Hurstmeister

Everyone has heard of different shop horror stories. This is mine and involves 1 other person who also has a car that was supposed to be finished by Bryan (BA Customs), aka 351coupe.

This goes back 1 year and 4 months ago. Thats how long Bryan has had mine and Tony's (aka Dr Dirt) car. Bryan came highly recommended. I had seen his previous work. Pictures and in person. He does great work. That is not in question here.

How ever. Tony and I both delivered our cars to Bryan in Jan of 2011 and paid him cash up front, approx $6000 between the 2 of us. Bryan promised to have our cars completed in a few months. Those who know will know that Bryan had some personal as well as health issues come up during the first few months while handling our cars. Despite my frustration and impatience we gave Bryan a lot of concern and time in order to get over his problems. This time has come and gone. During this time and even up to now, Bryan has failed to stay in communication with me, no phone calls, no emails, not even a text to let me know the progress of my car. The only time I ever heard from Bryan was days to weeks after I would try to contact him and he would return with more empty promises to have my car completed.

Now recently Tony (Dr Dirt) is having his own health issues which happen to be life threatening, and even now Bryan does nothing but make empty promises and zero progress on either of our cars. Tony has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment and is scheduled for surgery as I type this. More info on Tony can be found here. https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/f...pped-into.html

I have tried to get in contact with Bryan for more than a month now with no success. I can only assume that Bryan has no intention of ever completing mine or Tony's car. Here is a guy who might die before seeing his car completed and Bryan shows virtually zero empathy. I have made arrangements to bring my car to another shop to have the work done that I paid Bryan to do. I know Bryan will never pay me back.

I just want it known to all who are thinking about using BA Customs (Bryan) to do any large projects for you, to think again. This guy is unpredictable, unreliable, and has scammed us for over a year and a half with no relief in sight except to take my car some where else.

He has our cars parked out side in the weather,. unprotected, rusting and neglected all the while he parties it up, riding his bike doing wheelies across the bridge, trying to do work for everyone else except for us who have already paid him in full.

I will post this message to every media outlet, car forum, craigslist, twitter, facebook, everyone I can, so perhaps others do not share our fate.

1 year and 4 months later this is all Bryan has to show for $6000 of our money. The blue one is mine and the orange car is Tonys. Is this fair to you?









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Sincerely,

Hurst

blacksheep-1

I'm not going to get in the middle of this dispute, but if you need a trailer to pick up Tony's car, I will be glad to get it for him.
Sorry that you guys are having issues getting your car done.

Hurstmeister

I have a car trailer and I was the one who originally brought Tony's car to Bryan.

Tony is considering pulling his car and taking it to another shop as well. I wont be back in Tampa until June so nothing I can do until then. Send Tony a PM and see if he needs you to pick up his car. That would be major cool if you could do that for him.

Hurst

slowmoving1

damm this suckes for you guys.

10sec306

Sorry to hear Hurst, I hear these horror stories all the time with paint and body shops or fab shops taking forever and doing shitty work installing roll cages. And the exact reason I decided to my car myself, it may not be perfect but you dont have to deal with this kind of stuff. Good luck and I hope it all works out for you both!!

EsCoRtLvR

That sucks, but this is the exact reason I don't take cash up front for my jobs with electrical work. If you have no money invested you have no right to bitch about how much time it takes . I get them done quick, but sometimes life kicks you in the butt and jobs take a few weeks longer than expected. No way jobs should take months longer than expected though, but I guess it's no different than all these shady house contractors out there taking the money up front for the jobs then doing shotty work or no work at all.

If it's done right the shop doing the job will give you a written estimate that you agree to and sign. This way if you don't pay up when the job is done he puts a lien on the car and sues you for the balance since you are now obligated to pay.

Also, If the guy is not insured your going to have fun collecting from him.

All in all the guy is a douche for not at least following up with you guys on your cars. Good luck getting the job done or your money back!

Hurstmeister

If I wanted to get really nasty I suppose to could report him to IRS for tax evasion, I'm sure he never reported the money he took from us.

More info I dug up on Bryan.

Is this someone you want working on your ride?



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[HR][/HR] Address
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Hurstmeister

I know trying to get any money back from him will be like pulling teeth from a rabid pitbul. I dont anticipate getting anything back. My only goal now is to discredit him everywhere I can.

Hurst

Stealth Mode

im surprised BAMF hasnt chimed in about his brother.

BAMF

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