conlyn
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As the few who have come into contact with my typhoon #1985 know, it had horrible rust above the back window and in a few other places, including under the front fenders, which was to the point the cladding needed to get taped on after a while.
Back near the end of july, thinking it be better to spend 200$ on a set of fenders then 300$ for a single new fender arch, i bought a set of fenders off of ebay, and they were volunteered to be to be installed by a 'friend' of mine who'se parents own a body shop. Where after he got it there he decided to walk around it tapping on the rust with the screw driver and convinced me (and i guess himself) that it would be a good time to clean up and bondo over the back window (i still plan on getting another whole body at one time, so the bondo was only supposed to be a fix for the next year or two) along with other various parts that had problems, just to put another coat of white paint on it and have it back together for the the once 'upcomming' GAST meet.
Flash forward two months, i went over there for the first time in about a month (just recently had my appendix removed, so was out of commision for a while) two nights ago to find out his dad had gotten pissed at his son and pushed my truck out of "HIS SHOP" exposed with half finished bondo and bare-metal exposed, pretty much at this point i decided to just finally say screw it, 2 months of "it'll be done in 2-3 days max" take my truck bad into my possision and now i'm looking at having to borrow atleast 1k-3k to have a body shop finish less then half done work and repaint and assemble my once beautiful truck.
Had i had any idea on the kind of shit i was going to end up going through, i would have put the freaking fenders on by my self and left the back rusting away for the time being...
i am in awe as to how bad i managed to get myself screwed over. I have all intents of suing them in small claims court, but this is my only vechile and i don't even have a daily driver so i'm in a really tight situation, so i'm looking for the community to maybe help me find a shop/guy that will work with me so i can actally keep my truck.
I live in Northern cerntal florida, a bit out side of gainesville, but i'm going to try and get ahold of a car hauler from my previous employer, so if you personally know anyone that you know would work with me, my grandmother has already said she would help me out on the cost (borrowed 2k from her to buy the truck in part, so i feel horrible doing it again even if i did already pay her what i owed)
i'm going to have some pictures up tonight or tommaro (for court and estimates), but don't laugh too much, i feel horrible for letting it happen to a syty. Hood, if this keeps going further and further down hill, you can tell Scott he can come and pick his truck back up, i love these enough that i'd rather GIVE it to someone who can afford to have it done right then let it sit in my yard and rott more then it already has.
Back near the end of july, thinking it be better to spend 200$ on a set of fenders then 300$ for a single new fender arch, i bought a set of fenders off of ebay, and they were volunteered to be to be installed by a 'friend' of mine who'se parents own a body shop. Where after he got it there he decided to walk around it tapping on the rust with the screw driver and convinced me (and i guess himself) that it would be a good time to clean up and bondo over the back window (i still plan on getting another whole body at one time, so the bondo was only supposed to be a fix for the next year or two) along with other various parts that had problems, just to put another coat of white paint on it and have it back together for the the once 'upcomming' GAST meet.
Flash forward two months, i went over there for the first time in about a month (just recently had my appendix removed, so was out of commision for a while) two nights ago to find out his dad had gotten pissed at his son and pushed my truck out of "HIS SHOP" exposed with half finished bondo and bare-metal exposed, pretty much at this point i decided to just finally say screw it, 2 months of "it'll be done in 2-3 days max" take my truck bad into my possision and now i'm looking at having to borrow atleast 1k-3k to have a body shop finish less then half done work and repaint and assemble my once beautiful truck.
Had i had any idea on the kind of shit i was going to end up going through, i would have put the freaking fenders on by my self and left the back rusting away for the time being...
i am in awe as to how bad i managed to get myself screwed over. I have all intents of suing them in small claims court, but this is my only vechile and i don't even have a daily driver so i'm in a really tight situation, so i'm looking for the community to maybe help me find a shop/guy that will work with me so i can actally keep my truck.
I live in Northern cerntal florida, a bit out side of gainesville, but i'm going to try and get ahold of a car hauler from my previous employer, so if you personally know anyone that you know would work with me, my grandmother has already said she would help me out on the cost (borrowed 2k from her to buy the truck in part, so i feel horrible doing it again even if i did already pay her what i owed)
i'm going to have some pictures up tonight or tommaro (for court and estimates), but don't laugh too much, i feel horrible for letting it happen to a syty. Hood, if this keeps going further and further down hill, you can tell Scott he can come and pick his truck back up, i love these enough that i'd rather GIVE it to someone who can afford to have it done right then let it sit in my yard and rott more then it already has.