Did you get to keep the passengers door?
Nate
1959 Chevy Apache 3605
1960 Chevy Apache 3/4 ton (future project)
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:52:03 -0500 "S Culver" <sculver@mcleodusa.net>
writes:
> Remember the old Carly Simon song about Anticipation? Well, my wife,
> who owns
> the '58 Apache in our family, has been waiting for about 3 months to
> get her
> truck back from the paint shop. Why so long? Well, besides the
> fact that our
> paint guy takes a very long time to do a job (He does it right!), it
> turned
> out that that danged ol' drivers side door that never would shut
> right, and
> had to be slammed so hard that it rattled the windows on houses up
> and down
> the street, had a worn out hinge at the bottom. Could not be fixed,
> even with
> the new hinges that I bought for that purpose. Problem was not in
> the hinges,
> but in the door. Been welded back so many times, and broken off and
> welded
> back, that there is no way to line the door up, and it will never
> again shut
> as it did 40 years ago.
>
> So what do you do? Buy another door, one that has a good hinge
> base, and will
> bolt on and shut like it's supposed to. Well, finding a door for
> this truck
> was no picnic, but my wife persisted, night after night on the
> internet, until
> finally, we found one in California. (We're in Texas) Okay, no
> matter the
> cost, we need a door. The guy had a great door, of which he sent us
> a
> picture. In the picture, the door closed tightly and totally
> aligned on the
> drivers side of the truck. How nice it will be to have THAT door on
> our
> truck! So we agreed on the price, sent the cashier's check, and sat
> patiently
> in the driveway, looking and listening for anything that sounded
> remotely like
> an approaching delivery truck. Eight days later, here it came. A
> fairly
> clean (they never look like they did in the picture), restorable and
> useable
> door. And it had a GREAT hinge base at the bottom!
>
> So off to the paint shop.
>
> Proudly my wife pulled in the paint shop driveway and called our
> paint guy to
> come get this door, so he can paint it, finish the truck, and give
> her back
> her "baby." The paint guy totally agreed that this door was in
> really good
> shape, and would fit this truck like the proverbial glove. Only one
> problem:
> I DID say we needed a drivers side door. This door was for the
> passenger
> side!
>
> So NOW what? A call to the door guy. No answer. E-mail to the
> door guy. No
> answer. Finally, a couple of days later, we received e-mail that
> the
> "mummies" who work for him were actually the best help available,
> but as we
> know, *%@# happens. So we are now once again sitting in the
> driveway,
> listening for the sound of an approaching delivery truck, to receive
> the
> proper door, for which we were not charged, by the way. My only
> hope is that
> the "mummies" did not send us a tail gate!
>
> Smokey Culver
> League City, Texas
> '50 3600 5-window (mine)
> '58 Apache (hers)
> '99 Intruder LC 1500
> See 'em at http://sites.netscape.net/ChrlsCul/homepage
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> 1959
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