300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Poor Julian. His build thread got derailed
1969 Imperial progress thread
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patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
We'll re-rail it. Your Imperial is coming along brilliantly, Julian!
Yes left lane was what I meant but just cruising in the right lane might not be bad for the car's longevity neither.
Julian, your car is getting a lot of TLC as I have gone back many pages on this thread to see your work, intent and progress. If you have any small parts that I can scavange off an Imerial in a scrap yard near me let me know.
Boydsdodge is going through it right now and I have set aside a few parts for him but I am sure he's not going to take it all. Enjoy seeing your work towards it's resurection.
Rip, I have a german connection, the wife is german, been to Germany , driven the Autobaun so no insult or any attempt at a lame joke.
Julian, let me know if I can help.
PT
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
What happened to the door that @bigmoparjeff sent you?
The container the door is in was pulled out by US customs for a routine inspection... Besides a big bill we got for that, the container will not be in Rotterdam and unpacked before end of April.
And I don't want to wait that long.. I'm going on a 4 week US roadtrip on April, 25. So the entire project would rest without progress until June/July..
Beause of that, I will try anything to avoid that. I want to have the car painted by then.
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How Detroit Muscle Technologies (DMT) treats their customers...
I am really upset about how they treat customers and want to share this story here to warn others and save them a lot of time..! In January, I contacted @jfillmore from DMT via PM on this forum here and asked him if he was willing to manufacture all the gaskets I need for my 1969 Imperial...
www.forcbodiesonly.com
Her is an update on one of the projects I was working on...
chipieal
Member
Maybe it is the car. Not many people have the respect we have for Imperials.
Ok Guys, I'm back from my 4 weeks, 5300 miles long Road Trip through the USAs south-west and south. It was a breathtaking time!
Back to my beloved Imperial, I directly have breathtaking news as well......!
You all remember my long long journey go get a new passenger door! After the door from the Netherlands was in junk condition all my hopes were in the door I got from @bigmoparjeff.
As the attentive reader will remember, I had trouble during shipping with it.
The container the door was in was secretly removed from the ship by Price Transfer, a company that does container searches for US customs, for a random search. This "service" has to be payed by the "users" of the container....
Not only did that cost me an additional $170 as part of this charge and a better part of 5 month... It cost me an intact door as well. It went into the trunk of the 73 dart it was shipped in without a single dent. It arrived here in germany on the back seat of this car and was damaged bad..!
The only way it could get this damage was when Price Transfer unpacked/packed it...
Of course, there es no reaction to this at all from them...
This whole door thing is killing me!
Now it has to go back to my body man go get repaired which takes weeks again...
Back to my beloved Imperial, I directly have breathtaking news as well......!
You all remember my long long journey go get a new passenger door! After the door from the Netherlands was in junk condition all my hopes were in the door I got from @bigmoparjeff.
As the attentive reader will remember, I had trouble during shipping with it.
The container the door was in was secretly removed from the ship by Price Transfer, a company that does container searches for US customs, for a random search. This "service" has to be payed by the "users" of the container....
Not only did that cost me an additional $170 as part of this charge and a better part of 5 month... It cost me an intact door as well. It went into the trunk of the 73 dart it was shipped in without a single dent. It arrived here in germany on the back seat of this car and was damaged bad..!
The only way it could get this damage was when Price Transfer unpacked/packed it...
Of course, there es no reaction to this at all from them...
This whole door thing is killing me!
Now it has to go back to my body man go get repaired which takes weeks again...
Thats an awful ordeal to deal with. Is no one responsible?
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
That took a lot of force to put a dent in that, looks like it was done on purpose. Perhaps some azzho!e inspector upset they had to pick up a very heavy object.
Ripinator
Old Man with a Hat
Ok Guys, I'm back from my 4 weeks, 5300 miles long Road Trip through the USAs south-west and south. It was a breathtaking time!
Back to my beloved Imperial, I directly have breathtaking news as well......!
You all remember my long long journey go get a new passenger door! After the door from the Netherlands was in junk condition all my hopes were in the door I got from @bigmoparjeff.
As the attentive reader will remember, I had trouble during shipping with it.
The container the door was in was secretly removed from the ship by Price Transfer, a company that does container searches for US customs, for a random search. This "service" has to be payed by the "users" of the container....
Not only did that cost me an additional $170 as part of this charge and a better part of 5 month... It cost me an intact door as well. It went into the trunk of the 73 dart it was shipped in without a single dent. It arrived here in germany on the back seat of this car and was damaged bad..!
The only way it could get this damage was when Price Transfer unpacked/packed it...
Of course, there es no reaction to this at all from them...
This whole door thing is killing me!
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Now it has to go back to my body man go get repaired which takes weeks again...
This is criminal! I hope it can be repaired and that somehow you can get Price or US Customs to pay for it.
Unfortunately, there is nothing more we can do... We tried!
The thing is, we don't have a good picture of the door stored inside the trunk that shows it undamaged. And we would need that to make any claims.
In my opinion an omission of the shipper who packed the container. But it's a friend of my buddy, in whose car the door came over here and I'm not going after him...
I'm the loser in this whole thing, but I can't do much about it... That's how it is.
Just another setback in this long exhausting project.
The thing is, we don't have a good picture of the door stored inside the trunk that shows it undamaged. And we would need that to make any claims.
In my opinion an omission of the shipper who packed the container. But it's a friend of my buddy, in whose car the door came over here and I'm not going after him...
I'm the loser in this whole thing, but I can't do much about it... That's how it is.
Just another setback in this long exhausting project.
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But yes, it can be repaired and it will be. But it's a couple hundred Euros more money and the even worse part, it sets back the painting of the car even more. That's what pulls me down...
Paintless dent removal should be able to repair that pretty easy.
No Bondo.
No Bondo.
OldWarHorse300
Active Member
Sorry to hear that ...but luckily you have a very skilled body guy and there's no sharp edges on that dent, so he can handle it I think.
Patience, Julian patience you know..
...but luckily you have a very skilled body guy and there's no sharp edges on that dent, so he can handle it I think.Patience, Julian patience
you know..
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You guys have it so much harder restoring these cars across the pond, my hat is off to you Julian! Glad you had a good trip, next time I expect you will come to the midwest please.
3175375
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That’s terrible! No accountability! I’m glad you had a great holiday! Stay on the Imperial, it’s going to be fantastic!
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Ten years.
Im recovering from a near fatal heart attack.
HurryTF up will'ya???
Im recovering from a near fatal heart attack.
HurryTF up will'ya???
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
WTF??
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