Indeed, it sounds to have worked out nicely.
On 10 Jan 2012, at 22:12, Gary <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> 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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