how could one butcher this valuable t-5 cab

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#31 Post by James Watters »

EricMcKinley wrote:Ron,

As I read this I was thinking exactly the same thing.

I would not be pleased if it was my car you were describing to the forum.
I agree. Why would anyone post pictures of a customers car including license plate and point out how terrible the car is after a restoration.
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#32 Post by Ron LaDow »

And why would any customer ever deal with someone who would do so?
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#33 Post by Martin Bruechle »

Kinda like taking a pic of some guys wife.
"Looks at the lines, oh, just horrible. look at the sagging.
OMG extra filler, just horrible. Mine is almost perfect" :shock:

He just looked and said; "She has great personality, is fun to be around and loves road trips" :D

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#34 Post by Bruce Smith »

I'm late to the discussions but agree with Ron. Is it sorta like when someone uses this forum to crap all over a repair shop/vendor/dealer etc. when they don’t get what they expected? Not at all because here the owner is innocent, probably heartbroken over the whole situation. Did the owner agree to public ridicule when he brought his car in? Give him a break, at least remove the photo of his license plate.
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#35 Post by Thomas Sottile »

why do we spend so much time on such little things, The good doctor built these CARS to be driven. not as Jewlery to be admired and then put back in the draw. stay well Tom

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#36 Post by Jim Liberty »

Well said Tom. .............Jim.

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#37 Post by Dan Epperly »

The Registry Mag has been doing this for years in Marketwatch. I wonder how all those people owning cars at auctions have felt about their filler thickness being plastered across the pages of the magazine?

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#38 Post by Martin Benade »

They may not have liked it much, but those cars were put out in public for inspection. Its a lot different if this was posted online by your mechanic.
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#39 Post by Thomas Sottile »

Thanks Jim for the invitation, but its a long drive for a beer. Stay well Tom

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#40 Post by Dave Erickson »

Ron LaDow wrote:And why would any customer ever deal with someone who would do so?
George, you've made your bed. I hope you like sleeping in it.
Ron, I think you're way over the top here. I don't see George's post as anything other than "can you believe the crap work done by the last shop that worked on this car?" When I worked as a mechanic, it was a daily conversation, and many of the examples we saw were equally bad, and required us to not only fix what was broken, but to fix the previous repairman's horrible work. And I agree with George, how could anyone do such bad work on such a beautiful car.

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#41 Post by Martin Benade »

People in car shops (including mine) typically criticize other people's work, but publicly sharing this was not very polite to the owner
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#42 Post by Emil Wojcik »

If the owner of the car wants to publicly criticize the quality of the shop's work it's perfectly acceptable. It provides a word of caution to another owner who may be considering their services.

It is not acceptable for any other shop or individual to publicly use someone else's car to criticize another shop's work.
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If he is happy going down the road, and another 356 is parked while the owner is worrying about how that bungy on the rear seat isn't original, who wins? My car won't ever be perfect, but the driver don't care. As they used to say "chrome don't get you home", and neither do perfect gaps and date matched wheels. How about we stop giving people shit for imperfect cars and give them a nod for enjoying the same cars we do?

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Kevin Wills wrote:If he is happy going down the road, and another 356 is parked while the owner is worrying about how that bungy on the rear seat isn't original, who wins? My car won't ever be perfect, but the driver don't care. As they used to say "chrome don't get you home", and neither do perfect gaps and date matched wheels. How about we stop giving people shit for imperfect cars and give them a nod for enjoying the same cars we do?
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#45 Post by Martin Benade »

I would have loved for my first 356 to have been as good as this one, it was really bad. Still, I certainly enjoyed it.
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