superbee6
Well-Known Member
I'm going to start with the warning just in case you decide not to read any further.
DO NOT DO BUSINESS OF ANY KIND WITH GARY SCHELLENBERG, THERESA DUNAWAY OR G CORP MUSCLE CAR in Fresno CA.
First off, this is also my fault for being too trusting. I am now fully "beat down" by this hobby and dealing with body shops, shady people, I've lost all energy for restoring a car. This all started back in June of 2018.
I purchased a 70 challenger from him a year and a half ago. It was a project, solid car, sold as a complete car minus drive train, basically a roller. I went and checked it out, bought the car got a bill of sale. He didn't have the title with him, had to get it out of his files. He owned a shop and showed me some pictures, said he could paint it for me and get it back together and ready for me to install the drive train. I gave him $8500 for the car and $1500 for labor to get started on the paint.
A few weeks later, I brought him the Gerst front suspension and rear 4 link I bought for it, and the US cartool stiffening kit. Then I took my son down to Fresno (where he lives) and we picked out a paint color and bought $1100 in paint supplies.
After weekly complaints to him about not having a title, I finally got the title over a year later. The title was a different VIN from the first BOS. He sent me a second BOS and claimed that he gave me a BOS with the wrong VIN the first time. It had been so long by then I couldn't remember for sure if I had matched the VIN on the BOS and the body at that time. I'm pretty sure I did. What he didn't tell me was that he didn't have the title from the very beginning, some shady deal that it was his dad's car and someone had a lien on the title etc, etc.
Promised me multiple times he'd send me pictures of progress and a paint sample. I finally got a paint sample months later after "it got lost in the mail", then a second time it got sent back to him because it didn't have enough postage. It looked like it was sprayed with asphalt. Crazy texture. He claimed that I told him that I wanted to cut and polish it myself, his mistake and he'd send me another one. Took another month and it was just as bad.
I have since told him more than 4 months ago that I just want the car now, forget all of the work, just get the parts together and I want the car.
He just keeps coming up with excuses and lies and I still don't have the car. He basically refuses by ignoring any requests for pictures, and he always comes up with some excuse on why he can't show me the car or send pictures. Claims he moved it to storage for final assembly, then he moved it back to his garage so he could take a picture of it.
This is only the tip of the iceberg on what has gone on with this guy. I'm just tying to keep this short enough that someone will read it.
I'm going to post this everywhere I can so if you see it again, just ignore it.
How do I handle this?
Thanks for any advice. And spread the word. I'd like it if this guy could never sell or buy anything again in his life.
DO NOT DO BUSINESS OF ANY KIND WITH GARY SCHELLENBERG, THERESA DUNAWAY OR G CORP MUSCLE CAR in Fresno CA.
First off, this is also my fault for being too trusting. I am now fully "beat down" by this hobby and dealing with body shops, shady people, I've lost all energy for restoring a car. This all started back in June of 2018.
I purchased a 70 challenger from him a year and a half ago. It was a project, solid car, sold as a complete car minus drive train, basically a roller. I went and checked it out, bought the car got a bill of sale. He didn't have the title with him, had to get it out of his files. He owned a shop and showed me some pictures, said he could paint it for me and get it back together and ready for me to install the drive train. I gave him $8500 for the car and $1500 for labor to get started on the paint.
A few weeks later, I brought him the Gerst front suspension and rear 4 link I bought for it, and the US cartool stiffening kit. Then I took my son down to Fresno (where he lives) and we picked out a paint color and bought $1100 in paint supplies.
After weekly complaints to him about not having a title, I finally got the title over a year later. The title was a different VIN from the first BOS. He sent me a second BOS and claimed that he gave me a BOS with the wrong VIN the first time. It had been so long by then I couldn't remember for sure if I had matched the VIN on the BOS and the body at that time. I'm pretty sure I did. What he didn't tell me was that he didn't have the title from the very beginning, some shady deal that it was his dad's car and someone had a lien on the title etc, etc.
Promised me multiple times he'd send me pictures of progress and a paint sample. I finally got a paint sample months later after "it got lost in the mail", then a second time it got sent back to him because it didn't have enough postage. It looked like it was sprayed with asphalt. Crazy texture. He claimed that I told him that I wanted to cut and polish it myself, his mistake and he'd send me another one. Took another month and it was just as bad.
I have since told him more than 4 months ago that I just want the car now, forget all of the work, just get the parts together and I want the car.
He just keeps coming up with excuses and lies and I still don't have the car. He basically refuses by ignoring any requests for pictures, and he always comes up with some excuse on why he can't show me the car or send pictures. Claims he moved it to storage for final assembly, then he moved it back to his garage so he could take a picture of it.
This is only the tip of the iceberg on what has gone on with this guy. I'm just tying to keep this short enough that someone will read it.
I'm going to post this everywhere I can so if you see it again, just ignore it.
How do I handle this?
Thanks for any advice. And spread the word. I'd like it if this guy could never sell or buy anything again in his life.