Re: Ya-HOO!

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On June 16, 2005 JOE B FULTON wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> How many Naugas did SMS have to kill for that vinyl?

I don't know, but they were well-bred!
> 
 
> I got bad vibes from Legendary interiors.  My car has
> the cinnamon/buff vinyl interior (code 46S) and
> Legendary first of all would not sell just one bucket
> seat cover. <snip>> Second of all, they weren't sure they had the original
> factory color and wanted to send swatches to match.
> Thirdly, their email/phone responses to my questions
> were really slow.  

Well, both SMS and Legendary wanted swatches of my material, which in my case wasn't a big deal as the front seat was shredded.  But, after sending it all off, I never heard from Legendary again, where as SMS got right back to me.  When I called, they asked my name, and pulled "my file" within a minute or so and I did everything right over the phone with probably the same helpful lady.  The rear panel of the front bench had to be special made, and they said it would be a 3 week delay, but I got it a week after I got the other material.  SMS wasn't cheap, but their stuff was spot-on for the original material, and it was delivered as promised or before.  I'll have no problem ordering from them again!

I got lucky with a local upholsterer.  I went to the shop that did my American a couple of yrs ago, and he was too busy.  Said if I dropped it off, maybe could get by the end of July.  So he suggested another shop, that told me basically the same thing, and wouldn't promise a timeline.  I was going to do that anyway, but then a guy from work knew of a lady that does work out of her house with a good reputation.  I had to make a couple of calls tracking her down, but then I took the car to her so she could look it over, then pulled the seat and took it in, and she did the work within a week, was very reasonable, and great quality!  She mainly does Hot Rods, and had a '39 Cheby coming in the day I picked up my seat.  I'd much rather deal with someone like that, that loves old cars, uses this to support her and her husband's hobby (they have a '40 Ford), and takes in enough work to keep her busy, but not so much she's swamped.   All her business is word of mouth.  Oh, yeah, she!
  also turned me on to a good local boneyard for old cars I didn't know anything about!  Maybe can check it out this weekend...

Jim Boone
Mims, FL



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