Will. Obviously our communication broke down somewhere.
From my perspective, it looks as if you started this thread to justify not paying for work I completed. You never mentioned that you told me over a month ago that you would pay for the work that was completed. I haven't been paid yet. Maybe I'm still "avoiding your phone calls?"
Just to set the record straight, I was NEVER told to stop working on the car. I WAS told that Will would pick the car up soon. When I started work on the car, I was judging the car by the way it sat. Some of the work that needed done hinged on others being completed, and I could not possibly go in the order we agreed on. Rather than call Will and wait on a return call I performed some of the work we had agreed to do beforehand, since we DID have an agreement that it all needed done anyway. Maybe MY biggest mistake was trusting Will to pay for the work anyway.
As far as the timeline is concerned, you never mentioned that YOU were the one holding up the majority of the work on the car due to the fact that I had to wait for you to straighten out the parts car before I could even get started. How far back did that put us at that point? THAT is why I told you that NO WORK had been done when you called. I could have started WAY before that if you didn't need random bullshit out of that car, but I waited on YOU for that.
I don't even have time to go into how much work I actually put into the car, due to the shoddy work that was laid down before I touched it. Spray foam and aluminum roof flashing have NO purpose in a drag car, or ANY car for that matter, especially to reinforce poor bondo work. I never cut the roof off the car or did anything to the structure, I ONLY touched the skins. It took me longer than expected to perform any of the work, and I think that we need to share the blame for the incorrect timeline.
The fact is, I did perform the work we agreed to, and I performed it well. I could not hold up my COMPLETE end of the bargain since you picked up the car. YOU know what the prices were for the work we agreed to, you even posted them in this thread. You never told me to stop working on the car, so I never did. You have yet to pay for the work I did, at the price you agreed to, even though you told me I would be paid within a month of you picking up the car. Also, any body shop you take that car to will refuse to do work over someone elses, so OF COURSE they will tell you the car needs reskinned. They want that $3500 that they know you have. If you left the car with me, the work would have been done better, and at a lower price.
When I get a chance I will post pictures of the progress of the work I did, and you will see how much you got for your $300 (or $800 if you ever pay me).