Thread: The timesaver coupe

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No door handles? Ask him to sit in the car, shut the doors and tell him you will let him out when he solves that little problem. Shesh!!!

Ditto both Mike & Ray, and I really like Ray's suggestion. Isn't it amazing how some guys can be so talented at trying to slip away from responsibility for their shortcomings? Like making the door panel too thick for the door handle, and trying to just pass it off with "...yeah, I don't know what you wanna do there....", and "...yeah, the brake lights are still on all the time, like you said...". The guy must have been born with a Teflon coating.

Very nicely done. It looks great.

Sorry to hear of the issues but it does look like he does nice work. Now if he could plan a little better maybe he wouldn't forget about door handle holes in door panels.

Well everyone it's been a long 7 weeks but it is finally home. I made up my mind it was coming home come hell or high water. Call me a prick if you will but I wasn't about to fork over the cash before everything was fixed. So I made another "Installment" if you will, towards paying the bill. We get there Monday morning to find the car outside...? To my surprise and shock he fixed the door panels and even installed the door handles (though they are install wrong I can turn them around). He tells me the brake lights are now working but he couldn't get the driver side power window or the 3rd brake light to work and then hits me with a (You're all set). So I tell him because he took 7 weeks that I had to pay a bill and I will have the rest of his money in a couple weeks when I get paid. I don't think he liked it but I don't give a rats ass what he likes. What I should do is give him the rest of his money over the next seven weeks and see if he likes it. The real train of thought here was I'm going to take the car to an auto electric place and have them fix it and deduct that from what I owe him. So as the wife gets in I find out the real reason he is done with the car. He says "just in time here's my next customer" and he points to a 64' Impala. I felt like warning the poor bastard what he was about to get into but I didn't. So off we go and I'm following her and she gets to an intersection and a truck waves her on and she hit it a little hard and did a burn out...(oops). We hit the highway and just as we get to our exit she hit the brakes and...yup. The third brake light comes on. I pull up on her and tell her to try her window and up it went. This has me scratching my head. We got home and she told me to hop in and we went for a quick joy ride. As she pulled it into the garage the oil pressure gauge shot up to 80 PSI (max on the gauge). Looks like we have some electrical gremlins at work here. We'll have to chase them down one at a time and exterminate them for good. Just happy it's home.

Glass body? grounding issues--------

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Glass body? grounding issues--------

Yes that's what I'm thinking too. But everything worked perfectly till he got his hands on it.

Multiple grounding points to the steel chassis are always a good idea. I forget how many I have, but it's more than two or three.

seems like the interminten inops are door mounted, fender mounted-------

Maybe the interior guy left some wires undone or pinched some? Good luck with it. At least you have it back. I don't blame you at all for waiting on the installment. He's probably lucky he's getting paid the rest at all IMO.

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

seems like the interminten inops are door mounted, fender mounted-------

Door and trunk mounted. Jerry you do know this is a fender-less coupe right?

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

Multiple grounding points to the steel chassis are always a good idea. I forget how many I have, but it's more than two or three.

That's why I have 2 Ron Francis grounding kits going into the 34. One for the front and one for the back. You can never have too many or too good of a ground. Paint is your enemy, clean metal, and star washers are your friend. I know the drill but I'm not sure the original builder did. I did notice the wiring under the dash was a mess and had planned on tidying it up a bit but was hoping to do it over the winter not so soon. My last rod had a dash fire causing a complete rewire so this has me a little concerned. Not freaked out mind you just concerned. That car was a nightmare. Every single wire on that car was red. Like he picked up a big spool at a yard sale and said "This will work".

Oh-no fenders????????? probably no tail lights??????? Nobody behind you is looking for no dam tail lights-----------------

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Oh-no fenders????????? probably no tail lights??????? Nobody behind you is looking for no dam tail lights-----------------

Your rite-----they aren't working, maybe as part of the new eco green climate change thing-they only work at night?????????

I was looking under the computer desk for the 39 tail lights for Robins 34 and they weren't working either--------------------