Progress Thread Darkfader's 93 Gt Progress - Back to work

darkfader said:

Hey guys. Hope you didn’t think I lost interest. As far as the car goes, I’m only lacking front calipers and a set of wheels and the 5 lug/4 wheel disc brake conversion is a go.

The garage, well, that’s another story. A few words to describe it could be, extreme irritation, helplessness, among others that would probably only show up here as asterisks.

Here is the abridged version of the story:

Lots in my town are small, too small for a moderately sized home and garage. The lot next door to me came up for sale so I moved quickly to purchase it. I’m about a month or two away from finishing a complete gut and remodel on my home so I knew I had the equity to finance both the lot and the construction of the garage, even though I knew I could build the garage myself, this would save me a ton of time and work. I contacted the garage people and got the costs from them and added it into the financing on the empty lot. I was in constant contact with the builders from that time (early June 2017) until now. I told them I would pay them the day I closed on the loan, which I did, in full, up front. DON’T EVER DO THAT.

So they were paid on September 24, and I was told I was on the schedule for the third week of October with an approximate two week build time. No one showed up until the week after thanksgiving. The shell was done rather quickly and appeared to be well built. And that’s basically where I am now. No concrete, no garage doors. They did come late December and move the 25 ton pile of gravel out from in front of it and laid it inside along with vapor barrier and wire screen reinforcements for the crete.

I realize the holidays, and of course we can’t pour concrete in freezing weather. Fine. But I suppose I expected better service paying in full up front. I was a general contractor for many years and would’ve saved many thousands building the thing my self, but I didn’t really have the time and didn’t want it to drag out. But hindsight, if I had built it myself, it would probably be finished.

With temps in the 50’s this week, I’m hopeful that maybe they take advantage and get some concrete in there so that the overhead doors can be installed and I can actually use the thing. I’ll keep this thread updated.

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darkfader said:

I’m torn on chrome versus silver. I feel like the silver would look better on a white car. When it goes for paint, I’ll be keeping the original color. Chrome looks amazing on black cars though.

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darkfader said:

Are these the 18x9 5.95 backspace, +24 offset? And if so, what size tires are you running? Did you have to do anything out of the ordinary to fit them?

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