What a journey, but the Charger is looking good. I‘d stick with the green go, it‘s such a pleasure to spot a big muscle car in an high impact color. Keep it up!
Man, I know exactly how you feel, if you look on my TH-cam, I have a video on my 74 gremlin that after 2 1/2 years and lie after lie, the so-called body guy screwed me out of $3200. I got my car back completely rusted over from him, keeping it outside here in the south Florida elements. He too threatend to put a lien on my car, etc. So I feel your pain, I’m glad you got your car back and I would paint it back to its factory green color.
Dealing with body guys is a nightmare. What happened to you happens all the time, thankfully you recovered your car with all the body work finished and in good condition. A lot of people end up with a car that was just taken apart with little to no work done on it, and bills that sometimes total into the tens of thousands.
It was not a fun experience and the last minute trip to get the car was mainly because I was worried this was his thing. Taking in cars and waiting out customers until they give up or lose interest and he keeps the cars or turns around and sells them.
All the "black spray paint" you are referring too is epoxy primer, that's the normal procedure when a car has been media blasted, and the metal work that was done looked good, and as far as welding,yes you will burn through periodically when welding in patch panels,as for the gray primer,that is high build primer, body work is done over the top of the epoxy primer,then several coats of high build primer, final body work and fit looks pretty good, I hav done a few restorations in my time, mostly Mustang's, Falcon's and Comet's, and I think people need to think about the work that is done in a restoration, there are probably a hundred hours in just block sanding and priming,then 30-50 hours in panel fitment, door's,trunk, not to mention panel replacement, that full quarter panel replacement on the passenger side was probably 40 hour's, you just don't throw a quarter panel up and start welding, looks good from my screen, gonna be nice if finished properly 👍
This all makes sense. Why would anyone spray epoxy primer on chrome bummers? To be fair it was a multitude of concerns and frustrations with this guy. 3 years of holding the car, a total of 15 pictures sent of the repairs.
cant say for sure without being in person but agreed with other commenter that the body work looks pretty good from here across the internet. May not have any worries. An original GreenGo HIP car is hot sh.t...keep it original esp since it looks like the trim tag is still there. 71-72 b-body is my fav muscle car so this will be great once it's done
Sucks that guy was unprofessional like that. However you now have a running decent looking Charger. Hard to put a price on yr dream car though. As far as the color, only you can truly choose your dream cars color. As long as it's True Blue lol
It's easier said than done. I think I have a color picked then I think will this color be too loud? should I go with something more reserved? then the next day I change my opinion again.
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What a journey, but the Charger is looking good. I‘d stick with the green go, it‘s such a pleasure to spot a big muscle car in an high impact color. Keep it up!
leaning towards green, it seems to be the color everyone is saying.
Man, I know exactly how you feel, if you look on my TH-cam, I have a video on my 74 gremlin that after 2 1/2 years and lie after lie, the so-called body guy screwed me out of $3200. I got my car back completely rusted over from him, keeping it outside here in the south Florida elements. He too threatend to put a lien on my car, etc. So I feel your pain, I’m glad you got your car back and I would paint it back to its factory green color.
crazy how one wrong person can take all the joy and excitement out of a build.
Dealing with body guys is a nightmare. What happened to you happens all the time, thankfully you recovered your car with all the body work finished and in good condition. A lot of people end up with a car that was just taken apart with little to no work done on it, and bills that sometimes total into the tens of thousands.
It was not a fun experience and the last minute trip to get the car was mainly because I was worried this was his thing. Taking in cars and waiting out customers until they give up or lose interest and he keeps the cars or turns around and sells them.
All the "black spray paint" you are referring too is epoxy primer, that's the normal procedure when a car has been media blasted, and the metal work that was done looked good, and as far as welding,yes you will burn through periodically when welding in patch panels,as for the gray primer,that is high build primer, body work is done over the top of the epoxy primer,then several coats of high build primer, final body work and fit looks pretty good, I hav done a few restorations in my time, mostly Mustang's, Falcon's and Comet's, and I think people need to think about the work that is done in a restoration, there are probably a hundred hours in just block sanding and priming,then 30-50 hours in panel fitment, door's,trunk, not to mention panel replacement, that full quarter panel replacement on the passenger side was probably 40 hour's, you just don't throw a quarter panel up and start welding, looks good from my screen, gonna be nice if finished properly 👍
This all makes sense. Why would anyone spray epoxy primer on chrome bummers? To be fair it was a multitude of concerns and frustrations with this guy. 3 years of holding the car, a total of 15 pictures sent of the repairs.
cant say for sure without being in person but agreed with other commenter that the body work looks pretty good from here across the internet. May not have any worries. An original GreenGo HIP car is hot sh.t...keep it original esp since it looks like the trim tag is still there. 71-72 b-body is my fav muscle car so this will be great once it's done
Just double checked, the tag is present on the inner front fender and just decoded it again and FJ6 is Green Go.
To be honest that metal work and body looks good
I hope so, currently being prepped and made ready for paint.
Sucks that guy was unprofessional like that. However you now have a running decent looking Charger. Hard to put a price on yr dream car though. As far as the color, only you can truly choose your dream cars color. As long as it's True Blue lol
It's easier said than done. I think I have a color picked then I think will this color be too loud? should I go with something more reserved? then the next day I change my opinion again.
To bad you have to take it apart again
hopefully not all of it. We will see as we inspect the car now.