Quote from: bosco on July 23, 2008, 12:15:24 PM
- those guys are down the street from me (san jose vespa). They are good guys.

I hope so, 'cause they've got my tank and fender now! 
I chatted with Rob (?) on the phone a couple times. Agree, he's a nice guy, very tolerant of me giving him the seventh degree over the phone.

Just make sure it doesn't come back looking like this:

 

I know! I feel like I should tell them, No flames! No flames!! Just plain red. Du-ca-tee red.

hey!  What's wrong with flames !!

Quote from: Kaveh on July 24, 2008, 09:35:42 AM
hey!  What's wrong with flames !!

On my li'l red 750, everything.  I'd never be able to show my face at the 'geist again....

My bf (Harley owner, no flames) jokingly suggests maybe just a little tiny skull or two.... or how about a pilot light instead of an actual flame. 

Quote from: duqette on July 24, 2008, 10:46:40 AM
On my li'l red 750, everything.  I'd never be able to show my face at the 'geist again....

My bf (Harley owner, no flames) jokingly suggests maybe just a little tiny skull or two.... or how about a pilot light instead of an actual flame. 

My bike is a li'l 750 too 

yer diggin' yerself a big hole!   

Quote from: Kaveh on July 24, 2008, 03:47:19 PM
M<Y bike is a li'l 750 too 

Yeah, but the flames give you 3, maybe 4 miles an hour on her bike 

Quote from: desmoquattro on July 24, 2008, 04:29:09 PM
Yeah, but the flames give you 3, maybe 4 miles an hour on her bike 

which we all know is equal to at least 13 hp  [moto]

Quote from: Kaveh on July 24, 2008, 03:47:19 PM
My bike is a li'l 750 too 

yer diggin' yerself a big hole!   

Just hand me a shovel, there's no limit to how deep I could go....

I think flames and chrome and Louis Vitton seats and the like are best left to heavily customized, metal tank, V-twins...

Quote from: desmoquattro on July 24, 2008, 05:46:58 AM
Just make sure it doesn't come back looking like this:

GAHHHHH!!!! MAKE IT STOP!! IT'S BURNING!!!!

i would trust a harley paint and body shop ... after all, if their work is sub-standard, i am pretty sure their typical customer shoots and/or stabs first, then files a complaint with the BBB 

Well heck, that sort of bike is a garage queen, so the paints gotta be good. 

Quote from: johnc on July 25, 2008, 04:03:57 PM
i would trust a harley paint and body shop ... after all, if their work is sub-standard, i am pretty sure their typical customer shoots and/or stabs first, then files a complaint with the BBB 

Or sues, since the ones that aren't thugs are almost always lawyers.

Update!

Nichols just called me this morning to tell me that Old School Customs is now saying they can't pull the dent on the tank.

Something about the metal is too thin we can't do it blah blah blah blah....

<sigh>

Bobby Keith is "booked."

Who else does tanks?

Norman Engineering in Oakland does the leaky tank repair but might give them a call if they do the dent repair.