Very amicable resolve. thanks to all parties. 1 car back with its owner.
great result.
Hurrah!
On 10/01/2012 17:58, mark1971 wrote:
yes eddie, you are on the case because i asked you.
i'll fill in from here lol
i was the 1 who had it listed on ebay!
i ended the listing on ebay yesterday as i thought i would give 1 last
go at finding the original owner!
i emailed eddie yesterday asking if he could help in finding the owner
as we had nothing to go on apart from the build No.
anyway, after speaking to eddied this morning he pulled out the
paperwork for build No. 330 and low and behold the owners details
where there and correct!
well they must have been as within 30 mins a lovely lady named pam
calls me to say the car was hers,i aske her story and basically its as
follows-
she and her husband purchased the kit, it was taken to a auto
electricians and then to my mates garage which her husband had
organised and he talked with my mate (daz) that was the last daz had
seen of her husband and the last pam had seen of her car..she had a
buisness (the number left in the car) which then went tits up! hence
no one could be contacted on that number and no other details left!
then she went through a very messy divorce! and guess what? her
husband would not tell her where the car was and he never came back!
so 6 years later, here we are!! anyway, i told pam how i was going to
sell it on ebay because as as far as we where concerned the car was no
longer wanted? she said i couldn't really as she was the registered
owner and i said well you owe daz 6 years storage then.(may i also add
this was a very friendly chat) she just laughed as did i,she said she
was now bankrupt and a single mom but still wanted the car back but
could not afford the storage charges which daz had every right to. so
cut it a bit short i called daz and and told him of pams situation,
between us (me the middle man calling them both) daz as now accepted a
1 off payment of £400 from pam . which may i add "He did not have to
accept", as there could of been a real case to chase for the full
storage costs which he had every right to do..and as a gesture of
goodwill i have got daz to drop the car off tonight for her f.o.c and
i will be going along too so i can say hello as she seems a lovely
lady. pam is over the moon to be getting the car she thought she would
never see again back and daz ios happy to get shut of the damn thing!
and i'm happy cos iv'e earned a drink out of it from daz...:)
not such a bad bloke after all is he tonyv? and also, no storage fee's
where mentioned at the time as the car was supposed to have the work
done and gone! end of.
mark
On Jan 10, 8:57 am, Eddie<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All
Ok, just to let you all know I am dealing with this now so please do
not approach this car.
Sorry but I just can not say any more at this time, except to say I am
on the case.
Will update you all later
Eddie
On Jan 9, 2:14 pm, "Jim Hearne"<[email protected]> wrote:
This happens surprisingly often.
The garages are allowed to charge storage charges and allowed to keep the
car if the bill isn't paid.
If there's a dispute about the price of work that drags on the storage
charges soon build up to the point where the original owner gives up on the
car.
I was given a Peugeot 205 GTI minus an engine for free after it had sat at a
friends garage for 10 years with the owner refusing to pay for performance
engine work that cost more than he expected.
I bought a s/h 50 standard engine off ebay and filled in the form at the
Post Office saying i had bought the car with no V5.
Used it with no problems until a year later when it was written off when it
hit a Ford Ka turning the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
Another friend with an Audi garage has had a couple of cars with similar
stories, he's got one at the moment that they did work on, tried to contact
the owner to say it was done and couldn't get hold of him.
They've now had it around a year and there has been no contact from the
owner at all so they are just going to sell the car, as like the Quantum the
storage charges now outvalue the car.
Jim
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From: "TonyV"<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:32 PM
To: "Quantum Owners Group"<[email protected]>
Subject: [Quantum Owners] Re: Anyone here 'lost' their 2+2?
It does look to have a lot of potential to become a very nice car.
But it's a strange story. Who actually owns it - the "friend", the
person who entrusted it to him, or the ebay seller?
It's all very well to say "it belongs to me now", but does it? Could
a buyer end up completing it, only to have a visit from the plod and
the car repossessed and returned to its real owner.
The 32000 storage charge suggests to me that the "friend" isn't a
very good person to be doing business with.
I doubt that the cost of storage was mentioned up front, or agreed to
by the original owner, or actually revealed until it had accrued quite
a large sum in return for zero work. 5000 per year for storage
sounds a lot. At that rate, completion probably became financially
impractical after just a few months, even if the work could be done
for free.
I also wouldn't underestimate the cost of completing it. He hasn't
mentioned whether it would need an IVA test, for example.
I think it probably would - so add at least another 500 to the costs.
TonyV.
On Jan 8, 10:02 pm, jin<[email protected]> wrote:
looks pretty well finished too, you'd think they'd have missed it?
On Jan 8, 9:15 am, "MattWilson(Q2-412)"<[email protected]>
wrote:
Just came across this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QUANTUM-2-2-KIT-CAR-UNFINISHED-PROJECT-LIKE...
Item no140677363872on Ebay if the link doesn't work for any reason.
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