I've called roughly once every three weeks and I've heard "hopefully this week" about 80% of the time. The reason has oscillated between the painter not being happy with the finish, him being underwater, and now him having trouble matching the color. I suspect my shop is telling me everything he's being told by the painter, but the shop owner is pretty laid back so I doubt he's yelling at the painter every week to get it done. The car is sitting in my mechanic's shop, so I'm sure he's sick of moving it around to work on various cars. There's telltale speedway green in their facebook posts, so at least I know he hasn't parted the car out.
edit: The one thing I think I failed to mention is I'm having the shop replace the stock headlights with Cibies. I'm not sure if/when I'll go bigger, but at least I'll have matching lights (and lights that don't suck) when I do.
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edit: The one thing I think I failed to mention is I'm having the shop replace the stock headlights with Cibies. I'm not sure if/when I'll go bigger, but at least I'll have matching lights (and lights that don't suck) when I do.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth