When Credit is Due!

I have had people take credit for things while I was standing right there. That's awkward. I am more of a drivetrain and suspension guy than body and paint. I have stood by while the more than one owner bragged up how he built it all himself and so and so didthe paint. I bit my tongue and didn't tell the story on how they flattened the cam at the first shop and how I found the crank index off on two throws, an intake gasket all puckered into the port smoking bluer than a worn out dump truck. The front end and brakes were a death trap. The guy that does the "dirty" side rarely gets a mention.

You have to have a sense of humor I guess.

 

Please read this. PLEASE READ THIS!!! THIS MAKES ME FEEL SO MUCH BETTER WHEN IT HAPPENS TO ME! On the paint and design side it happens to us allot. I have started matting and framing the articles that screw us over by not mentioning us. We do it as nice as the ones that do give us credit when its due. The only difference is the fact that we hang them upside down in our shop!. When we are asked why they are upside down we politely inform the person that someone forgot to give us credit for what we did on the particular car or bike. Makes us feel good and reminds our customers that if they don't want to see themselves hanging in the shop upside down they better mention our contribution.

"I am only talking about big projects and complete design Ideas. There is a Camaro in Super Chevy this month that the new owner liked the name of the car so much he had it painted on the engine covers and the stereo enclosures after he bought it. Wrong it was all conceived at lunch with one of my friends. I was trying to get them to paint the car with a tribal woodgrain and someone was a dumbass and said we could call it driftwood. Next thing you know I drew a logo on paper and the rest is history. I painted it. The body logos and everything and it is one of the reasons it is unique. But we get no mention. Looks like anouther for the wall of shame.

 

Now you know whay Boyd carved his name in almost every piece of billet he put on one of his cars. LOL


Also, having had several cars in magazines over the years that I built from top to bottom I can tell you that what gets said and told versus what makes it into print are two completely different things. In one article I built the car, took the photos and wrote the article. When it came out I only owned the car and took the photos! One of the staff writers re-wrote my entire story using about 80% of my text and took credit for the article. The funny part was that almost half of the article was written in the first person (I did this, I did that) and the rest was written in third person (he did this, he did that). Too funny.

 

When I opened my R&C and saw that Buick, two words flashed in my mind. "Steve Sellers"

Yeah, I know I first saw that car on Steve's site, but it obviously impacted me to remember it.

I know when I have someone ask me about my car, I give credit for the work I didn't do. Wild West Rod and Custom did the final body smoothing and paint, P&L did the upholstery. I cruise around with their business cards available. I paid to have that work done, and am satisfied to a point that I'm proud to spread the word around.

I've been on the other end of this too. I've had customers tell others "thats the guy who wired my car" and point to me. Sure it feels good, and it sucks when the opposite happens.

 

Your the Steve-est.Thanks for reminding us.

 

Per ABC, they're at 116,00-plus.
http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magsrdssearch.asp

 

So if these numbers are 10 times what is showing on the views column lets also consider the "pass around" numbers of a magazine which averages at least 3 for every one that goes out. All in all it's a numbers game and who cares.

 

ryan is a ruler!!!

 

Here here. R&C is stepping it up a notch.

 

Funny. I think I have said that many many times lately. The reason that car came out so rad is because Steve was involved. Hands down, no one else around could even come close to creating such insane metal work. For those of you who have not seen this car in person, you have no idea how wild some of the work is. The few of us who saw the car go together know how many layers deep the custom fab goes. I have said it many times that if it was not for Steve, that would never have made it as far as it has. And honestly I do not know who would claim to be able to do such nice work cuz in reality its not happen, not with the same style. Unfortunately for Steve there were hours and hours of work that went into finishing that car and connections were made to get it into the shows, so with the collaboration of everyone, that car made it to where it is today. I helped here and there with the final assembly, I was there for every show, I sat there in the studio watching that car get photographed, I actually filled out parts of the tech article. My name was not mentioned in there. I had people coming to me asking me to put there name in there, people who used to work at the shop, people who came after the car, and because of that I told the owner of the car that it was up to him to decide who gets the credit. I know very well where you are coming from and like everyone on here said, everyone knows who did the fancy work. I don't see anyone else's name on here. I can assure you that no one is trying to erase your name from the picture. You know you do good work, and people who know what work you do think its rad, that is what is most important. Believe me man I bring up that car and your work at least once a week so there isnt all bad talk going on. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, some people get big pieces, some small and some NONE!