You have to check this out, i cant belive this. Options

[Athorn]

So i was on my local racing forums..tamparacing.com and found this. www.joedono.info it has been linked to about ever car website there is. So in recape this kid went to japimprots (i think) a very respected tuner/audio/ anything shop. At first he was just having them do a simple paint job which turned into about $16,000 worth of mods. Yes you read it right $16,000. So the kid comes to pick it up a couple months later and does not want to pay..and the funny part is his 16 year old gf puts a $60.0 down payment on it lol. The shop made one mistake which was not having him sign a work order. So know the police and courts are involved. He doesnt even own the car his mom leased it for 17,000 and its about to be repoed. He has a history of scamming people and buisness and has a nice arrest record.Trust me the link is like 20 pages long but i couldnt stop reading it. You guys and gals should check it out if your bored. What a d bag. Sorry if grammer/spelling is bad im falling asleap.

This post has been edited by Athorn: Aug 12, 2008 - 12:38 AM

[Taskbot]

Kid dropped his car off at a local shop to have a paint job done. Paid his deposit on the paint job, and then left. Then he would call up and tell them to put on a kit, carbon fiber this and that, turbo install, etc. - they ask for money, he says his sponsors will cover it. When they tell him it's all done he tells them to have it washed, waxed, etc. and out front ready (probably with the idea of stealing it). It wasn't parked out front, and the kid had no money. The car is in his mom's name and he hasn't made a car payment in two months - the car is about to be repo'ed.

thats as far as I got.

To add some info to the quick summary 95CelicaST made..

Then the kids jail bait GF comes in and asks if they can pay in installments and offers a $60 deposit (insulting amount of money). So of course that doesn't happen. Then the kid starts making threats saying that the shop owner is going to go to jail and that he has a warrant for his arrest. Nothing happens.

Later on (a few days) the kid shows up with his mom and a cop and the cop tells the owner that he's not going to be arrested and he doesn't have to return the car until he is paid for his work and that his lien takes precedence over the bank's (who want to repo it).. so he moves the car to a safe area so that it does not get damaged and the interents find out and it spreads like wildfire. (thats what I got from that part of the story at least, I don't know the specifics nor do I really care to go back and read 10 pages. )

I think they were talking about auctioning it off for charity since the shop owner will probably be the owner of this Celica in the end.

This post has been edited by Taskbot: Aug 13, 2008 - 4:34 PM