Camaro is back and in need of repairs before paint.. The customer kept adding more and more for the other shop to do.. Originally it was going to have vintage air and new wiring harness. Then it turned into pulling the drive train, re working portions of the engine, tranny, disk brakes in the rear, new fuel lines, brake lines, new gas tank, smoothed fire wall, etc etc etc.. My customer figured he would do everything he ever dreamed of.
The downside ( for me, not the car!! ), is they also painted the sub frame and all suspension components, removing them to clean and paint. They pulled the rad support which gave me fits getting it in place and correct when I replaced the bushings. Nothing lines up now.. Nothing!!!! Quarter panels, fenders and doors all have damage, plus now I have to pull everything apart, get out my tape measure and realign all the work I had done before. From what I can tell the front passengers side is further forward now than the drivers and rad support is pushed over to the right of the car instead of center..
All in all Im pretty down that I have to redo what i did before to align everything, however it should surely go much better this time around. My goal is to get it aligned this weekend and then fix the damaged panels and give it a nice coat of polyester again to make sure we are dead straight before I blow it apart for paint.. The customer said he had no idea they were going to completely take the car apart, but Im not upset with him for something someone else did.
Moral of this story?? Gee I dont think there is one lol