ZL 1 #51

[NovaMob03]

For those that may not have heard, the BJ auction of Reggies ZL 1 went sideways. It was reported that someone else in Ga actually has the original block & the high bidder, Ron Pratt backed out.
Previously, I mentioned that I bought the original block directly from Lamar. Lamar also recieved 4 other ZL 1 blocks from Vince Piggens to use for racing. So, now it appears that I bought one of those extra blocks from Lamar even though he told me that it was the original. The vin # stamping looked like a factory stamp to me.
Reggie actually came in to town yesterday, met with Lamar & saw what appears to be the original (damaged)block. Don't really know where this will go from here, but I'll gladly buy back the one in Reggie's car for the $5800 I sold it for

[Stefano]

Sounds like Lamar has told quite a few interesting stories about his cars over the years.

[Kim_Howie]

Popcorn with butter Please!!

[Charley Lillard]

If you sold it as the orig block to 51 and it was then sold to Reggie as the orig block to 51 I would be more worried about Reggie wanting all his money back including all the money he spent on repairing it. Your recourse would be to go after Lamar for damages. In fact if Reggie loses the sale because someone sold him a fraudulent block I would be worried about even more damages.

[quick-bowtie]

This is getting so out of hand.. You cant sell anything anymore with out a waver of liabilty. From now on its cheap cars for me I dont trust any high end cars anymore its just not worth the headache.

[deuce-less]

perhaps in the end the liability would lie with the person who 'knowingly' misrepresented an item jmo

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I think to get damages for fraud, you have to prove 'intent to deceive'. That's tough to do.

[Chevy454]

I agree, M...but "waivers" or whatever ain't the problem, what happened to people's integrity? This isn't just isolated to our hobby, but everyone any more??

[Charley Lillard]

So if someone has stamped and sold two blocks as the orig one for # 51 and still has a third one with the same stampings I would think that would fall into the "intent to decieve" category.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I agree with you there Rob, but it's just tough to prove 'intent'... What we need is a well publicized, landmark legal case to set the precedent and strike some fear into these bums.