is integrity, or lack thereof. When you say you're going to do something, you do it, period. And that's how a good reputation is established. I'm in year 3 of a promised one year build with Ben on a 1969 Charger. It has been a complete test of patience for me. Capabilities were misrepresented. I'm a reasonable guy but I've got a Wall Street background and I expect attention to detail and professional delivery. I actually think Ben is a decent guy and a capable car builder with some real issues: namely, trying to do to much on his own and with a lack of organization and forthrightness.
After 3 years of the same thing, my frustration level stays pretty high. It is my hope that at some point the project will be finished at the level that was promised and I'll forget about all this. But I have no receipts from any money I've paid, many unkept promises to provide those receipts and a pretty consistent passive-aggressive response from Ben (ignoring phone calls) when I won't go along with his way of doing things - for instance, he tells me he's waiting 2 weeks for Air Ride to approve his vendor license so I can pay them for their system to install on my car. Later he says he's got a guy who wants to trade a new Air Ride for some work and then he'll install it on my car and I'll pay him. I said no thanks bro. I wouldn't mind doing this if I had trust that everything was presented factually. I don't have that, still waiting on a receipt for $1500 paid in June to finalize paint. I just want facts and brutal honesty in the people I deal with.
I don't think I'm getting that to the 100% level. Maybe I'm too demanding and everyone cuts corners but it's not my thing. Again, I'm not here to slam the guy but overall I have had a bummed out feeling about this project for an entire three years and it was supposed to be a fun build in my mind.
