sigtauenus
Active Member
I just off the phone with Gary the Tachman.
He just finished calibrating all my instruments, quartz conversion on the clock, did some minor refacing on the red line on the speedo, and rebuilt the trip odometer which was jammed up.
When he was assembling the cluster, he went to install the trip odometer knob and thought it looked funny, then pushed on it and it was jamming up the trip again. He told me I have the wrong knob and the knob was what was jamming up the trip odometer.
I bought the knob from "Fast Freddie" for $75 back in March '98 at the Pensacola MCA show. I remember paying that because it was a lot of money at the time for me, and he told me it was the correct knob and hard to find. At the time I wasn't using the trip at all because of not having a knob.
So for the past 10 years or so that I've been on the forums, and hearing about all the terrible stories about guys getting burned by Fast Freddie, I thought I got lucky with the couple parts I bought from him.
Turns out that wrong knob cost me a $75 repair, so I'm out $150 total, have a knob to an unknown vehicle, and the correct knob is now available reproduction for like $17, which I'll be ordering shortly from NPD.
So add me to the long list of guys who go screwed by Freddy at Mustang Masters.
He just finished calibrating all my instruments, quartz conversion on the clock, did some minor refacing on the red line on the speedo, and rebuilt the trip odometer which was jammed up.
When he was assembling the cluster, he went to install the trip odometer knob and thought it looked funny, then pushed on it and it was jamming up the trip again. He told me I have the wrong knob and the knob was what was jamming up the trip odometer.
I bought the knob from "Fast Freddie" for $75 back in March '98 at the Pensacola MCA show. I remember paying that because it was a lot of money at the time for me, and he told me it was the correct knob and hard to find. At the time I wasn't using the trip at all because of not having a knob.
So for the past 10 years or so that I've been on the forums, and hearing about all the terrible stories about guys getting burned by Fast Freddie, I thought I got lucky with the couple parts I bought from him.
Turns out that wrong knob cost me a $75 repair, so I'm out $150 total, have a knob to an unknown vehicle, and the correct knob is now available reproduction for like $17, which I'll be ordering shortly from NPD.
So add me to the long list of guys who go screwed by Freddy at Mustang Masters.
