chev 283 w/powerglide vs 202 w/trimatic

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PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE!!!!

If you are a vulture waiting for a feed

[Kirk]

My rust and paint guy....almost exactly the same...he ended up quitting the job after his last hospital visit as "his lungs were no good" almost same price too.

[Heavy Judy.]

Had a Transhit van painted last year. bought the paint myself,
paint alone ( + thinners etc ) cost $700.00.
Mark.

[westy12]

well it pains me to admit that ive been had!!! u were right kirk, i was hoping u werent, but u were...
i guess ive got loser or gullible  written on my forehead!
i never thought someone would or could blatantly lie to my face. how can people do this?
there was always an excuse as to why i couldnt go see the van and it was miles away too so not a trip i wanted to take often, but he told me he had done most of it, and i believed him.
oh how he talked up how good it was going to be, not only fix the rusty gutters but any other rust he saw.. and he had the midnight blue paint aswell.  easy as that. and he has the nerve to say he has the chev 283 there that he will sell me cheap and help me put in!!!
i know he has not been well and been in and out of hospital, and is back there now so i now know its never going to happen and it was too good to be true!
i recently found out where the van was, in a truck yard,  jumped the fence and saw that the van is exactly the same as i gave it to him. not even started on!
7 months later!!!
nearly 8 months actually.
oh well, live and learn. if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
 i gave him $600 and basicaly lost a years rego, but on the good side a mate gave me his townace van that i could acually make money on so im not too bitter.
so where does that leave me? well i still have to confront him and hear his excuse as to why he never touched it, and lied to me, but cant get onto him at the moment his phone is disconnected. surprise surprise.
then ive got to get the van back, blocked in by a truck and the battery is flat so ill have to work that out. the truck owner is his brother who i tracked down.

then im back at square one.  the rust in my gutters is really bad and spreading to the roof and walls. it really needs doing. back to that 4 grand quote? ouch! there was a thread here earlier about someone needing a good panel beater in melbs.. was that u kirk? i even thought at the time of mentioning my guy!! ha ha! thinking of doing a welding course or just paying a guy to show me some tips for a day. but ive got nowhere to do it where i live which sux. from memory that panelbeater search came up empty. relatively good, relatively cheap guys are non existant i think.
oh well, ill get there in the end.
this is my story. thanks for reading. westy the gullible!!

[restoreid]

Dont feel too bad Westy it happend to me years ago & cost me heaps to get the car back then had to do the job myself learnt welding by trial & error & painting out of american hot rod took me ages but I got there Keep your chin up

[obsession]

fff, westy sorry to hear that , wished-ed I lived in melb im hanging out to do paid work on beddys got a medical clearance yesterday , so now I just need to find customers and a workshop BUT I RECKON IT'LL BE 1 JOB AT A TIME that way guys can be confident that works being done.

[John Abbott]

Now that sounds good to me Craig!!!!

[Warren]

BUGA Westy

But on the bright side, if you teach yourself to do the work it will be very rewarding.

Warren

[Zeeman]

Sorry to hear about your experience, Westy. Unfortunately in my experience of old cars and bikes, I have found that 90% of people in the automotive trade are full of shit, and cannot deliver decent work for a decent price.

You have to either learn to do it yourself, which requires a large investment in tools and workspace, or pay a quality tradesman (they are out there).

This is that other thread you were thinking of:

http://www.buga.com.au/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=2&topic=2765.0

Good luck, and keep us posted.

[eddy]

hey westy, thats a shitter mate, two choices left really  .... do it yourself (very worthwhile learning and investing in tools) ..... or start it up and keep driving it  like most of us realists do until something else comes up, you should be right for another 10 - 20 years before it starts disintergrating .. your not a loser mate, try the other 'L' word = learned