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VooDoo427, please check your e-mail and call me... 765-743-7962if you get the car up this way we can get the body work done for you and paint it. paintjobs right around 300 for paint and supplys depending on the color.. using omni color(ppg's cheap brand)
and we have another garage we can use as a paint booth not real far from alex's
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Well, My father has borrowed one of my relatives Trucks and enclosed trailers to go pick up my baby. I couldn't get away from a few obligations and my dad is just an awesome guy who volunteered to do this for me.Quote:* * * * UPDATE * * * *
He's 200 miles north of where my car is now, and the transmission on our borrowed truck blew out. So there goes my money for the paintjob. I'm going to need to pay for the repairs to my uncle's truck. Now my dad is stranded down there until we get it fixed, good thing he's retired!
On the bright side, the guy who was supposed to be working on my car called last night. He was very apologetic and sorry for the way he had reacted and seemed sincere. I'm still getting my car out of there, though.
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Well I allready payed him for the top-end rebuild... So I'm hoping he atleast did that and only procrastinated the paint and bodywork. If I get down there and find he completely screwed me over, I think I'll take you up on this!tell ya what squid... since you are a "wanna be enlisted/ midshipmen i will make ya a deal you need a place to store it bring it on by my place i have a machine shed and a garage "and another 3 car garage as soon as i pay off all my bills" so now is the question when ya coming this a way ????? I can tear the engine down for ya while you are out at sea puking yur guts out from the waves lol
and a modest fee of $150 for the rebuild of the top end and you pay for parts and machine work "if required" does that sound good for ya? oh when you get here i will need your help moving a 71 shell alex
But it doesn't sound like you have a paintbooth onhand... and I'm hoping all the girl needs is some minor rust repair, a strip, and a spray.
KLASSIK1 (Leo) has said he should have time to do some bodywork for me this summer... but I am still trying to figure out if I want to send my car all the way up into MI.
(No offense, Leo) It will be a pain to get her up there, and a pain to get her back. Ideally I want a shop in or around Indy or Chicago. But price will be an issue, and Leo can probably break me a fair deal.I don't know, I'm quite dazzled and befuddled at the moment. I could let it just be driven as is, but I'd like to just get this body taken care off before it turns into a rust-bucket like every other "decent" body car that enters the midwest's atmosphere.
P.S. If you have a paintshop Alex... you may be my new best friend! Where in IL are you?
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Funny thing is, Jim... my Father tells me that every chance he gets"Don't worry, be happy. A good CPO will save your *** every time."
Jim
. He was a Chief in 'Nam... and never misses a chance to let me know that CPO's run the Navy.It;s pretty much engrained into my head. I wanted to enlist, but my father told me he'd kill me if I did that.
So I geuss I'll "settle" for being one of those snot-nosed Ensigns. -
Well Hello cBolt,
Yes, yes, and yes. The body is in pretty good shape, but the clearcoat (did they use Clearcoat on these?) is flaking off and it needs a new top desperatly.
You are correct, I can leave it as is and enjoy it like that. But I really had my hopes set on just cruising the country during my last summer before my commissioning. I was all set up to hit the drive-ins and car hops and enjoy the summer in style. That's a lot of fun if one's car drives smooth AND looks beautiful.
I'm just anxious to look cool, I suppose. I miss having my pristine 57 Chevy to tool around in... I sold her to buy this babydoll. Figured I could use a car that drove and handled better than my stock inline 6 chevrolet.
And I will be changing my name come commissioning... I was going to use my normal forum name, but it was taken! And in a stroke of sheer midnight-braindead-glee I just threw midshipman in there because I could. I may be stuck with it now, who knows!
And as for selling my car when commissioning comes, I may or may not. I do not want to, but it's a matter of storage. Do I really want her sitting in a lot while I'm gone... do I just loan it to my up-and-coming brother? Or should I just unload it and buy something more practical (READ: junker) that I wont worry about being vandalized or stolen while underway?
Everything is up in the air at this point (including my commission BTW, since it turns out that the accident I had on my way to buy this Monte is still giving me problems... the Doctors just finally diagnosed me with a slight fracture in my Hip thanks to that crazy nut back in November! And I haven't been able to walk without pain much less PT since the collision. And my LT is getting slightly aggitated since I have missed the last two PFA's.)
*EDIT: By the way cBolt, where are you serving? And congrats on your 20, I'm planning on being in for the long haul myself.
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Well I would just slap a cheap paintjob on it... but I dont have the money to go throwing on a cheapo just to tear it off in a few months and start all over.Billie you have every right to be ticked off and to tell you the truth, I probably would have done the same thing if I didn't get any response from the jerk. Busmechanic is right, take the sheriff or one of his deputies with you to avoid any trouble.
If the body is in good enough shape, slap a cheap paint job on it so you can at least enjoy it over the summer or just drive her like she is once you get the motor fixed.
Good luck!
My funds are relatively limited as it is
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Well, it's been awhile since I've posted... but I need some sympathy at the moment and I'm fuming.... so please bare with me.
My purchasing story can be found here , and thats a sad story in and of itself.
