Well I guess I was not alone. I brought in my Camaro to Alice at muscle car city about a year ago to get it painted. I took out all the interior myself and most of the outside trim (bumpers, emblems, window trim etc). She told me she could do the job in 3-4 weeks for $4500 if I paid her for it upfront. I know that was dumb on my part!!! I left the car and called her 2 weeks later to she how it was going but she never returned my call so I drove down there to see what was going on. Front gate was locked but there were people working? Finally after standing there for 15 minute a guy comes to the gate and says Alice was not there. I explained that I was a customer and wanted to look at my car. He says he does not have the key for the gate. 2 minutes later Alice calls me upset and asks why I didn't let her know I was coming. I told her I did but you never called me back so I decided to stop by on my lunch hour. She then tells me that I will have to come back tomorrow.
I showed up the next morning and my car had not been touched so I asked her what the story was. She says don't worry it will get done on time.
Long story short I had nothing but problems after that. 3 months later I pick up my car. The paint job looked good from a distance but had a ton of dirt in the paint and a lot of orange peel. She tells me it will all come out after they wet sand it. NOT! 2 weeks later I had it wet sanded with 1000 grit paper and the paint looked horrible. All the areas that had dirt in it started showing the primer underneath.
Alice never returned my calls and I made a few trips to go see her but the gate was always locked and she was never there but her red dodge truck was there???
Since I paid her cash (which see asked for) and never got a receipt I just figured it was a lesson learned.
Stay away from:
Muscle Car City
Alice Russell
1016 1st Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701
http://www.ocmusclecarrestoration.com
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