Please help a fellow teener!, ***I need to find Brad Roberts, please read post*** Options

[madd_dogg_914]

I know that the name Brad Roberts isn't a very highly regarded name in these parts, but I know someone out there must know how to get a hold of him. Brief backstory (or as brief as I can make it):

About 12 years ago I met Brad at a 914club.com event. We had chatted about converting my 1973 1.7 to a 914-6. Soon the chats became serious, and I handed the keys over to Brad to do the conversion. Since then, there has been much turmoil surrounding Brad, the separation with the club site to the world site, a divorce, jail time, moving, new jobs and adventures, all the while he maintained that my car is almost done, just a couple more things to finish, just need a wiring harness, etc. Now, 12 (it may even be more, I stopped counting) years later I get a Notice of Stored Vehicle in the mail from some shop I've never heard of in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. They want me to pay $6050 (climbing another $100 by the day), or they are going to sell my car at a lien sale. I don't know why my car is there (last I saw it, it was at his house), and I've been desperately reaching out to Brad to try and find an explanation, but he hasn't returned any phone calls, and he hasn't responded to any of my text messages.

The shop is called So Cal Euro Werks, does anyone know if that is Brad's shop? I thought his was called Inland Empire something, but I've been known to be wrong before. Maybe he is trying to collect money from me for having the car for so long? I'm really just trying to get to the bottom of it, and I'm trying desperately to not assume the worst (which is that he has just absconded with my money/parts, and just left the car somewhere).

So if anyone out there has any way of communicating with Brad, has seen Brad, or knows how to get a hold of him, would you please tell him that Chris Killam is desperately trying to get a hold of him.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart, this car means the world to me, as it was my mothers, who passed away when I was 9 years old. She left the car to me, and it is really the only thing I have to remember her by. I just want my car back, finished or not. I don't even know if the car is complete right now.

I've attached a picture of the car, as it was when I gave it to him to do the conversion. Please help, I feel (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

[tavoman27]

I do not like to get my name to be trashed around by ungrateful people but some of this accusations do get to me so here is my side of the story.

For the guy claiming that his valve adjustment went out in 500 miles that is not true... you brought the car in after sitting around or quite some time... we rebuilt the carburetors, bled the brakes and tuned your car plus the valve adjustments... we charged you $250 dollars when our regular rate would have had the invoice at least $450 dollars, you called me and contacted me about the noise and all I asked you to do was to bring the car back to check the valves and re adjust them at no charge... I'm still waiting for you to come around.

Your friend Saxon called me about his 996 with a blown motor, I quoted him $1500 to swap motors, he had quotes from other shops ranging from $2500 to $4000.
I picked up the car for Him from his house because he had a broken leg and wanted to help him out so the car was pick up for FREE!!!!!!

Upon arrival we inspected the car and told him he had a rod bearing laying inside the case and that the engine was NOT GOOD AS A CORE REPLACEMENT so he will have to pay the price for the new engine plus the core charge, I gave him multiple choices of prices on the engines and core charges but he decided to GO AROUND ME AND BUY AN ENGINE FROM MY SUPPLIER AT MY COST but wanted me to install it.... once it was al said and done the ENGINE SUPPLIER contacts me and tells me that he is sending a long block only not a full engine replacement so Saxon was notified of that and also notified of the extra charge for removing all the engine intake manifolds, wiring, sensors and affiliated hardware from the damaged engine and install them on the new long block with new gaskets and related parts.... he Agreed to it but could not afford the price of the long block plus the core charge so the new engine never arrived.

At that time his engine and transmission were removed from the car and damaged engine was stripped down to a long block awaiting for replacement unit to be delivered as promised by Saxon that the engine was arriving.

So your friend paid only for the work performed on his car not a penny more, it is not my foul that he can not afford to fix his car.

So please next time you want to talk crap about some one please get your facts straight and correct and also realize that your college student budget does not allow you to play with PORSCHES so do not ask or call about problems with your car and right away shot the poor student line.

No good deed goes unpunished.

[BigFour1973]

I do not like to get my name to be trashed around by ungrateful people but some of this accusations do get to me so here is my side of the story.

For the guy claiming that his valve adjustment went out in 500 miles that is not true... you brought the car in after sitting around or quite some time... we rebuilt the carburetors, bled the brakes and tuned your car plus the valve adjustments... we charged you $250 dollars when our regular rate would have had the invoice at least $450 dollars, you called me and contacted me about the noise and all I asked you to do was to bring the car back to check the valves and re adjust them at no charge... I'm still waiting for you to come around.

Lets start the he said she said bullshit then. You must have bumped your head because youre right the car did sit for 10 years... but once it came into your shop it had been well on the road for almost 2 years. If you bled the brakes you did it out of the kindness of your heart because you didn't inform me of it nor did i ask for it. I texted you to inform you of what was happening, you jumped straight to drop valve seat and said it would be 10 hours to drop the motor and inspect the heads. NO where in those text messages did you say come drop it by to have it re done at no charge.

Your friend Saxon called me about his 996 with a blown motor, I quoted him $1500 to swap motors, he had quotes from other shops ranging from $2500 to $4000.
I picked up the car for Him from his house because he had a broken leg and wanted to help him out so the car was pick up for FREE!!!!!!

Upon arrival we inspected the car and told him he had a rod bearing laying inside the case and that the engine was NOT GOOD AS A CORE REPLACEMENT so he will have to pay the price for the new engine plus the core charge, I gave him multiple choices of prices on the engines and core charges but he decided to GO AROUND ME AND BUY AN ENGINE FROM MY SUPPLIER AT MY COST but wanted me to install it.... once it was al said and done the ENGINE SUPPLIER contacts me and tells me that he is sending a long block only not a full engine replacement so Saxon was notified of that and also notified of the extra charge for removing all the engine intake manifolds, wiring, sensors and affiliated hardware from the damaged engine and install them on the new long block with new gaskets and related parts.... he Agreed to it but could not afford the price of the long block plus the core charge so the new engine never arrived.

You offered to pick up his car, no no, you insisted you pick up his car and were upset that he couldn't help you push it onto the trailer. Either yourself or mike informed him to talk to vision and get a price. Also, the engine wasn't a good core because of the newly added inspection hole added by the failed rod, not the rod bearing sitting in the pan.

At that time his engine and transmission were removed from the car and damaged engine was stripped down to a long block awaiting for replacement unit to be delivered as promised by Saxon that the engine was arriving.

So your friend paid only for the work performed on his car not a penny more, it is not my foul that he can not afford to fix his car.

Not a penny more, but it should've been a few pennies less. I'm sorry, when a customer of mine gets quoted for me to come out and perform the repair work on 2 units it's X amount. If I only remove the old and don't install a new it becomes X-Y=Z (Y being the work I didn't perform and Z being the new adjusted price.)

So please next time you want to talk crap about some one please get your facts straight and correct and also realize that your college student budget does not allow you to play with PORSCHES so do not ask or call about problems with your car and right away shot the poor student line.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Call it what you will, this was my review of what I experienced in your shop. My college student budget allows me to play with grandpas car, its lasted 43 years in my family and I want to make sure it lasts another 43+. So with that being said, i didnt come to your shop because you were the cheapest. I didnt come to your shop because you looked like someone I could get along with, nor did i come to your shop because it was geographically convenient. I came to your shop because I saw your love for the 914 on the race down to cabo and figured you were the guy I could use for my next service and more to come.