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Old 05-28-2015, 05:08 PM
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Default RK Motors might be in hot water...

hmmm..
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...view/26982201/
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Old 05-28-2015, 05:18 PM
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He is not listed as an owner on their website. I know Rob Kauffman was the big money backer. I wonder what roll this guy played in the company. I know someone who used to work there but left a few years ago.
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Old 05-28-2015, 05:19 PM
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Ah found it....

http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/pc/staff
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Old 05-28-2015, 05:39 PM
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125.00 per hour and they don't even insure the vehicle while in their facility.

Crazy


http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/pc/shop_policies
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what a disgusting prick.
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Old 05-29-2015, 07:29 AM
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I don't get people like that. Do they really think their actions won't come back and bite them in the ass? How embarrassing for his family and RK. Crazy...
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125.00 per hour and they don't even insure the vehicle while in their facility.

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http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/pc/shop_policies
That's actually not uncommon. At our shop, there are anywhere from 80-200 cars on lot at any time. None of those cars are insured by our policy and are instead covered by their owner's policies. This is of course a large, production collision shop. A friend of mine ran a large classic car consignment business for roughly 25 years and always had 300 cars on site. His inventory also was insured by its titled owners. At your shop the cars are 10 times more valuable and typically under construction or revision for a duration much longer than mine so I'm not sure if your policy would cover them or not.

Having said that, sounds like Carrol will be taking group showers pretty soon. What a scumbag.
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That's actually not uncommon. At our shop, there are anywhere from 80-200 cars on lot at any time. None of those cars are insured by our policy and are instead covered by their owner's policies. This is of course a large, production collision shop. A friend of mine ran a large classic car consignment business for roughly 25 years and always had 300 cars on site. His inventory also was insured by its titled owners. At your shop the cars are 10 times more valuable and typically under construction or revision for a duration much longer than mine so I'm not sure if your policy would cover them or not.
Your talking about 2 different elements, your bringing cars in off the street that were wrecked and still under the same insurance policy that drove down the street on. Its just insane to have a shop that builds 6 figure cars at 125 per hour and they do not cover the insurance. It's getting harder and harder to insure these projects on the customer side as there is no real way to put a value on a pile of parts that is not painted or running but worth 100k. We keep a running total each month to insure the cars for build cost until the project is handed over to the customer. And for a big time shop like that place is representing to be and charging what might be one of the largest hourly rates for what I saw was average work on a complete time and materials basis seems like a huge scam.

I know this is way off topic, but I have never heard or seen any of the cars they are promoting on their page before.
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I know this is way off topic, but I have never heard or seen any of the cars they are promoting on their page before.
The cars in their inventory a large portion of them are cars they bought at Barrett Jackson or Mecum. John Parson Nova is in their inventory currently.

The silver bullet Camaro they have was locally built here in Portland. Sold at Barrett in Vegas for $70k then was at Barrett Scottsdale this year sold for $99k now its on their inventory.
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Old 05-29-2015, 11:27 AM
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The cars in their inventory a large portion of them are cars they bought at Barrett Jackson or Mecum. John Parson Nova is in their inventory currently.

The silver bullet Camaro they have was locally built here in Portland. Sold at Barrett in Vegas for $70k then was at Barrett Scottsdale this year sold for $99k not its on their inventory.
Your making my point, They are not known for building any certain car.

Name one car they built in house, that either of us have heard of?
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