How do I alert others about my experience?, (Scott Burnett/Kahiko Customs & Restoration) Options

[Cairo94507]

So next week will be 1 year since I pulled my car from Scotty's shop, (KAHIKO CUSTOMS & RESTORATION, Scott Burnett, 106H Roxbury Industrial, Charles City, VA 23030) and I am still missing parts Scott has still never found in his shop....

Though Scott has admitted he owes me money, and I have asked him to send what he said he owed me, I have never seen a single penny.

I paid Scott $29,600 and traded him my 3.0 running motor ($7,500 value?) for work- not an insignificant amount. I have copies of the checks, pictures of the motor, an invoice from Scott showing work I was charged for, etc. I have avoided posting a lot of the pictures of the condition in which I found my car when I picked it up after Scott had it for 61 months, but I can. Trust me, Kent has now got over 350 hours into getting the chassis ready for paint.

I am aware of two other member who experienced similar trouble with Scott and pulled their cars from his shop as well.

When I first began dealings with Scott he seemed to be a solid dude who had done some great work in the past. However after he injured his back, maybe 1.5 years into my build, it seemed like everything changed dramatically and he never got back to what he may have once been.

I want to post about my experience so anyone searching for a shop in the near future can make an informed decision regarding their shop selection. How would you go about that? Where would you post that- specifically, what other car forums should I alert, if any? Looking for helpful suggestions. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[Cairo94507]

Hi everyone,

For those who feel the need to try to "defend" Scott, please read my Part 1. I was a big fan of Scott. He told me he was doing true craftsman level, near concours work. I believed him. Then consider I gave him $29,600 cash, plus a running 3.0. Now look at Part 2 of my thread to see just a glimpse of the crap work I got for that amount of money which should have produced a concours painted car. I am not making stuff up here. I have posted a lot of pictures to show what I "got" for my money.

However to this day, he still says his work was near concours level and believes I got my money's worth.

He told me about six months ago that he felt he owed me $2,775 back. I have asked for that, telling him at least that is a start to setting me right. He has never sent me a cent and just demands I prove his work was crap. Really? Look at the pictures of what I got when I picked my car up. Scott said that was only 2 weeks away from all the metal work being done. Kent has over 350 hours getting the metal work done and getting it ready for paint.

One example for the die-hards. I wanted late model doors with the crash bars and better, (IMHO) window mechanisms. Scott said he had a set of perfect doors he would sell me. I paid him $300 for a set of doors and then he charged me another 2 hours to remove them from the car they were on and then 6 hours just to straighten one of the doors. So figure about $850 or so to that point. When we got the car to LA, Kent discovered the doors were rusted out, rotten shells. Scott then said "On the east coast, those are good doors." Really? He never said, "perfect for the east coast". He said "perfect." How would you feel. We removed those junk doors and put a set of perfect doors on the car that needed very little work to get them metal finished.

I have a lot of pictures but am reluctant to post them as I do not want people to confuse those photos with the work Kent has done. I am considering posting pictures of the Scott work here. But I also do not want people to get overloaded and feel like I am beating a dead horse. But if people need more convincing, let me know and I will post a few key photos. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

OK, sorry. I didn't want to do that but reading others posting that Scott is such a great guy got me a little wound up.