDGTO]

Making progress

[OCMDGTO]

More progress. Getting a new quarter panel soon

[OCMDGTO]

Nothing like pulling up to paint jail to see your POS sitting outside with no work done on it the last few weeks

[vertigto]

That's unfortunate. Guessing some quick money/smaller projects somehow jumped ahead of you??

[OCMDGTO]

Exactly that, Vertigo. Small shop & short handed. The part that kills me is the month of nothing being done on it that I could have been driving it or working on other stuff. All part of the game. Makes me wish I had another car so I could always have at least one working.......some day.

[vertigto]

Originally Posted by OCMDGTO

Exactly that, Vertigo. Small shop & short handed. The part that kills me is the month of nothing being done on it that I could have been driving it or working on other stuff. All part of the game. Makes me wish I had another car so I could always have at least one working.......some day.

Frustrating...I'm sure.

[TxSportCoupe]

All panels are painted and it’s coming together fast. Just a few more weeks.


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[Nick72Birdy]

All these projects are looking awesome! I think my ‘72 has been in the shop for a lil over a year but it’s been no biggie cuz it took me 14 months to get my Heads from Butler and Porting done through Wilson.. it’s all waiting at the shop to be opened up =) slowly but SURELY!

[grivera]

Originally Posted by TxSportCoupe

All panels are painted and it’s coming together fast. Just a few more weeks.


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Is that Vintage Air? On the heater hose from head to heater core is the elbow at firewall a VA supplied part? Also, do you have a similar elbow at the nipple on head?

[TxSportCoupe]

Originally Posted by grivera

Is that Vintage Air? On the heater hose from head to heater core is the elbow at firewall a VA supplied part? Also, do you have a similar elbow at the nipple on head?

If I remember correctly we supplied the elbows and the reducer at the water pump. It is the Vintage Air Kit for the Pontiac A-body. Be the first time I’ve ever had A/C in a hotrod. But I wanted the Mrs. to be comfortable enough to want to roll with me so we went all out on heat/sound control, HVAC, Dakotas Digitals because she couldn’t really see the old dash lights glow from the passenger seat and always questioned wether the old T-3s were actually on. LOL! So it’s getting white hot LEDs too. That way Momma is cool, comfortable and assured the lights are on. Then I’ll turn her favorite Pandora station on the banging new stereo, at which point I will pray the good times roll!


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[GTO TEX]

Tell James to hurry up! Get ya an extra heater valve, you'll need it. They aren't very robust and the engine heat kills them.

[OCMDGTO]

Tex I hear more and more guys adding AC/creature comforts to their cars so their wives will ride in them. Maybe these women are on to something

[HWYSTR455]

Originally Posted by crm318

My car was destroyed in a hail storm in April 2019. Every single square inch of the car was inoperable. A frame up restoration was done with all new sheet metal and refurbished nose. About to receive the car next week. 3 year job.

Insurance job? Just wondering. Considering upgrading my insurance is why...

My bird went to a paint guy who does work on the side, was supposed to be 3 mo, but, pneumonia put him in the hospital for almost a month, and he is still not back to 100%. He assured me it will be done in Aug/Sept, fingers crossed.



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