Now all she's got to do is get somebody to finish it !
Jim
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From: "mark1971" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:49 PM
To: "Quantum Owners Group" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Quantum Owners] Re: Anyone here 'lost' their 2+2?
> Car is now back with pam!
> she is a very nice lady and we all had a good rattle and a giggle lol
> just hope her ex doesn't come looking for half of the car now lol
>
> On Jan 10, 10:20 pm, Ian Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Indeed, it sounds to have worked out nicely.
>>
>> On 10 Jan 2012, at 22:12, Gary <[email protected]>
>> > 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-PROJEC
>> >>>>>>>T-LIKE...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Item no140677363872on Ebay if the link doesn't work for any
>> >>>>>>> reason.
>> >>>>>
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