OK, the mission was not a complete success. I have just spent 20 hours in the car trying to locate my SRT rims. Here's what happened. I sent all 4 of my rims to the Chrome Connection in Chickamauga GA back on 11-27-07. At that time they told me it would take 6 weeks. No biggie the vehicle is at Bryan's shop stripped out any way. Come the first week of January I start calling to find out how things are going and no one can give me any information. They said call back in a week or so. I did. This time the phone just rings. No answer :dribble: Last week I had Bryan and Builder Bill start calling to see if any one will answer their call. Nope! Yesterday I get an e-mail from Builder Bill, as he filled out a information form on their web site, however it was just an automated reply. Bill graciously offered to drive over there to see what was up, but I let him know this was a job for BJB. Covert operation so to speak :fart: At 1:00 pm yesterday afternoon I left for Chickam..whatever the place is called. I arrived around 9:30 pm. When I pulled into the lot the place looked like a dump. Containers of chemicals are all over the yard and the door to half of the shop is open and the light are on. So I stick my head in and yell "is anyone there?" I notice a haz mat emergency contact list. Well, apparently this list ended up in my car :shock: It has the owners home address and all kinds of phone numbers So I plug Shane's address into the navigation system in my Ford Edge and off I went. At this time it is about 10:30 pm and here I am pounding on someone's door. "I'm looking for a Shane O'Neal" I said. What the hell am I thinking, ponding on someone's door in BFE or should I say BFG in the middle of the night Anyhow, the guy who answers appears to be more frightened then I am. "No Sir, there is no Shane here" I must of looked official or something, Sir? Anyhow, it looked like an episode of cops, the first guy had the wife beater T shirt, the other fat guy (still wearing 40" waist pants with a big dunlap belly) now they are both trying to convince me I have the wrong house. Good enough for me, I'm out of here! So I return back to the plant. On my way back I stop at the gas station / general store to put together a Magiver starter kit, flash light, screw drivers, paper clips.. OK I didn't get paper clips. Once there I get out the contact list. I start low on the list, Bubba is listed as a alternate. Buba answers and I asked him if he still worked for the Chrome Connection and he said he did not, he asked what this was about and I told him if you don't work for the Company you don't need to worry about it and I hang up. More on Bubba later. I have Shane's cell phone, and of course no answer, so I called his wife and what do you know, she answers. I told here that there was a situation at the plant and you or Shane needs to come over promptly. She asked who is this, I did not answer, I said I have another call and please hurry. So with my work don I drive across the street and park on a hill. At this time it was just after 11:00pm. I figure there should be some action by 11:30 pm, so I will just wait. Yep, around 11:28 a car pulls up and drives into the plant. I drive from across the street to pull in behind and find out it is a Walker County Sheriff. Oh no As I pull in another Sheriff pulls in behind me. As I get out and as I start explaining the situation, here comes a old diesel pick-up Guess who? Shane O'Neal. Now we are getting somewhere. And to top things off 1 more Sheriff shows up. So if anyone is keeping score it is 4 good guy's to 2 bad guy's. Yes 2. I forgot to mention, Bubba was with Shane leasantry: "What's this all about" yells Shane. I jump in his face and say you have 4 of my wheels since November and I hope to hell you can give them to me! He gets in my face and says "You freaked out my wife" I said "I just drove for 9 hours and my A s s hurts, so were even! Shane says he has my wheels and proceeds to return back to his truck for something. Meanwhile, Bubba was not happy and ask "How did you get my number?" You know the best defense is a good offense so I say "forget how I got your number, where are my wheels!" Bubba forgot all about his question When I looked over at Shane he had a folder and papers and shows me that a Company that he sent my wheels to in Texas had just shipped the wheels back to him yesterday. So I yell "why the hell didn't you call me and tell me that?" Just a dumb look on his face. However the law looked over the paper work and told me "it looks like you are in luck!" So, if all hold true I should have my chromed wheels by Friday :headspin: Now for the funnest part of the night, after all this is done, one of the Sheriff's asked me, "so what kind of car are these going on?" I told him "a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8" and the other Sheriff said, and it sounded just like the Judge in My Cousin Vinny, "these are going on what?" lol. I guess you had to be there!
dude - this is one of the funniest stories i have heard in a loooooong time!!!! hahahahaha awesome man, simply awesome!!! one question i would have asked.....why the phuk did they send them to texas?????
Awesome! There's no stopping a possesed man from reaching his goal............and this includes slicing throats along the way to achieve it. You just improved Shane & Bubba's customer service because now they will be little leary of holding onto people goods for that long. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
hahaha dude thats CRAZY!!!! you are THE MAN!!!! awesome story bro, i wish it was longer! (not for you of course but for me the reader!)
