So a couple of days ago I bought a 1980 Z28 with t-tops. Yesterday it was supposed to be reassembled I.E. subframe reattached and all of the parts taken out of a garage where they are stored and placed neatly in the vehicle. It should have been sitting there nicely in a package ready to be picked up. The guy who owns a "shop" said his guys from the shop where gonna be down there to put it all together, but yesterday he went to the hospital and today was the same story. So on their word that it would be ready I pick up a U-haul truck and trailer which by tomorrow will end up costing me $250 dollars. Get there and nothings assembled noone to be found so I get to work in the pouring rain to get the wheels back onto the subframe, the subframe half bolted on and the car moving again. His assistant who is a young guy and kind of a punk was very back talkative (lacking better words). He can't seem to get anyone from the shop down there and he can't seem to leave the hospital where this guy is so I have no tools or anything. They had a cherry picker on site which I used to get the motor and tranny in my $190+ U-haul truck (not counting the trailer rental) I use an old jack that I don't even know the name of (not a bottle jack) to finally get the subframe half bolted on loosely. I try to move the car, but it wont budge. This guy won't show up and at this point I'm infuriated. I go down the street and find a couple of dudes to help me push the car, but even with 3 dudes and my wife pushing we cant get it to budge because the subframe is touching the ground and the front wheels are flat. Either way it cost me $250 dollars and an entire day to get the motor and tranny. This weekend I have to take my jack, my tools and hopefully acquire a set of tires and get this beast bolted back together and on a trailer. Hopefully my neighbor will let me use his truck and i can just rent the trailer because it is the cheaper of the options between truck and trailer. I will never use U-haul again and I will never trust someone again to do what they said they will do. This is the first time I have ever gone to pick up a car thats in pieces and I have learned from this experience. Maybe there is someone in or near Austin, Texas who has a set of front wheels and tires I can use and maybe a trailer? Maybe someone knows someone. I don't want to go at this alone again, but I will if I have too... I'm determined and this car will sit in my garage before the end of July. I got pics, but I'm too tired to post em and I have an early a** morning. Thanks everyone

 

sounds like quite the experience lol, good luck and sorry for the bad luck

joe

 

Wow, sounds like something I would do. Was the wife naggin the whole time? I would have called first. I can tell you that you could have wheeled it up on the trailer without the subframe. I drove 300 miles to get my car and the guy was completely unprepaired. It took the better part of 3hrs to load everthing up. Bustin our *** too. I was in contact for days before I left and called the morning I did leave. Had a ton of stuff in the way.

As for the car though you can roll it like a wheel barrow up on the trailer with two guys and one person throwing a tire underneath every time you need a breather. Took us about four tries to go 30 feet.

 

If you can't find tires and wheels, can you take an air compressor and pump the tires up? If you can't pump them up, then just take a kinfe and cut the darn tires off, leaving just the bead on the rims. They roll quite easily on hard surfaces with just the rim and bead. I've done it when a tire is flat and worthless to push them around.