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In all honesty you should not even be contacting him directly if you have engaged an attorney. If your attorney hasn’t told you this, then maybe look for a new attorney ?

I’d let it play out, id ask Shep for a OneK trans with core and have the attorney come up with a number for loss of car for 12+ months, aggravation, and then amend your filing to cover all these costs.

This is clearly either a gross error or fraud, with the latter being course to pierce an LLC if he is indeed structured as such. But if he’s not answering your attorney, you can just file the car, get a summary judgement and freeze his personal and business accounts. If he fights it, with the way the courts are backlogged, if you don’t agree to some type of arbitration or mitigation, I would plan on this taking years.

Sorry you are going through it, but anyone that’s built a GTR has to some degree had to deal with things like this. I remember recently someone posted Shep stage 1 rebuilds being passed off as One Ks.

So I guess the moral of the story is, document and cut your losses, pull your car out of there on a flat bed and move on as many of us have had to do over the years with this platform.

Personally if John will take it, just have it sent to him in Ohio and be done with it.

Edit : FYI last I knew removing a serial number from a transmission is illegal, id check your state laws as well as whenever his shops is.

Edit 2: Yep it’s Federal not state regulated :

1364. Altering Or Removing Motor Vehicle Identification Numbers

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[droptopp]

Sorry - skipped over the build specs.

Show up with a flat bed and the local police with your title in hand.

So many stories like this over the years. I remember one guy spending $250k over 2-3 years and picked his car up as a roller and a separate truck with boxes.

Honestly no easy way at this point. Hardest part is going to find a shop that will take it next.

Good luck.

Maybe if someone on here knows Farooq personally they can call and mediate a release for you - if I did, I would.

 

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Every shop, regardless of who and how big, has issues. Dealing with a human component always opens the door to possible mechanical, component quality, craftsmanship, etc. issues.

It’s how the shop addresses the issues that’s important.

I’m in for the info on why if Shep tracks everything with a VIN, why it was removed after he did the work on it.

Think that’s about all we need to hear at this point.