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jmwuva05

jmwuva05

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So I have been waiting on my windshield frame for 4 months now. Every time I had called the chromer they said it would be another two weeks. After no answer for the past 3 days I drove out to the shop. Closed with a chain across the entrance. I asked the man in the shop next door if he had seen them when he proceeds to tell me the guys were arrested last week! Apparently they dumped chemical waste out all over a nearby field and tried to get away. Went to the police department where I was told I had to file a complaint and wait an undetermined period of time before law officers would take people into the shop to retrieve items.
I just hope my stuff is still in there. My windshield is a pre 5437 BE frame. I understand those things are very rare and I am not certain if I would be able to find another. Has anyone on the forum seen any classifieds, know of, or have one of these frames?
This whole thing just kills me. I should be driving my car around now without bugs hitting me in the face.
 
It is the Bugeye frame with all the lift a dots across the front.
 
I think it is. I have one and only one and it is on my car. I'm looking for a spare too. I've seen a few on EBay, but they went for big money.
 
Lemme look when I get home this weekend....I've had the same thing happen to me & know what you're about to go through.
 
A similar thing happened to my wife, but it was her wedding dress. No other way to say it, that sucks! :frown: Maybe someone here has a "loaner" you could use until you find out what happens to yours. Did they have any other parts of yours?
 
I have a spare windshield frame if you are interested. Please send me a message.

Mike

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Boy is that a nice looking frame.
 
:iagree: Yes indeed!!! BCF (where major problems become minor inconveniences
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Just one suggestion--keep in touch with the police. It will be easy for them to forget about this, unless people keep after them. You have to tread a fine line between being persistent and being annoying. When it reaches the point where it is less of a hassle for them to get you into the closed factory than continually fielding your calls, they'll do it.

This is my method for dealing with people who have no other incentive to do what you need them to do, and is their responsiblity to do. Works great for collecting bills--not fast, but effective. I call them every day and ask about the progress in cutting a check. No threats, no anger, but I DON'T give up. When they realize I'm not going away, things start to happen.
 
:iagree: & drive by occassionally - better yet, find out who owns the property & befriend them...at some point, the police will release their property back to them & they'll want to clean up for the next tenant...unless the police tell them not to do so, they'll probably throw everything away!

I got one of my cars back when the owner of a building/lot started cleaning out the place where it was being repaired before the company went bankrupt - the owner of the building towed all the old cars to a salvage yard...luckily, it was owned by a friend of mine who called me to bring my trailer to pick up my car! When the cars arrived, he ran the VINs (even though he knew that if it was an LBC, it was probably mine) & let me know even though he didn't have to do so.

The owner of the property had a document from the court giving him everything the guy left behind as payment of his lease debt....luckily, my friend was receiving the old cars...we immediately (my daughter, the lawyer) proved it was mine & that it had been in for repairs only & the court removed it from the list of items the property owner could dispose of & returned it to me!

The whole thing you're getting into can easily become convulated!
 
Where in South Carolina? I heard of some folks getrting arrested here in the upstate of SC for riding around in a truck while dumping chemicals used for chroming.
 
Ok,
Is this a test? That windscreen has the fasteners across the top but.... it’s not a correct 58 frame. Look at the picture again. 58's are very different at the frame and uprights. Looks like a later frame that someone modified to use with a top from a 58 somewhere along the way.
"dug"
 
Just may be so. Not knowledgeable enough on the '58 frames to know for sure.
 
I would think with all the snaps that the 58 frame would not need the groove that "stands off" the glass like a 59 does! Good eye!!! :wink:
 
58's are totally different. Someone was doing there best to work around a problem sometime in the past. Even the small studs in the header are not what were used in the 58's header. But to be truthful, someone was most likely at their wits end trying to find a real 58 frame or glass for that matter back when…
“dug”
What's the phrase; I don't have a solution but I admire the problem!
 
Dug said:
But to be truthful, someone was most likely at their wits end trying to find a real 58 frame or glass for that matter back when…
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That was windshield that was on the car when I acquired it but I have subsequently replaced it. Who added the studs along the top rail and was at their 'wits end'? I can't speak to that but perhaps it was the same 'professional' mechanic that the previous owner used who also neglected to install a gasket for the rear axle (Gee, I wonder why it's leaking?), had the rear brake shoes on incorrectly, configured much of the wiring in such a way that a slumlord would have been proud, etc. And people wonder why I prefer to do the service on my cars.

The difference in windshields appears obvious now that I really look at them together (top windshield in image represents what is currently on my Bugeye).

Mike

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That was enlighting, again I learned something. Thanks.
 
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