You guys are on the top of my list when I’m ready to rebuild my ‘72 Ford F250 Camper Special! Thanks for your transparency and the quality of your work speaks for itself.
Fat Fender Garage are my kind of people. Take pride in there work and take full responsibility for mishaps. Glad nobody got hurt . Even bigger fan after this video . Great Team !!
Main thing is nobody got hurt. As they say crap happens and things can be fixed. Thank you for sharing this. Just shows you are all human at the end of the day.
I work for a shop in NW Ohio. We had a good come up on a custom car, it had been built in the 2000's and then sat. We received the car to get it back on the road. The hood was something we didn't mess with... On the test drive the hood came up and wrecked a bunch of stuff.... It happens. We managed it and fixed a few underlying issues that we would not have seen until we had the front clip and hood off. All's well now. Happens to the best of us.
It says a lot you're willing to put this on the internet for public scrutiny. Mistakes and accidents happens, it's how it's handled that tells the story. Much respect for the transparency. 👍
Had the same thing happen with my 66 mustang back in the late 80’s. I had just put a new intake and carb on it and wanted to go test it out. Jumped on the freeway, stomped on the gas and the hood flew back. I added hood pins after that fiasco
This is like when you go see a legendary band play and you hear then mess up and you go “oh thank god, they’re human.” And then you love them even more 👍 you guys inspired me to build my 68 short bed and I just finished it and got the coyote started! And while I could only see my errors, this video reminded me that I am human and this IS my first time building this type of truck. You guys are awesome!
Part of being an engineer. Things like this happen to me almost daily. At times I think, "Can't anything ever work out?!" Fact is, things do go right on occasion the first time. Innovation and experimentation do bring on these sorts of events, but we move on.
This is unforgivable. If you are building a brand new truck, this should never happen. Unless you are ford or Chevy. Just kidding. You guys do great work and glad your customer was a partner and not just a “customer”. Well done sir
"If you want to be like that- I don't need you as friends" thanks for being open and honest. It shows a lot of character. And I love the attitude.
Hats off for doing that. I know as a business owner when an accident happens the owner eats it.
A man told me once,people won't judge you by the mistakes you make, but how you handle your mistakes . You handled it well!
You guys are on the top of my list when I’m ready to rebuild my ‘72 Ford F250 Camper Special! Thanks for your transparency and the quality of your work speaks for itself.
Fat Fender Garage are my kind of people. Take pride in there work and take full responsibility for mishaps. Glad nobody got hurt . Even bigger fan after this video . Great Team !!
Main thing is nobody got hurt. As they say crap happens and things can be fixed. Thank you for sharing this. Just shows you are all human at the end of the day.
I work for a shop in NW Ohio. We had a good come up on a custom car, it had been built in the 2000's and then sat. We received the car to get it back on the road. The hood was something we didn't mess with... On the test drive the hood came up and wrecked a bunch of stuff.... It happens. We managed it and fixed a few underlying issues that we would not have seen until we had the front clip and hood off. All's well now. Happens to the best of us.
You got the vehicle running and didnt open the hood? Impressive.
You have to give respect to the guy that takes full responsibility of his mistakes. Owning your mistakes makes you a stand up guy.
It says a lot you're willing to put this on the internet for public scrutiny. Mistakes and accidents happens, it's how it's handled that tells the story. Much respect for the transparency. 👍
Had the same thing happen with my 66 mustang back in the late 80’s. I had just put a new intake and carb on it and wanted to go test it out. Jumped on the freeway, stomped on the gas and the hood flew back. I added hood pins after that fiasco
This is like when you go see a legendary band play and you hear then mess up and you go “oh thank god, they’re human.” And then you love them even more 👍 you guys inspired me to build my 68 short bed and I just finished it and got the coyote started! And while I could only see my errors, this video reminded me that I am human and this IS my first time building this type of truck. You guys are awesome!
Right on dude
Made me feel sick for you! I like how you tried to reach out a catch it.
💩 happens it's how you deal with it I wouldn't hesitate to get my truck from your shop
Add a safety latch chain it a must with that much HP have one on my 65 F100
What a bummer! but it could have been way worse. glad everyone was alright and the truck now has a crazy story to add to it's history.
Thank you for sharing, we all never stop learning, I think accepting errors make us better,
As much as we try to be perfect we’re not, I have a lot of respect for you and the guys at your shop 👍😁
Wow, thank you
Bad things happen to good people. Glad everyone was safe it could have been a lot worse
Keep up the good work. Do worry about what people say .
Accidents always happen. what matters is that you learn from them.
Part of being an engineer. Things like this happen to me almost daily. At times I think, "Can't anything ever work out?!" Fact is, things do go right on occasion the first time. Innovation and experimentation do bring on these sorts of events, but we move on.
This is unforgivable. If you are building a brand new truck, this should never happen. Unless you are ford or Chevy. Just kidding. You guys do great work and glad your customer was a partner and not just a “customer”. Well done sir
It sucks to learn from my guys a few lessons I’d rather not. But we are a team. We all succeed and falter together. Step up and move forward