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stickandrudderman

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Completed restoration.
« on: April 27, 2011, 20:35:05 »
So, last week we handed over a 250SE convertible that we've been restoring for a customer for 18 months. We stripped it back to a bare shell and every peice has been subjected to repair, renewal, replacement or overhaul as necessary. (Pics to follow).
We handed the car over last thursday ( start of a long weekend here in the UK) and the owner was back this morning under a dark cloud. He was behind another car at a junction, car in front moves off, my customer looks to the right for oncoming traffic, see none and moves off. Can you guess what happened next?

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Re: Completed restoration.
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2011, 22:04:43 »
An extra 6 months of restoration. :'(
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Re: Completed restoration.
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2011, 23:08:43 »
Nooooooo!!!!! :'( :o
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Re: Completed restoration.
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 19:09:43 »
That hurts to think about!
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Re: Completed restoration.
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2011, 11:30:19 »
Not as bad as it might have been but the really annoying thing is that the front wings (fenders) were NLA and I managed to find a NOS pair from a wiley old character who knew exactly what he had and charged £1000 each for them! Sure,, we can repair this but......

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Re: Completed restoration.
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2011, 07:39:41 »
ouch! :(

You must be as gutted as the owner. Sure it's "work" but ...
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