Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

Originally Posted by SDGTP99

Ooh boy I'm so excited! Pops cut the rust out of rear quarter panels, repaired it and painted. Fresh paint looks pretty spiffy!!! All that's left to do it's parking brake shoes, camber and pinstripes.

Fresh paint 2 Fresh paint 2 - Album on Imgur

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Sorry that I have to use imgur links but it's worth checking, for sure.

pops does nice work. rust got ya on both sides too, bummer. so i suppose a major polishing job is about to go down to make it all match better. them rear quarters look way fresher then the rest of it

Replaced the combo switch on the GTP. Been raining a lot, wiper part went bad. Fortunately, I had one.

Ford man I was reading that and felt tempted to share my A/C story. Its so incredibly stupid I would be mad again by the time I wrote it and who needs that. Nobody wants A/C work. Throw car away, buy new.

IF you feel you have to have it. Pick your battles. I am teetering on the fence on that decision. Any aspect of the investment is certainly not worth it for this guy.

A new guy at work said GTPs are rare and pretty fast. Glad he thought it was somebody else's. I find that FWD Grand Prixs carry a value penalty now... like driving one is worse than not having a car at all.

GT still under 190K and running, GTP at 291K and running, Model J just never changes but has had a brake issue for awhile. I can't seem to kill them nor can I bear to scrap them. My car hobby is thoroughly extinguished at this point.

At work, the Model A job is in primer stage, 59 Pontiac interior finally got done, and the F1 is waiting on me. I passed the ten year mark and no vacations yet. Pics of stuff can be found on blog in sig but they all require explanations.

OK, well now I am excited and hopeful. You old timers know how I yo-yo between the thrill of 455 and the agony of L36/67... and how one WOT glasspacks bang/chirp 1-2 shift can wipe off a week of frown with enough permasmirk left over to write posts with wildly contrasting outlooks. Like now. Found an A/C service port kit in stock local then modified a 9/16" open end wrench to fit the octagonal flats of the high side fitting. And now I might get cold air back in both cars. You guys can imagine how that would turn my frown upside down. Yay!

I feel the pain of both of you. My gtp's AC has never worked right. I've replaced almost everything and it still never has worked very well for very long. I just said fugetboutit. If it's over 80 degrees I just don't drive it

Something is always wrong with my car lol! Like IDJ said it makes me smirk just enough to keep it around.

I just bought a 66 impala. California car, body is great interior is not. It runs and drives and it mostly all there. PO's of this car hacked the wiring bad. Added a brake assist for trailering. It has a tow package to!

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washed and buffed the new girl. went to the track fri night, ran a 11.7 @ 188.97 mph.

Dadgum, SD thats pretty bad fast! Heap big miles per hour, lots to think about at that speed I bet. The worry part is overwith pretty quick though. You don't gotta call it new anymore.

A new guy at the shop has a "new" Camaro, six with auto. Makes sure everybody hears it three gears away. Says he is putting a Duramax in it. Parks in my spot and is yellow with tan wheels and a decal over half the windshield. I marvel how new guys always have the most expensive cars. Rest of us nurse junk. I do remember what its like to have something to prove.

The GTP been wearing a bypass pulley a year or more. AC spoiled me while it worked. Never had AC or efi til '09. It ain't so bad but I am gonna try getting the GT's to work first.

Drove a 67 Imp 4DHT 283/PG through college. Bought it with 64K on it. Ran like it was towing all the time lol.

Don't know which old Ford I'm working on this week but looking forward to four days off. Probably still won't wash my rides, the shade tree has been gone long enough I said fuggitt, paint jobs are all toast anyhow. And I'll hit the double nickel this week so I've nothing left to prove with shiny junk. Off I go, high ho.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

Dadgum, SD thats pretty bad fast! Heap big miles per hour, lots to think about at that speed I bet. The worry part is overwith pretty quick though. You don't gotta call it new anymore..

ive had it for like 2 years now. and its still like i just got it, being how little i drive it. ive put a whole 3,000 miles on it so far. and its got a boat load of new paint on it from that damn pesky crash i has last year lol

body shop was a nightmare, they sucked bad, took em 3 months to get it to where i was happy. while they had it the hood roof and truck ended up full of swirls, rest is all new paint, being they kept doing crappy work over and over thought they might buff out them parts, but noooooooooo. so i finally started having weekends off and took the hottest day possible to wash polish it lol

during the race, im not thinking much but faster damn it! faster !!! as im watching the speed o. (has a hud) installed a two step, this was its first time using at the track. cars never launched so damn hard in its life. 2 and 3 ****s are out right nasty feeling, in a good way......

