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Old 21st October 2019, 07:41   #11
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Wow !! Beautiful !!
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Old 21st October 2019, 07:41   #12
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Where did you take it in Newcastle ? just so we can avoid it
He is an individual who's opinion of himself as a painter far outstrips his actual abilities.

You dare not criticise his workmanship, or he will go off on one

This character had Rick's car for four months, and did all of the actual prep and painting in two weeks, making mistake after mistake causing me to cringe.

The man is called Dave Lucas hiis forum persona was cazemi, and has a unit in Brunswick village, full of equipment he has neither paid for nor owns, and "trades" on facebook as Devilpaint.

He is nothing short of a thief and I'm ashamed to say I was taken in by his rhetoric and "pally pally" demeanour, and it was I that recommended his services to Rick in the first place, much to my no chagrin, based upon motorcycle paintwork he'd carried out.

The man owes me thousands of pounds, and has no intention of paying, in short he's a charlatan and shark.

I hope that is a realistic and reasonable assessment of the "painter" for you Jon

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Old 21st October 2019, 09:29   #13
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that does look good.

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Old 21st October 2019, 10:36   #14
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Very nice indeed, bet it was worth all the trouble you went to in getting it right.
Seems like the original “painter” is getting his just rewards as well.
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Old 21st October 2019, 10:42   #15
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Looks the bees knees Rick. Us Monograms need to stick together.
Cheers Bob yes together at the back of car parks furthest away from the entrance lol. Not that this one ever gets used to go to the shops now

Now that mines finished we'll have to get some pics together of our two at a meet some time

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He is an individual who's opinion of himself as a painter far outstrips his actual abilities.

You dare not criticise his workmanship, or he will go off on one

This character had Rick's car for four months, and did all of the actual prep and painting in two weeks, making mistake after mistake causing me to cringe.

The man is called Dave Lucas hiis forum persona was cazemi, and has a unit in Brunswick village, full of equipment he has neither paid for nor owns, and "trades" on facebook as Devilpaint.

He is nothing short of a thief and I'm ashamed to say I was taken in by his rhetoric and "pally pally" demeanour, and it was I that recommended his services to Rick in the first place, much to my no chagrin, based upon motorcycle paintwork he'd carried out.

The man owes me thousands of pounds, and has no intention of paying, in short he's a charlatan and shark.

I hope that is a realistic and reasonable assessment of the "painter" for you Jon

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I hope you at least get your equipment back from the unit Brian. He clearly can be capable of doing good work we both had seen examples of good work he'd done in the past. But with mine and others I've heard about since he clearly had a can't be bothered attitude.

If it was a proper business I would have been perusing him for my money back after I got the car back in a worse state the second time than I did the first time, but with him there was no point as you've found yourself there's no chance of getting any money back out of him. And wasn't ever going to take the car back to him again to sort it for a third time, wouldn't have him within a 100 miles of it again!

He seems to have disappeared off facebook, his profile doesn't show up no more neither does his "business" page.

But at least it's all done now and it's good enough now that Daniel has worked a miracle to fix Dave's bodges.

I guess you come across these kind of people that screw you over now and again, but ah well never let it get to me and now the car is sorted I can enjoy it.
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Very nice Rick a car to be very proud of 😎

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Old 21st October 2019, 11:35   #17
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ooh la la, looks superb Rick.
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ooh la la, looks superb Rick.
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According to the forecast it's meant to be a nice clear sunny day tomorrow, if it is I might get it out of the garage and get some proper photos of the flip in the paint
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Old 30th October 2019, 07:47   #19
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I popped around to see my former landlord at the unit........it would appear you had a excellent job completed by Painty McBadpaint.........at least in comparison to the job he turned out on the T4 VW bus

Splendid masking of the windows



Fantastic attention to detail when preparing the bodywork prior to paint




Rust? no problem I'll paint straight over the top for you sir



I bet you couldn't tell this was blue in a former life



Well you can't expect me to be bothered to do the inside any better, given the half hearted effort on the outside can you?



Now the pièce de résistance of this gorgeous makeover...........I couldn't hold the phone still for laughing...........the birdshat painted over on the roof.

It seems you are only as good as your last job in the paintwork world, and I don't think the landlord was impressed in lieu of three months rent the "finished" article

I'm taking great solace that the man who took advantage of my good nature to con me out of thousands, is being given his marching orders

All good things come to those who wait Mr Lucas, it would seem you are finally reaping the rewards of your labour

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Old 30th October 2019, 08:30   #20
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Brian, now fully understand that conversation we had in “clog land”, re the unit you had such high hopes for.

It does seem at times the bad guys outnumber the good guys.
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