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Re: 198Plus build
Ya buddy. sound nice. You'll probably pass out in there listening to it.
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Re: 198Plus build
Sounds real nice!!!
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Re: 198Plus build
Maybe I was too late
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Re: 198Plus build
Thanks
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Re: 198Plus build
Looks and sounds great!!
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Sunburst C10!!!
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Re: 198Plus build
hey what mufflers are those
that sounds sorta like my truck
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Re: 198Plus build
Question........ Did these trucks come with under coating on bottom of cab or where they painted the same color as the body ?????
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Re: 198Plus build
Yes and yes on the paint and undercoating. Per the factory assembly manual, undercoating was applied up to 21" from the outside body lines toward the centerline and the backside of the sheet metal was painted the body color.
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Thanks Tony......Don't guess you would have any factory pics ?????
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Re: 198Plus build
As most of you have probably guessed already, I'm no longer doing any work on this restoration. Don't worry there is no bad blood. The cost was getting to be more than he wanted to spend. Ronnie is shopping around for cheaper rates. We still talk from time to time. I asked him if there was anything I could do to improve the way I did things. He seems to be happy with the way I treated him. He was screwed by 2 others shops, I just wanted to restore the trust.
Good luck Ronnie on your remainder of your build.
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Alan's absolutely right, he done me a great job !!!!!!!!!!!! Like he said it all boiled down to cost, not that he charged to much his rates where very reasonable at 40 an hour especially for someone of his knowledge and workmanship as y'all all know. I had to slow down on project because of money.Alan kept me updated every day with pics and documented the hours he worked every day on a spreadsheet to my e-mail.
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Re: 198Plus build
IMO, if Alan was only charging you $40/hour. Put the truck on hold till you can pay him to finish. I would be very suspect of anyone charging less then that and still providing the quality work. Unless you find some guy that just doesn't need the money and is doing it for fun.
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I probably drove him crazy anyway...........
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Re: 198Plus build
Need some help..........Trying to get the bed on my truck mocked up before paint, what is the correct distance between back of cab and front bed panel.
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Re: 198Plus build
Probably more than that Alan !!!!!!!!!!
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Re: 198Plus build
I could charge only $10/hr for labor, but charge 4 times the hours it took. The Honda Dealers used to pay there Techs $12 to $15 per flat rate hour. But they charged double the time it should take. At BMW we got between $20 to $28/hr and our flat rate time was closer to how long it would take to do the job. This was in 1990 the last time I worked as a tech. At the time that Dealer charged $100/hr. Even though we got a small percentage of that I still made almost $60k a year.
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Re: 198Plus build
I knew I should have been a dealer.
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Re: 198Plus build
Sold my Torq-Thrust II Wheels Today, could have sold 10 sets of them.... Pics of new wheels and tires tomorrow.
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