Every Car Has A Story....

"Every Car Has A Story"....

This is not only the story of a 1974 Javelin, but of my wife, Linda, and her dedication and love for this car. Many have written about their experiences with their cars....I hope that the following pages will, in some small part, give you a sense of the affection that Linda has for her beloved Javelin....

So, the restoration story begins as....

Left the Javelin at local bodyshop to get restored last July, nearly 1 year ago. Shop basically quit working on the car after a couple of months. I recently picked the car up and had to take it to another local shop, hopefully with alot better results. The first bodyshop did very little actual work on the car, and infact broke several parts. When I picked the car up it was in 1000 pieces, parts were thrown in floorboards, in trunk, the radiator was even laying in the back seat. It looked like a jigsaw puzzle, very unprofessional. The had dogs in the shop at night and they pissed all over the wheels, and now they are rusted. So basically the restoration project is starting over. Here are a couple of photos, one taken of what the Javelin looked like the day I left it at first bodyshop and the second of what it looks like now.

Edited by dltowers - Feb/19/2016 at 5:21pm

If that shop is still in business you should post it down in the yay-nay section!

Keep others from falling into that trap. ouch, you have my sympathy, bummer.

Looks like a very nice solid car. The people that pulled that on you shouldent be in business.

When the new bodyshop pulled all the carpet out, they found another Car Build Order under the Driver's Side Front Carpet, it was in bad shape, but readable, and the codes matched the Car Build Order that was found earlier behind rear seat springs. I do not know why there were "2" Build Sheets?

a year!! WOW. That is crazy. Tools and materials have come a long way, paint booths paints etc. You can probably build a new AMC factory in a year LOL. Probably took them a day to strip the car to how it looked when you picked it up and then they stopped there. It should'nt take any hard working body shops more than a couple months from when they start turning wrenches on it to do a strong repaint with rust repair on a solid muscle car. If it does they are too busy doing other things and or cant handle the level of jobs they are doing. But that sounds just horrible.