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Saw this 71 at the body shop where I'm getting some work done on my 68. The owner owes the shop around 15k and the shop owner put it up on the shipping container so it won't disappear in the night.
Make sure you pay your bill on your '68. Or he may have to double stack them up there.
That would actually be kind of funny. Two convertibles on the same storage container. No worries there though. I've already paid my bill. The car has been taken down since I took the pics. The owner already made arrangements to pay. I don't think the weather here is much of a factor since the car had it's interior removed and stored before it went up on the box.
When I took my 68 off to the body shop, I started seeing some surprisingly high price estimates for work to be done. Naive, I agreed and then I started voluntarily paying them almost weekly with progress payments for the weeks work completed. As I suspected, they had over bid the price of repairs just to protect themselves in case something went wrong. However, as work progressed, there were more defects in the body that required more work than they contemplated. Since I had been voluntarily paying them weekly for progress work...basically the body shop was not funding my repair work, and since they had originally (I think) overbid the work, they began doing some of significant extra work at no extra cost. Pretty honest people...that's the way business should be done in an ideal world.
The car has been taken down since I took the pics. The owner already made arrangements to pay. I don't think the weather here is much of a factor since the car had it's interior removed and stored before it went up on the box.
I guess the shop owner made his point then but I question the harshness of his tactics. As already stated two sides to this story and somewhere in between is the truth.
Probably just a shadow. I've seen the car up close and it looks pretty good.
Would you give me the shops phone # & where it's located. I live in far north Phoenix. I need some work done on my C-1/C-2'S Do yhey do mechanical work also?
THANKS ken
I would not take a car to a shop like that, what a jerk, and the body work does
look like crap. there's always 2 sides to story.
sad
After being into cars well over 30 years I have sadly learned if their are 100 shops in a 100 miles circle chances are one is any good at all and the rest are crap.
I am jaded on the subject.
No amount of overbearing chest thumping ego trips makes a tech a good tech.
Jobs said to be a week or two can become 9 months but it's never the techs fault for dropping the ball over and over.
You can be refused to see your car, work can be skipped, you can be told asking when can I get, see my car is a question you do not deserve an answer to while you are being cussed out, you can be told you can't have your car because other cars are blocking it in...etc ad nauseam.
So when you show me a car that the owner owes 15K and the tech to make some point sticks the unprotected car up on a storage container here is what it says to me after the light chuckle of a silly picture subsides.
Why did a shop go to 15K worth of work with no payments along the way?
Does the shop owner think it's a selling point to stick the customers car up and out in the elements to get damaged and it will get damaged.
Does the shop owner realize that if the car is damaged he is liable?
As law permits the shop owner needed to tuck the car safely away and file a lien not try to turn things into a side show.
Very unprofessinal.
When all is said and done I loose my sympathy for the cheated shop owner when he started doing stupid things to a customers car.
Saw this 71 at the body shop where I'm getting some work done on my 68. The owner owes the shop around 15k and the shop owner put it up on the shipping container so it won't disappear in the night.
I am fortunate that I have body & paint work done for my employer on a regular basis, so I know firsthand when a shop is flakey or straight up. The shop that has my car for complete paint was not my first choice. The shop I wanted will not do complete paint jobs, but the one I picked had plenty of examples for me to see before I pulled the trigger. We agreed that I would pay half up front and the balance upon completion. They started end of January and will finish up this week. I'm very happy with the result.
Would you give me the shops phone # & where it's located. I live in far north Phoenix. I need some work done on my C-1/C-2'S Do yhey do mechanical work also?
THANKS ken
Sure. The number is 480-970-3777. The address is 3002 N. Civic Center Plaza, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Oh and BTW, I found out yesterday that the body man that worked on the car on the storage container is not there any more. Don't know if he was fired or not. As far as I know it's only a body shop and any mechanical work that needs to be done gets sent out.
Sure. The number is 480-970-3777. The address is 3002 N. Civic Center Plaza, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Oh and BTW, I found out yesterday that the body man that worked on the car on the storage container is not there any more. Don't know if he was fired or not. As far as I know it's only a body shop and any mechanical work that needs to be done gets sent out.
05-27-2015, 01:45 PM
This is what happens when you don't pay your bill
