U.S. Body Source

[TwiggyTheDrummer]

I wanted to warn all of you about the quality of fiberglass parts that US Body Source produces. They are located in Hampton, Florida which is about which is just south of Gainesville. I ordered a 62-66 Chevy hood for my '63 GMC way back on the 16th of December in 2008. Of course they require a 50% deposit at the time that you order for any product that needs to be produced. I figured from the first place that they just wanted you to be locked in on the hood from the beginning so that if you back out they have atleast half of your money. The 62-66 Chevy hoods cost $799 plus tax which in Florida is 7%. We payed the $427.47 down so that they would make the hood and while the order was being processed they informed us that it would be 4 weeks before we could pick up the part. This was fine because the holidays were coming up and that time of year is hectic with vacations and some company's will even close for several days for Christmas and New Years. Once the month estimate wore thin I gave them a call to find out it would be about 2 more weeks. This went on for two more sets of "two more weeks" until we agitatedly called to find out what was taking so long. We were informed that it was ready and told them that we would be up the next week to get it. On February 19th my father went and picked it up and brought it to my buddy's shop. Honestly, it doesn't look bad but the sharp, uneven edges along the inner-bottom edge and the two different types of primer screamed "POS!". This is the product that I found when I arrived (keep in mind that we had not been able to look at it in-depth yet):









A few days later my buddy and I were finally able to really have a look at it and see what all we needed to do. My buddy is a professional bodyman who has been in the bodywork business since he was a kid doing paint and body in his front yard. This is what we found :






Notice the white spots that stick out against the black seal coat. Those are where gobs of wet putty still sat to fill crappy little defects in it which is goofy because instead of little valleys, there were now small mountain peaks. And check out the unsealed patched that hardened with an outward wrinkle. Crappy Crappy Crappy.