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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ElrodKTPQ_89" data-source="post: 1427875" data-attributes="member: 18710">You are definitely right about him looking out for himself, which I understand. If I had been married as long as he had I would wanna do what it took to keep things afloat too I'm sure...and I'm looking out for myself too don't worry. However I do know the guy very very very well and say this with 100% confidence that I don't have to worry about him doing anything with the car or having anything happen to it while it stays there. I know it's one thing to hear someone say that over the Internet but trust me I'm picky enough with my car that it wouldn't even be at his house in the first place if I didn't have complete trust in him and the rest of his family. Also agree with this. That's why I decided to talk to him directly and ask if he would be interested in working on the car through the body shop. That way it's no longer so much of a buddy deal and it's under the "part of my job" category so his wife can't get mad over that lol. I do know a few other great painters that I'm sure would have no problem taking the car into their shop, but since he's been a part of working on the car for so long to begin with I didn't feel right to just show up and say 'hey I'm taking my car and getting someone else to finish it' without atleast giving him a shot at still doing it and getting paid for it thru work. As mentioned above I know I wouldn't have to worry about that happening at all...100% not a thought that even crosses my mind. But I get what you're saying completely and I have seen it happen before too. Right after this whole thing started, I had a copy of his key made...but it didn't always wanna work right, and he had talked about just putting new locks and knobs on the building anyways since the ones on it now are older than we are lol. Soon after is when I started working out of town so much and it just kinda fell off both of our minds. And before the whole marriage problem ordeal I haven't had to worry about not being able to get into the shop. This all came up in the last few weeks. So it's about the same situation as you except I don't physically have the key at the moment. But yea same deal otherwise, I've helped him on a ton of projects from cars to electrical and anything you can think of, and loaned each other tools  back and forth so yea I know the car isn't in the way by sitting in his shop.</blockquote>