07-22-2022, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Greenville,
SC
Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, ERA 289 roadster hybrid, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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Originally Posted by EZ$
Listen to Tommy when he says to make certain that you discuss a timetable for completion and have a plan if the schedule that you agree to is not met.
Ken does spectacular work. I've seen quite a few of the cars he's done, so I took my car to him last August. I'm now at week 47 and I still do not have the body back. Was told 2-4 months up front, and I've been way too passive through the process. I know it will be stunning when I do get it, but I just hope I'm still young enough to drive it when I do!
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Commodity issues, employment issue, equipment issues, state government and local government issues can all play a part in delays. You may want to call and ask which of the above is the cause for the delay. I do know that there are quite a few base materials that are in short, or non supply right now, something as simple as 1 gram of a specific base product unavailable for your specific paint mix could be the hold up. Yes, really. I was on the opposite end of this back in 2011 and the Fukushima nuke plant disaster in Japan. Two certain "Mica" powders were only manufactured close by, as soon as the nuke plant went down, the production facility was evacuated. As such, the 4 bottles of Mica powder I had became very valuable, and I had body shops as far away as 400 miles asking me to sell them a gram here, or a gram there, and for 100 times what I paid for them so they could finish the cars they had at the shop. Think about that for a moment given the commodity issues that are world wide right now......Again, yes, really.
Bill S.
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