SWEET! The good ol South....................Well glad to hear your getting your rims after only 4 months! :beer:
OMFG That is AWSOME B... lmao I need to buy you a beer or 20...lol The BEST damn MCGiver story I have ever heard.... Way to get those IDIOTS to the plant.
i can only imagine the call right after the "plant emergency" call..... "hey bubba, best git ur azz down the shop....we gots sum issues...."
Man that is awesome you boys from Michigan dont mess around glad you didn't take Markus because once they were in sight that hilltop would of been showing some muzzle flare-LOL. So are the wheels coming to you or back to "BUBBA" and where in Texas were they being done, funny they did not tell you they were being sub'd out.
I may still need the services of Markus:domotwak: They were sent to Chrome Pros plating? The next few days will be interesting.
http://www.chromeprosplating.com/ They are located in New Bruanfels (Schlitterbauhn-WOHOO),TX we have members in Austin and San Antonio who can pay them a visit if need be. They also have an EBAY store so hopefully your wheels do not show up there-LOL, well that's not funny really. I would have asked for a tracking number to call his bluff or at least call chrome pro plating to see if they actually did work on your wheels.
He did get all that info and has talked to chrome pros. Problem is they were sent out from chrome pros before he could have it shipped directly to Michigan. So now they are due to be delivered today and more fun will begin...
Just make sure you get a written warranty with them. Moe had a verbal and has had nothing but trouble with his guys. He's had to take them back a time or two and now they are trying to screw him. They definitely look sweet though!
The final chapter OK, here is what has gone down the last couple of day's. As I mentioned previously, I drove through the night and returned to work on Tuesday around 11:00am. I did some running around work stuff and got back to my office around 4:30pm. As I go through my voice mails, I come across one from Shane :hmm: He says that his father in law (Bubba) still does not know how I got his phone number :surprise: He must have had time to think about it from Monday night and realized I did not answer his question. I'm going out on a limb here (no pun intended) but I think Shane's family tree does not have many branches Anyway, he said that he thinks I was in his building and I damaged one of his doors and he will hold my rims hostage! :aggressive: I said "I know you cant spell it but they call that extortion. (ok I had to use spell check too) He said " I don't care what they call it!" I said "I did not damage any door and that I know what door you are talking about and it is completely rusted!" I continued "I bet when I call OSHA and they do some air samples it will show corrosive chemicals in the air and that is why the door is falling apart! And another thing, I know someone in the EPA and they will have a field day around here." Actually, what I did not mention was that I knew a guy in high school with the initials of EPA:shifty: I think he was getting worried. The way it was left was Shane said to call him on Thursday (today) and he will let me know what he will do. Great! More waiting. So this morning I felt like a day trader. I have the UPS website up on my browser with the tracking number of the rims. Hitting the refresh button every 10 minutes or so. Bingo! 10:46am they were delivered. Game on! I was on the phone with UPS and Freight quote.com trying to figure the quickest way to get them out of there. UPS was just plain no help. Around 12:30pm I decided to call the plant. Someone answered, I think it could have been Bubba's cousin twice removed! I said "This is Brian and I understand my rims were delivered this morning and I want to make arraignments to get them picked up" He said "I have to talk to Shane" I said "I already tried to call him, I think everything is good to go" He did not go for that. He said "call back later" Boy, we have all heard that before, right? I'm getting worried that I have run out of time to get them out of Chima.. whatever today. So I call back around 2:00pm and whoever answered said "Shane said get them out of here" :drugs: So, I immediately call Freight quote.com and I end up getting Stacey, the same person who helped me on Tuesday to track down the Texas Chrome vendor. What's the chance of that? We were both amazed! She asked "How is Bubba" I said "we really have no time to talk about him. I need your help" I wanted to talk to a person, rather than book this shipment over the internet without verifying that the rims will be picked up today. Stacey filled in all the shipping information for me and once the quotes came up she called the dispatcher from the freight company to verify that it will be picked up today. She briefly told them the story and USF Holland assured us they would rescue my rims today :dance2: What a week. It looks like I will have the rims on Monday !!!!!
glad to hear it! worst case scenario: i have a remington 700 in .30 -06 with a nice flat trajectory out to about 1000 yards and i am in fact a former marine sniper. i will get you your fucking rims no matter how many heads i need to make grape juice out of. by the time your friend Erik Peter Anderson gets there, all they will be finding on their corroded doors will be bubba and shane DNA
Shit dude. . . I wish I would have known about all this. I grew up near their location. I currently live in Chattanooga, TN. I talked to those guys several years ago about chroming some wheels for me, but at the time they weren'y capable of applying chrome to such large items. IF you need me to do anything, please PM me. I'll do anything I can for ya.
