Westcoastspeedcustom.com for C1 frames
06-01-2014, 01:49 PM
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Westcoastspeedcustom.com for C1 frames
Doing research for frames and I came across this shop. Anybody here or use these frames for C1? I like how you can get the modern c6-c7 suspension and use the camaro rear end and avoid significant mods to drive tunnel. Thanks!
06-04-2014, 02:05 PM
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06-04-2014, 03:49 PM
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06-04-2014, 04:12 PM
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My advice, is that if you can not find a bunch of satisfied owners of a chassis, then avoid them like the plague.
Guys like SRIII, Art Morrison, Corvette Corrections, Roadster Shop, and Paul Newman, have been building frames for years and have it down to a cold, steely-eyed science. Why take a gamble on a fabricator that has no track record? This is a bunch of money that you are contemplating spending, and there are a bunch of guys who build great frames, with many, many, satisfied customers. I have seen guys who have dropped a load of money on frames that are basically unusable and unsafe.
If all you get from a builder is a bunch of hype about how their design hung the moon, without a big list of satisfied owners, then run like the wind.
I have offered this advice before when several people were contemplating a frame from the person referred to above, and several went with him anyway, as he had a great sales pitch. Needless to say, he left them swinging in the wind, and went out of business. If you build a great product, you do not need to sell it, your customers will do it for you.
I know absolutely nothing about the company you are asking about, buy that is kind of a red flag for me. I have been building Corvette resto-mods for quite a few years, and If I have not heard of them, it must mean that they have not built many Corvette frames yet.
Regards, John McGraw
Guys like SRIII, Art Morrison, Corvette Corrections, Roadster Shop, and Paul Newman, have been building frames for years and have it down to a cold, steely-eyed science. Why take a gamble on a fabricator that has no track record? This is a bunch of money that you are contemplating spending, and there are a bunch of guys who build great frames, with many, many, satisfied customers. I have seen guys who have dropped a load of money on frames that are basically unusable and unsafe.
If all you get from a builder is a bunch of hype about how their design hung the moon, without a big list of satisfied owners, then run like the wind.
I have offered this advice before when several people were contemplating a frame from the person referred to above, and several went with him anyway, as he had a great sales pitch. Needless to say, he left them swinging in the wind, and went out of business. If you build a great product, you do not need to sell it, your customers will do it for you.
I know absolutely nothing about the company you are asking about, buy that is kind of a red flag for me. I have been building Corvette resto-mods for quite a few years, and If I have not heard of them, it must mean that they have not built many Corvette frames yet.
Regards, John McGraw
06-04-2014, 05:09 PM
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