"PS9" (PS9)
06/27/2014 at 23:23 • Filed to: None
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"PS9" (PS9)
06/27/2014 at 23:23 • Filed to: None | 0
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You're a wealthy business owner. So wealthy in fact, that you can comfortably afford this.
But
Your business is that of a state wide automotive festooning shop where hundreds of cars every week come in to be ruined by your 'specialists'. You started out light - just wheels and lowering springs, no big deal right? But now you do everything. 20s, 30s, wangs 'n thangs, felt dash covered in TVs, 50 subs in the trunk, verting cars that should never be verted (STIs, Priuses, Roadmaster Buick Wagons, Crew Cab Trucks and Crossovers, whatever floats the customer's boats, right?) and of course stance. With all the scoobies and GTIs in your state, you can't not do stance. Your money comes directly from destroying innocent and defenseless automobiles.
But that's not your problem. It's not your fault everyone in your state has shitty taste. Why not take some moron's money? Besides, it's his car. So what if he want to ruin it, right? All well and good...until someone pulls into the shop with the one.
Your dreamcar in perfect condition. Maybe it's an identical 918. Maybe it's an F40. Maybe it's a Ford GT. Whatever it is, the owner has given you a list of what needs to be done. He wants the full monte. When this car leaves your shop, there will be no question in any enthusiats mind (including yours) that it has been desecrated in the most heinous of ways, and your shop and name will be known forever for taking the job. You will never live it down. So what do you do? Take the guy's money, shit out the mods he wants on the car, and finger anyone who doesn't like it? Or refuse him, and maybe consider getting out of the festooning industry?
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:26 |
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Tell the owner to head on down to WCC
Victorious Secret
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:27 |
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Mine would be the GT.
And I'd sooner just take the money, screw all the haters who will bitch, and do whatever the customer wants done.
At the end of the day, its a car. Nothing more, nothing less. I won't value a car above a person. I can however place a monetary value on a car, because money might not buy me happiness but it will buy me a jet ski. And who the hell is sad on a jet ski?
Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:28 |
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Steal my dream car and go to Mexico.
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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Victorious Secret
06/27/2014 at 23:31 |
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Mike
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:31 |
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Rather than let him ruin the car, I'd buy it off of him. Especially if it were that 918.
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PS9
> Mike
06/27/2014 at 23:33 |
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"Not for sale. Now can you add a second axle and swap that silly high revving V8 for a 3 Cylinder diesel or what?"
Anon
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:39 |
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Tell him that we have morals and that I have the right to refuse service to anyone I want.
GhostZ
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:41 |
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I would totally do it. It makes you the guy who created the ONE awful custom 918 hybrid in the world. These guys aren't "ruining" these cars, they're unknowingly creating rolling works of art that speak to the sins of all of mankind. So long as there exists a stock example, the idea of the 918 will never be ruined. It will still look the same on posters, and that example is living evidence of that.
CallMeTURBO
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:41 |
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Easy decision, if I was a wealthy business owner (one who could buy said 918) and some jackwad came in to my store and wanted me to ruin his mint 512 TR, I would just buy the car outright from him. Maybe throw in an extra hundred grand to seal the deal.
Otherwise, flat out refusal
For Sweden
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:42 |
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I wouldn't do any irreversible damage. I'd look at it like being a tattoo artist; I won't destroy your body when you're not in a state to make good decisions.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:42 |
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What would Mansory do?
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PS9
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
06/27/2014 at 23:46 |
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Sea-DONT
PatBateman
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:46 |
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A moral quandary that I somewhat run into on a semi-regular basis ("I have money, and I want you to put it all in penny stocks", to which I reply "I'm sorry, but that's not what I do").
I would apologetically decline his business, and politely explain that modifying the vehicle the way he wants it would cause the vehicle to be dangerous at speed. It would also make me personally liable for any wreck by making the requested changes knowing this. If he does not accept an alternative setup that would keep me in good graces with my target market, then he would be sent on his way.
Because that's not what I do.
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PS9
> PatBateman
06/27/2014 at 23:47 |
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I believe this to be the opposite of what Mr. Bateman would do. But your explanation has less bodies in it, so I like it more.
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PatBateman
> PS9
06/27/2014 at 23:49 |
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Mr. Bateman would invite him up to listen to some Huey Lewis.
mcseanerson
> PS9
06/28/2014 at 00:41 |
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Dude rolls into the shop and says "Yo dawg, I need you to slap some 44s on this bitch."
I put on my best xzibit face and tell him we gonna pimp his ride and to check back in a week.
Quickly my team of master artisans goes to work and procures and MGB and an old Ford V8 and toss it together with some 3d printed bodywork. We perform the requested donk and even throw on some whistletips. Dude is so happy with the work he drives away in his Ferrari as the wheels make it seem like the car is floating on some ridiculous cloud made of giant wheels.
Soon as he's gone we take off in the real Ferrari and look for some sweet jumps while we queue the John Williams.
Bandit
> PS9
06/28/2014 at 00:58 |
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I just do what I do when my grandfather proposes ideas for "fixing" his stellar shape all original '46 International truck. Say that I personally wouldn't do such a thing and mention that it would be a shame to do whatever needs done. So far it has worked as I've prevented a paint job, drilling holes for a rear view mirror, cutting the dash for a radio, new glass, painting the engine, and removing the various oil change stickers that have been on the truck since the 50s.
Mark - Sixpots None The Richer
> PS9
06/28/2014 at 11:01 |
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I'd take the car and the money. As always I'd make sure to do a good job to satisfy the customer. What he wants isn't my problem, the quality of the result however is.
So when someone adresses the horrible crime I committed to the car, I can at least say with confidence: "That's what someone wanted and paid me good money to do. And I did it right! Not liking it personally doesn't mean that I'm not proud of the quality of the build!"