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Posted on 03/07/2014 9:08:04 AM PST by smokingfrog
HOUSTON (CN) - A Texas auto shop worker liked a customer's Corvette so much he put 11,000 miles on it before ditching it at a stranger's house, the car owner claims in court.
Tim Paisley sued Frank E. Coleman dba Frank's Vettes in Harris County Court.
Paisley says in the lawsuit that he was a longtime client of Frank's Vettes when in the spring of 2012 the shop's worker Marco Ruiz talked him into letting Ruiz upgrade the interior of his 1984 Corvette.
Ruiz is not a defendant in the lawsuit.
"Ruiz had limited permission to drive the vehicle from Frank's Vettes to various other necessary locations while Ruiz completed the interior work to the vehicle," the complaint states. "However, the vehicle was supposed to be parked at Frank's Vettes physical place business overnight until the repairs were completed."
Paisley claims Ruiz "soon became unresponsive" to his phone calls.
"At some point, plaintiff became aware that Ruiz began to drive the vehicle for Ruiz's everyday personal use and eventually ran up 11,000 miles on the vehicle. Ruiz finally abandoned the vehicle in August 2012 at a house owned by a man named 'Johnson,'" Paisley says in the complaint.
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Get a rope...
A scene from Ferris Buellers Day Off
I went to see a shop that had my car in for work. The shop was open and nobody was there, so I waited. All five of them drove up in my car carrying lunch leftovers. All together, in the time they had it, they put about 200 miles on it. Then they wanted so much to do the work I said no. (Oh, my gas, too.)
That’s a lot of driving
Unfortunantly, this is all too common. I took my wife’s classic Mustang to a glass shop for them to try a seal the windshield (again) and got reports from several witnesses that they took it out and thrashed it around town.
It’s also similar to a Seinfeld episode.
IIRC 84 was not a spectacular year for vettes. Relatively low power and not great styling. I’d still like to have one.
As a 17 year old senior in high school, I worked at an auto repair shop. We were busy. A mechanic had just finished putting new (larger) wheels/tires and traction bars on a suped-up Trans-am. He told me to test drive it to see if the wheels rubbed when you accelerate. I objected at first. It was a stick and I had only recently learned to drive one (in a 4-cylnder). But we were pretty busy. I don’t know how much horse power that car had. But I couldn’t find the right touch to let out the clutch without either jerking and stalling or spinning the tires. Trying this on the streets was getting cumbersome. So I went to a big and MOSTLY vacant grocery store parking lot down the street. I did a couple accidental short burnouts trying to accelerate. Then I would get out to see if there were marks on the tires. That’s when I noticed I had drawn a small crowd in front of the grocery store. I was wearing my uniform and started to think what this must look like. I immediately drove the car back to shop, turned in the keys and reported it perfect.
I will admit that there was at least one time I may have given it more gas than necessary but immediately stopped when I noticed the smoke. In hindsight, the clutch was obviously too sensitive. lol
Yes, I think there is only one 1983 (in the Corvette Museum) as the change from C3 to C4 took too long and they “missed” a production year. So the ‘84 to ‘86 C4s are the “first” years with lots of bugs. I have a C3 and love its lines. No offense C4 guys.
Or pay car rental fees to the owner.
Never pay front money for ANYTHING!
You guys got nothing to worry about, I'm a professional.
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