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Eyes down, look in and apologies for the modern content. If this is not a good thing on here please remove thread and accept my apologies...http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=227297Things start livening up a fair bit later on so settle in for a long and sometime astonishing read.

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I tried hang myself POG after page 4, but I couldn't get anybody to kick the chair away. However I'll make one up :

 

Mitsy aftermarket expert offering service more expensive than RALIART THEMSELVES runs out of men with no kids nearing 40, wanting to waste money on cars they are scarred to THRASH THE GONADS off.

 

Alledgedly, my sympathies if there is a real heart tuggung tale on page 35.

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What a load of piss. Reminds me of the drivel you read on the Pistonheads forums, like that guy in Jersey who found the WWII tunnel behind his house - 60 pages of "You the man", "Tunnels R0xOrZ", etc... :roll:You generally tend to lose the will to live after the first two or three pages of this type of thing.

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Anyone car to offer a synopsis... CBA to read 47 pages of internet waffle

Company employ manager. Manager steals money. Company sack manager. Company goes tits up. Directors decamp to related company. Lots of Evoheads out of pocket. The End.
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One (supposedly) 37 large out of pocket after giving the company his Evo and leaving it with them to be tuned up or whatever the do. When the owner eventually thought on to go and see how they'd spent his money he found a car with no engine, no box, no interior, other bits missing plus a rusty roll cage welded in and damage to the bodywork. Some parts of the engine were in Australia at a tuning company who subsequently sold them because the garage in England didn't pay their bills. I have to say it beggars believe you'd chuck a garage 37 big ones in advance, never mind leaving the car there for months and not checking on it.Anyway the garage in question who didn't have a clue what their manager was doing (draw your own conclusion from that) have now set up round the corner somewhere apparantly.

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this is why i buy 400euro shitters rather than 30K dick extentions :lol:

Spot on. Unless you're going to race one on a track a lot is there actually any point spending thousands on some tuning kit to take it to 450bhp or whatever, not to mention drainpipe exhausts and stupid spoilers?
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Sad stuff, despite what these fellas choose to spend their wedge/loans on (one man's trash, etc...) it's still no fun to be shafted when you've paid out.Similar story happened here recently when the local Honda dealer went belly-up, half a dozen blue rinsers lost their money because the robbin' bastids took it and didn't pay Honda UK for the motors, so the transporter loaded them up and took off back to Swindon. Haven't heard how that one ended, but the showroom has been taken over by another franchisee.

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So, some guy hands over his car + £37k to a garage, leaves it without checking on progress for several months then goes back to find that the garage, his car and his money have all vanished?Would this be a case of the old saying "Fools and their money are soon parted" be appropriate then?

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There is surprisingly little protection against this kind of thing and anyone thinking they'll get their money back as a creditor are very optimistic. By the time the priority creditors (taxman etc.) have got their share, there is usually nothing left. Setting up a "phoenix" company from the remnants of the old one is a well-known practice and perfectly legal unless pushed to its limits, bit of a kick in the teeth for anyone owed money by them though.To sum up - never put money into a business you can't afford to lose.

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Yup, Company law is not strong enough to punish folk who do this kinda thing on a regular basis - and it does happen (not just in the car industry), lots. Happens an awful lot in the building contractor industry, my dad's been on the receiving end of it (as an employee rather than a director owed wages etc) a few times.Mr Lobster - you're quite correct, if the facts that are stated are true, i.e. fella pays the full wedge of £37k upfront and does not make regular inspections of work done for months, he is a fool - regardless of how good a reputation this RC lot have. A sensible person would not do this...so it does beg the question as to how this has arisen. That said, however foolish this person was, still doesn't make what RC have done right - but agreed he should have been more vigilant.

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I'm certainly not going to go in to the problems on that forumbut I knew Clive many years ago from his days at DP in Warrington, he was a top bloke and really helped me with advice etc when I first bought my 5turbo from my Mum all those years ago. Used to meet him a lot at 5t meets but lost contact many years ago. Knew he was doing something with Jap cars but thats a shocker as he was genuinley a nice guy. If I'm not mistake the Danny they are talking about I also know fron the 5t scene and he was a complete arogant tosser who thought nothing more of bigging himself up, if it's not the same Danny then apologies...

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