Another former customer...

[restoman]

I did this back around '04. One of those "It's all ready for paint, just needs final sanding and sprayed" jobs...
Not quite.
A couple hundred hours later and it came out like this.
I also did the '60 Camino in the background for the same guy. Both cars have won a couple Best Paint awards over the years.



I did NOT do the trailer!
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars...le/1172025721?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

 

[Not A Duster]

Nice Job on the trailer. Did you paint that pseudo front end by hand? [smilie=i:

 

[68R/T]

Nice Job on the trailer.

I did NOT do the trailer!

:doh:

 

[Not A Duster]

Yeah.... I saw that.

Just being a bastard......

 

[restoman]

Yeah.... I saw that.

Just being a bastard......

A year or two after I finished the Acadian, he showed up at the shop with the trailer... it's been re-painted since but WOW, it was bloody horrible!
Apparently I charged him too much to do the car so he got someone else to build the trailer out of the parts car I made him buy to fix the 'Cadian... that was ok, as I wouldn't have done it anyway. He knew that, I'm sure, but that was the excuse he gave...

 

[69.5CUDA]

the trailer would be ALOT cooler if it was done "right"..and if he had a parts car im certain doing it right was easily an option

 

[restoman]

The parts car was rough. The front fenders and deck lid ended up on the Acadian, along with a lot of the front inner structure and misc. parts.
Those rear quarters on the trailer are packed chock full o' mud...

 

[69.5CUDA]

at the very least grafting in the grill and the surrounding metal from the "bad" stuff would have gone miles to making it look really nice..mud or not

 

[restoman]

Agreed. The parts car was a Chevy II, so the grill was different and pretty beat, but anything would have bee better than what it there...

The $28,000 asking price is...um... just a little​ high.

 

[68R/T]

That's gotta be an extremely rare car. I doubt if there's another one of those 4 cylinder engines that has survived this long. :doh:

 

[restoman]

That's gotta be an extremely rare car. I doubt if there's another one of those 4 cylinder engines that has survived this long. :doh:

I figured you would say that...

It's no powerhouse, that's for sure!

 

[68R/T]

Most of them blew up and were dealer swapped to 6 cylinders within the first couple years. :doh:

 

[TheIronSausage]

28 large or not, it must've sold.. The link is dead

 

[restoman]

28 large or not, it must've sold.. The link is dead

it's been re-listed, at a reduced price.
The El Camino in the background left today for the US... $26,000 is the number I heard.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars...ed/1172760456?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true