I love the fact that this thread has stayed on the first page for over a month!! People need to know about Gordon. Long story short, I sent him my cases and crank for inspection last July, he checks it all out and says no problem, line bore the cases and new rod pin. Quotes me 1600 for rebuild with new topend and going through clutches. I send him a check for 1100 to get started and then send the rest of the motor and clutches to him in August. He gets parts and says all looks good cylinders are good everythings fine. We talk end of August/First of September and set a date for my to bring my chassis down for install the last weekend of September. He calls the Thursday before and says he doesn't have the cases as he sent them to indy dan. we try to set up times in October but it doesn't work out. Set a date for first weekend in Nov. He calls the Thursday before and tries to cancel. I tell him no way you said the motor is sitting on your bench it only takes a couple hours to put it together, I have motel reserved I'll be there at noon on Sunday like we planned. I show up at noon as planned and the motor is still sitting on the bench with no head on. Gordon also tells me that one of my cylinders was bad but he put "his spare" on and we'll call it even if I buy him dinner that night. I leave my sled and trailer and head into town to find the motel. About 7pm Gordon calls and says he is beat and needs to eat. He comes into my motel and I take him to dinner. I ask if the motor is in he says not yet but it is ready to drop in. I'm not very happy but tell him I have a long drive home in the morning and it needs to be ready to go by 10 am. No problem. Gordon calls at 830 the next morning and leaves message, no way he will be done, now a bolt to hold the water pump hosing is stripped. Gordon now wants me to leave the sled and mt trailer at his place and he will deliver it or meet me the next weekend. I drive straight to his shop. The motor is still hanging in the air and no where near ready to drop in. I tell Gordon that I can give him until noon but that is it and the sled WILL leave with me finished or not. I go back to town and checkout, I get back to his place about 1045 and it appears Nothing has changed. Finally about 1130 after watching him dink around with stuff for over half hour I tell him its time and start trying to round up my parts that are here, there and everywhere, even in his house!!! I drag my sled back on my trailer load boxes of bolts clutch parts and stuff in my truck. Gordon then hands me two invoices the original for the agreed 1600 ( even though the work was FAR from complete) and another one for 500+ I gave Gordon another check for 500 to settle the agreed on price (even though work was not done) and told him to pound sand on the made up invoice. I am VERY thankful I did not leave my sled and trailer there like he wanted!!! This is the highlighted version, luckily I got my sled back even if in pieces. One other quick note when I was rounding up nuts and bolts he could not find a couple bolts for the carb boots so he took them off of a sled outside, he said it was his sled but who really knows. I have lots of pics of the condition that my stuff was returned in and a long list of missing and broken things but I will keep those to myself for a while in case Gordon decides to crawl out from under a park bench and sue me for his made up invoice
