Even though Dan has his own race team (Speedtrap Racing), his car comes from one of our semi-faithful crew. Vee is the
former owner of Dan's current racecar, a 1993 Ford Probe GT. The car is currently being built, much has been done.
WARNING!!!
Anyone that is thinking of going to East Coast Creations on Rte 125 in Brentwood NH shouldn't. These guys are
a bunch of hacks and thieves. They overcharged Dan for the work they did & never did the work they were supposed to. The
work they did do was half-assed and sloppy.
The car was brought to them late January. They were given a list of things to do, in order of priority. They were
quick to tear down things, but that was it. Dan made many visits & calls to East Coast trying to get news & information
about the progress. Most of the time he didn't find anyone around. When he did get ahold of someone he was given excuses
and lies about waiting on/ordering parts.
The car was supposed to go to Affordable Welding,
less than a mile up the road, in early March. It took 2 weeks of phone calls, then Dan had his Uncle (Paul's
Towing of Epping NH 603.679.5512) just show up and take the car with his ramp truck. It spent just
over a week at Affordable Welding where an AWESOME cage was put in. Find
AffordableWelding's phone number on the home page. I highly recommend this place for any welding work.
The car was shipped back to East Coast Creations on March 28. It needed to be DONE and picked up on April 1st
(they were given that date as the LATEST it could be done). They made excuses again, the car wouldn't be
ready. They were given an extention until Fri April 7. I was to go up there with my car trailer after work, but Dan called
me to tell me that they STILL weren't ready. They asked us to wait until Saturday (the car
was supposed to be at a tech day in Walpole Mass on Sat!!). Dan called the Brentwood Police and an officer advised him on
a few things. The officer also made a visit to East Coast Creations to let them know that Dan, the customer, was VERY
upset.
Dan, Ganoe & I (along with crew cheif Bailey) agreed to meet at East Coast around 2PM Saturday.
That should leave them enough time, right? Wrong. We got there and they wanted us to wait. It wasn't ready. How could they
NOT be ready??? We did a quick visual inspection of the car. The interior was painted,
including the roll cage (we told them to NOT paint the interior way back when they first
got the car). Very little was done. The motor was still apart. This time the Brentwood Police Cheif made a visit. East
Coast was given until 7PM, so we had to kill time until 7PM now. The Cheif said that he would have his officer at East Coast
at 7PM to make sure things happened.
Meanwhile I took a spin by Affordable Welding
to pick up some sheet metal Dan ordered. East Coast called them the day before asking if Dan was 'paid up'. We're not sure
why that would matter to East Coast, but East Coast did ask Affordable to lie to us about the car. He would not. He told me
that the car sat outside for 3 days after it came back from his place and didn't move (hmm, that's
why they painted the interior, the cage started to get rust on it from sitting out in the snow/rain for 3 days!!!).
We got back to East Coast at 7PM, they wanted us to wait until 8PM. What could they be doing?? Time was up!!!
We said "No, now!!" They said it would be about 20 minutes. 30 minutes in the officer went inside to tell them to move
it. The garage opened & FINALLY they gave us the o.k. to move the car. Tha dash board was 'hacked' back into the car.
Obviously they didn't care how it went in around the cage. The trailer was set up so all we had to do was push it up.
As far as we know, we have all the bits and pieces of the car. If not, Dan has a parts car to scavenge from. We brought the
car & trailer up to Dan's.
The next day, Sunday, I went up to Dan's and took a daylight look at the car. Those PUTZBAGS got overspray on the outer body panles!!! I took a closer look at the 'hacked' in dash. We
should be able to get it secure enough.
The timing belt, CV joint, brake line leak STILL aren't done. Those were the "need
to do first" items we told them to do. Now with less than 2 weeks until the school at NHIS, it's doubtfull that the car will
be ready.