Change coming for my challenger

[v8440]

Hi all,

I'm trading my '73 rallye 340 challenger (with an anemic 318 and plenty of work to do to the body) for a paint job and general restoration on my '74 challenger. It may take the guy a year or longer, but it'll have a fresh GOOD silver paint job on it. He's going to paint everything silver that the factory painted whatever original color a car came in. The a/c will be working, all the seals replaced, etc etc. The car will drive better than it did new, and won't have any water leaks or other common stuff you get with older cars. Pictures of progress will occasionally surface.

 

[LAWFISH]

Dont give him the car until its done and you get yours back. truck me on this one.

Dave

 

[v8440]

Well, I probably should have mentioned that it's a good friend of mine, who I've known for years.

 

[LAWFISH]

Well, I probably should have mentioned that it's a good friend of mine, who I've known for years.

Still, get the work done first. But its your car. It all comes down to money and I have seen many friends part ways over $$$.

Hope all goes well.

Dave

 

[Dr.Jass]

Are we talking about the black car?

 

[v8440]

Yes. He is getting the brown car for working on the black one.

 

[thrashingcows]

Factory A4 silver car? And with what color interior?

 

[v8440]

It's not a factory silver car, and the silver I have it painted won't match a factory challenger color. I'm having it painted the color I want. After all, it's a 318 car originally.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Well, I probably should have mentioned that it's a good friend of mine, who I've known for years.

I try to stay out of deals like this with good friends. I've seen too many friends become enemies.

Four of my friends from GA used to do stuff like this all the time with each other. We'll call them D, J, K, and R. It went well for a long time, though for some reason D and K never had any deals between the two of them. By the end, J and R no longer spoke to anyone including each other and R ended up divorced over it. Only D and K still speak to each other. J won't even speak to me anymore, and I was never involved in any of it--all this went down long after I'd left GA, but he was infuriated that I wouldn't take his side in his final blowout with R. How could I? I wasn't even there!

My high-school best friend ended a 17-year friendship after one of his former co-workers took Dave's Challenger to do the paint. The body was nearly mint; all he really had to do was etch, prime, and paint it. After nearly a year and a half, Dave was getting impatient since his friend had barely touched the car., so the guy got pissed and hurriedly did all the work in a weekend. Huge sand scratches, mismatched paint, and buffed-through clear were the result. That's what Dave got for almost $4000 and several months' worth of weekends helping his friend build a shed and a new shop, and doing landscape work. Dave came to find out that for the nearly 4 large supposedly spent on materials, the guy shot the car in cheap-crap Omni paint and Shop Line clear. At retail, that's maybe $400 worth of paint, $500 tops. Dave figured the guy was adding a little for the effort, which minorly pissed him off since he'd done all that other labor, but $3300 markup? These guys stood in each others' weddings.

The best advice I can give you in this situation, is to write down exactly what is expected out of this deal from both parties, including time frames. No title until you get your end of the deal, regardless of whether he takes the car in the meantim. It might sound like you're being a jerk, but at no point in the future will you get the, "No, you said I was getting this, too." It's for the protection of both sides and more importantly, the friendship.