- Jennie Johnson’s classic car restoration stalled for six years at Wasatch Customs.
- Numerous customers face similar delays; Utah fined the shop $27,500 for undelivered services.
- Owner Mark Lambert cites part shortages; Johnson retrieved the unfinished car via tow truck.
Layton — After a Millcreek woman and her husband paid a Layton restoration shop over $16,000 for an engine swap on their classic Pontiac, and nearly six years later, she’s still waiting for the car to be done. Worried she’s being taken for a ride, she decided to Get Gephardt.
“He decided he wanted to have a Pontiac engine put in it,” Jennie Johnson said of what fueled her husband, Len’s, decision to send his 1938 Pontiac to a shop.
Delays set in
Len Johnson paid Wasatch Customs $16,200 to replace the car’s old Ford engine, a total that included credit for that old engine. But Jennie said delays plagued the project almost from the start.
“There were different reasons of why they weren’t able to complete the car,” she said…