Remember the rabbit in Alice in wonderland? Alex is the white rabbit and the customers/clients with DEEP pockets are Alice, they get lured into a mystical journey Alex has for them.
Alex is exceedingly knowledgeable and 9 times out of 10 will pin point the problem, however the dollar signs in his eyes take over from him being an ethical business owner.
He takes sort cuts (which has been proven time and time again) but won’t discuss these cheaper short cuts with the car owner/customer so they go off thinking they have a superior item at full price. He lives through “clients” money and basically will run a build budget right out, without the consent of the “client”, who has no other option then to spend it as the car needs to be finished/mobile.
I lost count how many $5000 cheques were written and the car hadn’t changed and the answers as to what the money was needed for were vague.
As I already told you our circumstance with this business I won’t get into anymore. I’m relatively well known within the import circle and enough people are well aware of what has gone on.
All that aside, the trailer is a major pet hate, he was not given permission to chop it up, he was not given permission to have the running gear, he didn’t even apologize and offer second hand value for the running gear.
He asked to keep the trailer down there to use, which we allowed. We gave him countless media exposure and allowed the racecar to sit at his workshop as a trophy of some sort; so new customers could see his work.
He got greedy. That’s all there is to it.
As above, he has been caught out countless times on here with his sort cut work. There is numerous proof with backyard looms and quick fixes on this site and others. I have even sent knowledgeable people down to his workshop with Race/Club day skylines (GTR’s included) with no issues to set him up in aid of seeing who he’ll try and take for a run. Needless to say all my mates and their cars reported back to me with nothing more then Alex trying to bleed big money from them.