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So-called "customizer" now facing jail time after taking $6,000 for restoration work.

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pokerpro

There is just no way that POS should be allowed to live. Seriously he should die ******* screaming!!! No judge no jury straight to execution!

Starfish Prime

Are those enkei win rims on there?

JungleCat

Pathetic.

the kid C6

I would cry. I would cry harder when I realized I was a bad judge of character.

Can it be saved?

belairbrian

From the pictures it looks like he just took it apart and quit. If all the parts are still around it should be fixable.

But loosing $6K will make it really hard on her pocketbook.

maybe one of the Huntsville clubs can step in and help put it back together.

MyOtherCar

I live in Huntsville and to be honest, I never heard of "Whiplash Kustoms".

the kid C6

Google.

Their Facebook page has 1437 likes and 1409 followers.

You're not going to believe this, but that canary yellow C4 is featured on their FB page.

Karp

As some of you know I just picked up a 84. if there are parts in the next few weeks that can be USPS'd in flat rate boxes from Hawaii. Please let me know. I'm going to rip the motor/tires and junk the rest.

I under stand allot can not be sent in the mail from Hawaii, yet I can rip out switched, relays what every we can do to get her back in shape.

Please let us know how we can help.

Cheers,
Karp

chatham

$100 he's a drug addict.

Greg Gore

That was my first thought also. The money probably went away quickly. He'll suffer while drying out in jail though.

FASTAZU

Sorry but no way I would have let over 2 weeks go by with out checking on the car.

ghoastrider1

That's a damn shame. Looked like he was getting it ready for paint, then stopped. Hope he has to pay back the money and go to jail. She looked like she loved that car.

FAUEE

Probably more to the story than we are seeing. It does look like he was prepping it for paint. Sounds like he got arrested for OTHER issues, and since he's in jail now, he can't finish.

Sucks for the owner, hard to know what shops you can trust nowdays. That's why I try to do as much work as I can myself.

Edv92c4

From the looks of that video from FB it has already been painted just needs reassembly.

ghoastrider1

I think your correct.. the belt line is painted

Paul Workman

I'm holding my fire, for now.

I had a conversation with the owner and friend of a recycling bitness regarding the extreme caution he has to take to prevent taking in parts w/o clear documentation tracing it back to the original owner of the car/VIN.

The subject came up when I bought a hood to replace the one on my Z that got cracked. Recycling parts from a wreck with a VIN# can be cataloged so it can be traced to the original owner. But, for example:
Say a friend buys a hood from a private party, and then decides to sell it to me. Without proper documentation, there are TWO times where the link to the original owner of the that part (hood) could be lost. Then someone, completely out of the loop (described), has a hood stolen, and word gets out that I've got a replacement hood for my car. Next thing I know I get arrested for receiving stolen property...because I can't prove the original source. (Just a hypothetical example you understand!)

Clearly, this guy was "distracted" by other projects, do doubt. But, disassembling to the extent the shop did, prepping, painting, and reassembly is going to cost way more in labor alone than the $1500 initial down pmt. So, what we don't know is the cadence of events and additional pmts. $6k for a complete - inside the door frames plus dash, etc is gonna cost a LOT of that $6k. So, that results in shortcuts like the ones we see: not too surprising, very crappy work aside!

So, I can see how the owner was trying to give a (female) acquaintance a special rate for the work. But, friendship between the boss and a client doesn't pay the bills, and that initial $1500 got used up pretty fast in labor alone. So, it isn't hard to see how the job would get put on the back burner in order to complete regular shop business; until and when there was some slack time to tinker with the paint job again - as long as additional $ was forthcoming to continue the work. (But was it?? Or did $ come trickling in over the entire period as well??)

Combine initial good intentions (for an acquaintance remember) along with some equally sloppy business practices - including receiving some undocumented parts(?), and it isn't hard to see how this tragic story unfolds.

Friendship be damned...Let the buyer beware!!!