Re: [AMC-list] paint job

["Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russ sez:

"One last thing, then I'm going to bed. Take all the hard to find stuff, such as that 
primo AMX bumper or spotless '64 Ambassador mirrors, and keep it home. These shops 
sometime employ maskers or sanders who follow Ebay and they know what a 70 AMX grill is 
worth. It's easier to just keep it home than to fight with the shop after the part is 
lost. When I drove my AMX to the shop, I have had about a dozen cars painted at this shop, 
I kept just enough on the car to make it safe and legal. I spent 10 minutes in the lot 
taking off the remainder and it went in my chase car. Then I took pictures of the car, 
with the morning paper sitting on the hood, before turning it over. I trust the shop, but 
I'm just sayin'......Russ"

Great advise Russ, no matter how reputable, or even the shop might be, sometimes stuff 
happens, whether items get lost, stolen, mis placed, ect. A guy who was having his 74 AMX 
rotisseried down here in Houston in Sugarland would be good example. The shop does second 
to none work and the AMX was probably the low end car they were going thru, Lotus, a 
Pantera, 50's Jag, but they do excellent work. However, some of the items on the 74 AMX 
got accidentally tossed in the outgoing pile; that is the pile in back where old 
fiberglass, broken plastic, rusty fenders, and what have you, goes to be recycled. So they 
ended up buying replacement items from me. The fellow felt bad that it happened, but 
readily admitted it was a simple mistake one of his workers put good stuff in bad pile. 
And then gone forever.
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com

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