Hi Adam, I too have been trying to track him down as he has disappeared with my 95 Trans Am. I would be very grateful to have his home address or mobile number if only to hand them to the police who are dealing with my case.
CARS America, Hailsham
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Hi, I am pleased you have your car back, well, parts of it back! I fear that If I do get mine back it will be in the same condition as yours. My email is toni.wb@btinternet.com and I would really appreciate contact details for Simmons or his new business!
phild
CCCUK Member
Hi Toni, you have an e mail. Best of luck in recovering your car.
Mad4slalom
Well-known user
seconded! Good luck
Hi Phil, glad you have your car back. Unfortunately I'm in the same boat.. if you could send me an email with any contact details and information about Simmons to lil_blydie123@hotmail.com it would be so helpful. Did he just go out of business and relocate the cars or is it something more sinister?
Hi Major, Unfortunately I'm in the same boat.. if you could forward me the email that phil sent you with any contact details and information about Simmons to lil_blydie123@hotmail.com it would be extremely helpful!
Reading this has sadden me, as I have been trying to contact John for a while, hoping my issues could be resolved. Just visited his garage in Hailsham to find it empty , although I only have a Corvette C4 and not of great value .
Has anyone got his latest contact details I would like to get my car back. Also If anyone has seen any of his stored customers car. Was there a red C4 soft top there 1986
I have sent you an email with his contact details and the name/location of the police constable investigating.
phild
CCCUK Member
I've e mailed you Simmons address and other personal details.
My experience with the police was non-productive. Despite reporting theft and providing Simmons contact details they did absolutely nothing, apart from providing a crime reference number. I'm told this is typically what to expect these days from our law enforcement agencies.
I hired a private detective agency to get my car back. On inspection there are many missing parts which I paid for and some of the work going back years, and paid for, has not been done. My take on Simmons is that this isn't someone recently having difficulties but someone who was ripping customers off and tried to disappear to avoid the consequences.
Good luck to all his customers, and suppliers, who are missing cars/parts and are owed money. Sadly its not an exclusive club!
UPDATE - I've recovered my vehicle, many thanks to those who passed on John's address, hugely appreciated.
Realise John should have contacted everyone individually to let them know of the situation with his garage earlier this year, but as far as I know, the vehicles are all safe, and I now have my vehicle back along with most of the spare parts.
If anyone else is still trying to track down their vehicle, I am happy to help.
Realise John should have contacted everyone individually to let them know of the situation with his garage earlier this year, but as far as I know, the vehicles are all safe, and I now have my vehicle back along with most of the spare parts.
If anyone else is still trying to track down their vehicle, I am happy to help.
teamzr1
Supporting vendor
Damn, looks like a bunch of you got screwed over and the guy getting away with it
Not going to make you happy, but this happened on a big scale here in the USA
A shop in Texas and set himself up as a god to Corvettes on Corvette forums
He talked a lot of BS and people sucked it up and were sending their Corvettes to Texas which round trip shipping
alone is not cheap
One example I know is a teammate of ours, and he lives in Hawaii
so that meant shipping his fairly new C6 via boat
He paid up front $10,000 to shop and was to be done with all the mods within 4 weeks
Well 3 months go by and nothing, C6 owner keeps calling and emailing, and shop owner keeps on lying
and even talks the C6 owner sending him another $5,000 !
4 months, 5 months, the shop knows the guy is not going to fly all the way to the USA so keeps stroking C6 owner
He contacts me and I then contact one of our teammates living local to shop in Texas and told him to
pretend he stopped by to see what the shop does, and he might want the shop to do some mods for his Corvette
We told him exactly what the C6 looked like, color, plates, etc
He looks around and finds this C6 really dirty, hood gone, parts of engine gone, even some of the body panels gone, etc
Seems this shop was stripping the C6 and selling the parts and had not done one mod he was paid to do
C6 owner had to then hire someone, go with the cops and tow the C6 out of the shop :-(
Took C6 owner months to have another shop to buy what was needed to put the car back together and was
cheaper for owner to just find someone in the USA to buy the C6 from him rather the costs of boating back to him
He spent countless on all this, never got the $15K back plus all the lawyers fees for the shop to just go belly up :-(
Not going to make you happy, but this happened on a big scale here in the USA
A shop in Texas and set himself up as a god to Corvettes on Corvette forums
He talked a lot of BS and people sucked it up and were sending their Corvettes to Texas which round trip shipping
alone is not cheap
One example I know is a teammate of ours, and he lives in Hawaii
so that meant shipping his fairly new C6 via boat
He paid up front $10,000 to shop and was to be done with all the mods within 4 weeks
Well 3 months go by and nothing, C6 owner keeps calling and emailing, and shop owner keeps on lying
and even talks the C6 owner sending him another $5,000 !
4 months, 5 months, the shop knows the guy is not going to fly all the way to the USA so keeps stroking C6 owner
He contacts me and I then contact one of our teammates living local to shop in Texas and told him to
pretend he stopped by to see what the shop does, and he might want the shop to do some mods for his Corvette
We told him exactly what the C6 looked like, color, plates, etc
He looks around and finds this C6 really dirty, hood gone, parts of engine gone, even some of the body panels gone, etc
Seems this shop was stripping the C6 and selling the parts and had not done one mod he was paid to do
C6 owner had to then hire someone, go with the cops and tow the C6 out of the shop :-(
Took C6 owner months to have another shop to buy what was needed to put the car back together and was
cheaper for owner to just find someone in the USA to buy the C6 from him rather the costs of boating back to him
He spent countless on all this, never got the $15K back plus all the lawyers fees for the shop to just go belly up :-(
Stingray
CCCUK Member
^^^ This, this and this. I have contractors walk away because I won't pay upfront but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
phild
CCCUK Member
Sorry to hear another victim's story. If you PM me your e mail address then I'll send you all his personal details, address & phone number.
Good luck with the police, i reported the theft of mine and, apart from giving me a crime reference, they did nothing even though i gave them his contact details. In the end I had to do it privately via a detective agency who were, ironically, ex-police officers.
phild
CCCUK Member
You have E mail, best of luck.
