I predict that this board won't hear much from Joe for quite some time! He's probably spoken with a halfway educated lawyer, who being a lawyer spotted the scaminess in Joe right off the bat.. He probably told him that he's pretty screwed, and that it will cost him lots of money to get his car back. If I had to guess 10-20k for a lawyer, or 16k to pay off JAP Works..
All that said, I doubt that Joe, or anyone in his family either have that kind of money, or are willing to "loan" it to Joe to get him out of this situation.
Hopefully, as soon as anything transpires, the JAP Works boys will come back and enlighten us within this thread, as we all cling to storms, hot wives, and trolling to keep the thread sailing in the wind!