Re: [Chrysler300] MetalCrafters - reply

["obiwan10" <obiwan10@xxxx>]

Someone had email'd(said that he was about to do a deal in the Northwest on upholstery fabric and wanted to be assured that he was not walking in to a pit) me in response to this email that I had previously sent out asking me the name of the upholstery manufacture who had scammed my friend referred to in the email. I spoke to this friend, turns out that the manufacturer is a major distributor of upholstery fabrics, not a manufacturer. My friend was more than pleased to give me the name of the firm. The firm is SMS and I believe he said located in Oregon. He had paid them 700.00 cash for fabric that was never delivered to him and was basically told by the owner of SMS to go kiss a brick regarding getting his money back. I have absolute faith in my friend's tale of woe. Again my friend is well known by many of you and has an excellent reputation for the quality of his work on 300's and Chryslers in general.

Anyone else out there had good, bad or indifferent dealings with this firm?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: obiwan10 
To: Chrysler 300 Club Listverver ; John Hertog 
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] MetalCrafters - reply


My friend is quite aware of MetalCrafters from previous dealings and he does not believe that he is confusing them with anyone. I showed him the photos of the prototype quarters on the website and he was immediately a skeptic. This was some 6 weeks or so ago. There also is a renown auto upholstery fabric manufacture in the Northwest US(WA) who he also has such an opinion of. Ordered and paid for up front upholstery fabric for his New Yorker and in some 3 years has yet to receive it. There are in this industry many frauds, scams and charlatans and many of our members have at one time or another been victim. In fact I suspect that most of us have been made promises that have been broken by some of these types of operatives. Incidentally my friend is located in Southern Calif and he among the best at what he does. Incidentally where is MetalCrafters located? 

Perhaps we shall know more as this quarter panel project plays out.

Roger
----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Hertog 
To: Chrysler 300 Club Listverver 
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] MetalCrafters - reply


Obiwan,

Sounds to me like your friend has MetalCrafters confused with someone else.
MetalCrafters has not, so far, manufactured repro panels or any repro parts,
for sale to the public. Rather they make one-off show cars for
DaimlerChrysler and others. They only agreed to do these panels as a favor
to D/C thanks to some serious prodding from D/C brass... more info about
the company can be found on their web site: http://www.metalcrafters.com/ .
Sure doesn't sound like flakes to me. Not that I am endorsing the quality of
their product - haven't seen any yet, nor heard from anyone who has !

John




----- Original Message -----
From: "obiwan10"


> I was told by a Auto Restorer(who many of you know) friend of mine, when I
had mentioned to him about 30 days ago that MetalCrafters had developed a
lower panel replacement for the 300 C, that these guys were flakes and that
he would believe it when he saw them, and if he saw them he would he very
skeptical of the quality.



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