reforger2002
11-17-2015, 08:08 AM
#1 son stopped at a traffic accident and put a TQ on a young woman who had a nasty open fracture. There is a thread in Trauma about it.
Seems her extended family is Lebanese and in the auto repair and auto body business with some of the biggest and best shops in town.
#1 son is driving his first bought it hissownself truck – a mighty 2002 GMC Sonoma with rust and dings a plenty but only 80 k miles on it. It has the old school plastic floor instead of carpet. This was a farm / chore truck and was treated as such. He paid a princely $3,500 for it.
Anyway the woman’s father or maybe uncle tells him to drop it by their shop and they’ll “at least knock a few dents out”. It’ll “Take a few days to work you in.” That was a clue right there.
He just swung by the office on his way to school – the Lebanese mafia went whole hog on this truck
Knocked out all dings
Cut out several rust spots, welded / body filled patches in place
New brakes
New plugs and wires and battery
New shocks and struts
New Belts and Hoses
Radiator Flush
Transmission flush and fill with crazy expensive synthetic tranny fluid
Fresh paint – really sharp looking slate grey , kind of stealthy.
Spray in bed liner – they went 6” over the top rail and down the side they also removed the seats and shot most of the cab interior with it then installed some floor drains so he pretty much hose out the inside.
Put in a radio that was designed to go in a boat.
Put in some seat covers made from the stuff wet suits are made of.
He’s pretty much speechless. I guess they told him “We said the least we could do was fix the dents …. Not what could we do if we really wanted to. “ I hate to think how much that would have cost.
I guess the last thing they told him was “If you get rust again and we catch you running around town w/o bringing it to use to fix we gunna smack you in the head.”
Try and get a pic of the stupid phone thing later.
Seems her extended family is Lebanese and in the auto repair and auto body business with some of the biggest and best shops in town.
#1 son is driving his first bought it hissownself truck – a mighty 2002 GMC Sonoma with rust and dings a plenty but only 80 k miles on it. It has the old school plastic floor instead of carpet. This was a farm / chore truck and was treated as such. He paid a princely $3,500 for it.
Anyway the woman’s father or maybe uncle tells him to drop it by their shop and they’ll “at least knock a few dents out”. It’ll “Take a few days to work you in.” That was a clue right there.
He just swung by the office on his way to school – the Lebanese mafia went whole hog on this truck
Knocked out all dings
Cut out several rust spots, welded / body filled patches in place
New brakes
New plugs and wires and battery
New shocks and struts
New Belts and Hoses
Radiator Flush
Transmission flush and fill with crazy expensive synthetic tranny fluid
Fresh paint – really sharp looking slate grey , kind of stealthy.
Spray in bed liner – they went 6” over the top rail and down the side they also removed the seats and shot most of the cab interior with it then installed some floor drains so he pretty much hose out the inside.
Put in a radio that was designed to go in a boat.
Put in some seat covers made from the stuff wet suits are made of.
He’s pretty much speechless. I guess they told him “We said the least we could do was fix the dents …. Not what could we do if we really wanted to. “ I hate to think how much that would have cost.
I guess the last thing they told him was “If you get rust again and we catch you running around town w/o bringing it to use to fix we gunna smack you in the head.”
Try and get a pic of the stupid phone thing later.