Anyway, I first purchased my car back in November... but she had car trouble and I had to leave her with a mechanic 1300 miles from my home. The mechanic and I had an understanding that he would rebuild the top of the engine, so it would run again, and since he would have it all winter... he would strip it down and put a new paintjob on it for me. (I'm terrible at paintwork)
Well, I was supposed to go down to South Carolina and pick my baby up on the First of March... but he called me and asked for more time. So we agreed I would retrieve my 70 Monte on the first of April.
I have been trying to call him for the last 3 weeks, and he has not answered his home number or his work number. His Work number is now the voicemail for some person I've never heard of and I've left 12 messages on his answering machine at home with no answer. So needless to say, I began to feel a little insecure about this situation.
So yesterday, without knowing what else to do (I mean, he suddenly stops talking to me when it comes time to pick up my car! And nobody has heard from or seen him!) so I called the county sherriff down there and asked them to drive by his house (I had his address from mailing him a check for the engine work) and see if he was alive and if my car was there.
Well this did indeed light a fire under his *** and he called me that afternoon SCREAMING obscenities at me over the phone... But what was I supposed to do?! I hadn't had him arrested, I'd just asked to have it checked out so I knew if he had skipped town or was lying in his house dead.
He told me that I can pick my car up on the First at 7pm, and I'd better be there or he's pushing it into the street and abandoning it. I felt a little bad for upsetting him so much, until I began to ask a few questions. Turns out the little ******* kept my car from November until April... and NEVER EVEN TOUCHED IT! He's pissed at me, and he never even did the work he was supposed to do... and now I've lost an entire four months and probably won't have this thing ready to cruise for the summer.
So now, I miss out on my last summer to just drive and cruise... because next year I'll be commissioned and serving with my shipmates onboard a Navy ship. So my baby will be put into storage or sold without me getting to truelly enjoy and/or bond with her.
Does anyone know of a good shop to do paint and minor bodywork in the Midwest? Preferably around Chicago or Indianapolis? I was really aching to cruise the country on my last summer of freedom... and although I can do enginework like a typical weekend warrior, paint and bodywork is beyond me. I always screw it up, and I'd prefer a professional looking job.
Thank you for listening to my rant... maybe I was out of line calling to have him checked up on... but I didn't really know the guy that well and if someone took your car and stopped talking to you, you'd be scared too! Especially when your entire savings are tied up in it.
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This happens ALOT during the changing seasons, especially during the dryer winter times. It is exactly what you described, a "static" shock.
It is basic physics, which I'm not really going to get into, but all you need to do is ground yourself before putting your feet on the ground.
Try touching some metal part of your car before you get out... if this seems to hard to do, I've heard of people rubbing dryer sheets on their carpets/seats or buying some anti-static spray at walmart. All of these things DO work.
Or you can do the expensve route... switch to leather interior. That will solve it too. Cloth interiors on an insulation buffer (READ: Rubber Tires) are the culprit, as you get into and out of the car your clothes rub on the seat and "charge" you... kind of like when you would shuffle your feet on the floor and go touch your little brother when you were a kid.
Hope that helps.
Billie
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I've been cheated by my mechanic...
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Hi Alex!
Well that's a ton of bad news in one sitting, but I think I'm still standing. I knew something was wrong with the brake's when I puleld her out of that trailer....
Yikes...
Well, here's another chapter to my Odyssey:
So last night as I'm cruising along on I-74 from Champaign back towards West Lafayette... my Toronado started to suddenly make this weird clanking noise... it was tied to my speed and I thought something was wrapped around my rear wheel... but I couldn't find it.
So I pulled off to try and find a gas station near Attica, IN and about a mile off the main highway the clanking stopped and i heard "SWOOSH! Fwapa-apa-apa-apa-apa-apa" And I then knew I wasn't driving anywhere...
So, I pulled into the parking lot of the Jehovah's Witnesses' Kingdom Hall... and began to change my tire! Well, that didn't work out, because the chuck for my locking hubcaps was MIA. Fudge! So aa quick call to Triple A, and three hours later I had a tow truck who told me he could tow me anywhere I wanted, for $2 a mile. I was 45 miles from home. Damnit.
Well, I greased the wheels a little, and with a rather big tip, he agreed to drop the car off in my parking spot infront of my apartment on campus. So now, I get to spend the day trying to figure out how to change this tire! WooHoo! I finally got the tire off, and now I'm calling my friends with cars to see who wants to give me a ride to walmart for a tire plug kit...
Isn't Life great!!
I'm still optimistic that all this trouble will lead to me having one FINE [censored] car. Thank you again to Charles, Charlie, and Alex for all the help they are about to give me... these guys are awesome. I wasn't sure who I was going to meet out there, but they were all a friendly bunch and I'm going to really enjoy being a member here.
Alex, I think I'm gonna give you a call when I call in all my loans and figure out how much liquid assets I have on hand to fix the problems you discovered. And I have to say, I was not expecting you to jump in on it last night! You are one of my new best friends!
A quite contented Odyssian,
Billie
P.S. Here are some pics of the car as we took her off the trailer over in Champaign: