Kenyon, If you thimk you can save this roof with bondo, then do it. I hav e been building customs most of my life. By customs, I mean cuting up cars, and putting parts from other cars on them, body parts. choping tops, makeing coupes from fourdors, making convertables from coupes, making body pasts from scratch, stuff like that. Needless to say , when you do this kind of stuff, you use LOTS of bondo. Sometimes I just get tired of trying to get the metal on these missmatched parts to fit. Im SURE I've put bondo on thicker than what you are talking about, and as long as the metal is solid, surely yours is or you would not give up, The bondo will probably last forever. Just grind the metal really good. Most of the cars I've done have been in major magazines, winners circles at major car shows,ect, so these cars are NOT junk, They are some of the best. I've seen cars that I did maybe 30 years ago that still look
GOOD. And I know I used too much bondo on them. My daily( almost) driver, has 5 or 6 gallons of bondo on it. Its 10 years old, and still gets in magazines and winners circles. For you guys that hate me for cutting up old cars, I just want to say sorry. But alot of what I build is from cars you have given up on. You would cosider them parts cars at best. Many come from junk yards, so I actualy Save them from the crusher. I also love restored cars, and have restored many cars through the years. I have one restored car right now. I'm just a car nut, but I like creating a car from my own mind, sometimes. I also save ALL of the parts I dont use, and usually sell them pretty cheap, or somtimes GIVE them away, if I think they will help somone fininish there car. I just like to see old cars get fixed up and DRIVEN. I drive my old cars EVERYWARE. I dont even own a trailer. I love to help people with their cars, and think the IML is great, it helps people enjoy their
cars, however they chose to do it.
Frederick Joslin <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a friend who took a Dodge Grand Caravan to a shop for some engine work. He drove the van to the shop, but had to get it towed away a week later and was given a $2000 bill to boot. Then he had to replace the engine for another $3000. He had no real recourse.
I would look into small claims court because getting a lawyer will probably cost more than the damages. Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DR CHALLENGER"
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: The 1955 and the Rhinoceros
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:03:43 +0000
i am sure hagerty will sue
the repair shop to recover their money.
> From:
>> How can the garage charge for totaling the
>> car. Clearly there fault. As for as the
>> window I may be able to come up with one
>> from a 56 4 dr chrysler if that would work.
>> Let me know of list.
> >
>
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