Need help getting my 85 to a good bodyshop!
11-27-15, 04:43 PM
#1
carb whisperer
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Need help getting my 85 to a good bodyshop!
As some of you know, I've been hard at work securing parts for my 85 GSL's exterior resto/mod.
Car has minimal rust, never had any accidental damage, and all glass seals (including the mariah hatch glass) are with the car. The only work besides a good repaint I want done is the installation of fender flares (parts already supplied), and maybe a ducktail spoiler.
My car has been sitting for almost a year to date just waiting it's turn to get into various bodyshops who promise to start the work but never do. It is starting to develop corrosion from just sitting, and things like electrical switches are failing left and right from lack of use. I didn't get to enjoy my car the entire summer and I'm sick of it just wasting away because these people keep pulling other projects ahead of mine, and lying to me about progress.
The car also shows signs of an attempted break in from sometime in the last few weeks of sitting in their lot.
I'm located in the northeast, around Bloomsburg PA. If anyone knows a classic import friendly (and reputable) shop that could take the car in for the winter please let me know.
Some pictures from today:
Here you can see the drivers side window scratched up from someone trying to jimmy the door.
Car has minimal rust, never had any accidental damage, and all glass seals (including the mariah hatch glass) are with the car. The only work besides a good repaint I want done is the installation of fender flares (parts already supplied), and maybe a ducktail spoiler.
My car has been sitting for almost a year to date just waiting it's turn to get into various bodyshops who promise to start the work but never do. It is starting to develop corrosion from just sitting, and things like electrical switches are failing left and right from lack of use. I didn't get to enjoy my car the entire summer and I'm sick of it just wasting away because these people keep pulling other projects ahead of mine, and lying to me about progress.
The car also shows signs of an attempted break in from sometime in the last few weeks of sitting in their lot.
I'm located in the northeast, around Bloomsburg PA. If anyone knows a classic import friendly (and reputable) shop that could take the car in for the winter please let me know.
Some pictures from today:
Here you can see the drivers side window scratched up from someone trying to jimmy the door.
Last edited by wankel=awesome; 11-27-15 at 06:47 PM.
11-27-15, 11:19 PM
#3
84SE-EGI helpy-helperton
Sure sign of a slim-Jim used to grab the lock bar from the window channel. Get it out of there.
Finding a reputable shop should jot be that difficult. I recommend getting in touch with ANY of the local clubs near you and ask them who they use. I'm in a LandCruiser club and they have many contacts I never would have found which will work on rX7s too.
Finding a reputable shop should jot be that difficult. I recommend getting in touch with ANY of the local clubs near you and ask them who they use. I'm in a LandCruiser club and they have many contacts I never would have found which will work on rX7s too.
11-28-15, 10:55 AM
#4
I would get my car out of it's current shop ASAP. Any shop that can not guarantee the safety of my car would not get my business. I would also not put up with a shop storing my car not know when it would be worked on. I would at least keep the car at your house until the shop is ready.
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