When I first read your timeslip post, something didn't sound right... then looked at the slip pic and ah, OK. Typo. But now you see where my comment came from. Ha! Good one, 188 mph. I must have missed the paint work episode. It was a good day for sanding but did not pick up a block, all DA sander. Tomorrow, ugh. Thought about each GP today, only used one and did nothing for it, only to it and all it did was whine.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

When I first read your timeslip post, something didn't sound right... then looked at the slip pic and ah, OK. Typo. But now you see where my comment came from. Ha! Good one, 188 mph. I must have missed the paint work episode. It was a good day for sanding but did not pick up a block, all DA sander. Tomorrow, ugh. Thought about each GP today, only used one and did nothing for it, only to it and all it did was whine.

wow thats one hell of a typo lol 118 mph.

paint show. these clowns sucked at painting, or maybe they cant not touch it. suck at gaps, suck at putting bumpers back on as they chipped the paint on the fender putting it on. sucked with clear over spray on my glass mirrors back up cam. dents in the clear coat, fish eyes all over. im like up to 3 ppl knew this was wrong, yet here i am showing you for the first time..... then they put 3 huge chips in the door from opening it into ****. didnt change bent suspension parts that i had to point out to them, 3 months of BS. like i was ready to sue em. and made sure they knew it.


crashed.


finally happy

Well dang, thats too bad. Never been a body shop customer myself but know how it is because people come and go and a boss man has to keep employees and thats kinda like presidents... choices suck but you're stuck with them. This year's internet is full of complaints about nobody wanting to work.

I have same kind of story about my nearby trans shop. First two jobs were good and good. Third one was a piss poor experience. Reality is a muffhugger. An other forum dude put his Monza drag car into the wall over the weekend. No idea yet what went wrong but looked about like your ride. They yelled at him for just driving off down track without stopping to look.

I've not had to work on a new Camaro but have heard they aren't exactly a dream to work on. Paint work is a very approximate and unforgiving science that people tend to take for granted. But customer expectations must be met and sometimes the shop gets hosed because it doesn't always go perfect. I feel sorry for crash guys now more than ever.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

Well dang, thats too bad. Never been a body shop customer myself but know how it is because people come and go and a boss man has to keep employees and thats kinda like presidents... choices suck but you're stuck with them. This year's internet is full of complaints about nobody wanting to work.

I have same kind of story about my nearby trans shop. First two jobs were good and good. Third one was a piss poor experience. Reality is a muffhugger. An other forum dude put his Monza drag car into the wall over the weekend. No idea yet what went wrong but looked about like your ride. They yelled at him for just driving off down track without stopping to look.

I've not had to work on a new Camaro but have heard they aren't exactly a dream to work on. Paint work is a very approximate and unforgiving science that people tend to take for granted. But customer expectations must be met and sometimes the shop gets hosed because it doesn't always go perfect. I feel sorry for crash guys now more than ever.

crash was getting on the hwy. i hit a guard rail. my paint is pretty much a candy job too. so that dont help. they repainted the front bumper like 3 times, the back bumper two times. my drivers door 3 times. front pass fender they blended it. said they didnt but there was a dent in the clear. aka tucked wet, then just sanded like ahh fuk it. so repainted, then they must have baked it with tape on it still and took off all the paint in the inner lip of the fender, so re painted again. then all the fish eyes on all their work.

he cursed me out told me hes sick of me and my car and to get the fuk off his lot and dont come back, he ran inside and locked the door. so instead of killing him, i took the high road and said fuk me huh? well watch this. i spent the weekend typing up the chain of events with dates and what went down, sent it off to the licensing division of NJ. they got back with me same day, and went over there to have a talk with them. before he went he told me i could sue for 4 times the damage repair cost. so the inspector guy calls me from his shop. im pretty sure he had me on speaker phone, and hes telling me how all the re paint work has been done out of his own pocket. and im like and rightfully so, he ****ed up the paint job over and over. im like i didnt come over there and touch the wet paint. i didnt pull the tape off and rip the paint off the cars 3 times. i didnt align the front end 3 times and do a piss poor job of it. i didnt fail to change suspension parts front and back that i had to find on my own and point out to them.

inspectors like well they are willing to work with ya now. oh im sure they are. im not even sure i want to let them work on it any more. every time they fix something they fuk something else up. i think i might just sue em and take may chances. lol i told him id think about it and get back to them. next day the shops like hey im sorry, drop the car off and we'll get it all finished up for ya. and i got to say there still a few areas im not 100% happy with, but at some point you just need to cut your losses.

then after all that they still had dash leather parts to change cause they cleaned it with god knows what and it left run stains in the leather. so they tell me we ordered the dash parts and gave me a copy of the order. i look up the part number and its the whole dash. and it dont even come with what they fuk dup. so off to the local dealership i go vin in hand. and i tell him on the diagram i need part # 31` and 5. he pulls up the dash parts and i point em out. he finds the right ones for my car, gives me the part #'s and i go back to the shop, heres the parts you need. your trying to buy a whole dash......and i walked out. few weeks later the parts showed up.

fvcking nightmare. sorry for the long as read/rant. im re living it as i type lol