PPR of dover, delaware BEWARE
 

P.P.R. or Poor People Racing of Dover Delaware are THIEVES. here is the story

i went to the owner of ppr, which shawn kirby, a technical sergent in the united states air force. i figured it would be a good idea since he is military and in theory should be dependable. so i had him rebuild my 94 mazda rx7. i spent an insane amount of money in the car in general to include about three thousand dollars in brand new parts i had him install. roughly 15k in parts alone.

first off, it took him forever to finish the damn thing (assuming he even finished at all, but ill get to that later). i dropped the car off in july and it wasnt ready until october!! wtf. at the time i was in the middle of a move from delaware to florida and drove to florida to drop my wifes car off. when he finally told me it was finished i told him ill come get in a week or two since i was in florida and had to arrange to come pick it up.

here is the good part, i called him the monday the week i was flying out and said i would be there thursday and was going to pick it up as soon as i get off the plane. i called again wednesday to remind him and said everything would be ready. so thursday morning rolls around and i get a call at 6am. it was SHAWN KIRBY calling to tell me my car was stolen!!!

SHAWN KIRBY tells me it was stolen the night before because he put it outside so i would be ready. according to the cop report there were no signs of a breakin being no glass or anything broken on the ground. plus the car is loud as all hell so i know it was driven away.

my rx7 was almost always kept outside my house when i lived there, sometimes even unlocked and few times with the windows open over night and the car was never stolen. the cop also said that car theft in the area is minimal and SHAWN KIRBY'S response to the cop was "oh, i know some people that can get into some cars"

now why would a shop owner be so stupid as to leave a customers car on the curb??? the day before its picked up??? its been there the entire time with no problems but all of a sudden mention of it being picked up and the car dissappears. also, when i was considering him to do the work on my car he had photos of every major car he had worked on but yet he didnt take not one photo of my car so there isnt even any proof of the work that he claimed was done????

ive called his house, his cell, emailed, contacted his military job, and even had a buddy of mine speak with him directly and he has yet to contact me, obviously ignoring me.

you be the judge.

im posting this so anyone considering having him/them do work reconsider before trusting him with your baby.

you've been warned.

maby you should have this moved into the NE section

good idea, ill actually post one in there too. trying to spread the word as much as possible.

You're gonna have a hard time proving anything, unless a witness pops up, which is doubtful. Just playing devil's advocate here, but what you're doing is Libel (sp), that is, accusing and dirtying someone's name, without reasonable proof. Anyways, I'm just giving my opinion from a neutral standpoint. So no one took pictures or anything at all, during the progress?

Can you maybe get affidativs (sp) or something in writing that the work was done or parts were installed for insurance purposes?

Do you (or the shop owner) have receipts for the parts at least? See if you can get something (more than book value of the car), assuming you had coverage for theft. Did the shop have any coverage that would protect customer cars (even if parked outside)?

technically the olny part that is libel is the part where he calls them thieves, the rest is just specualtion... but +1. OP should be careful because should this go to lawsuit, that may bite him in the ass. I know you are mad (as i would be), but just remember, its not what you know, its what you can prove. you have to play the game by the rules or its not gonna work for you. good luck man. sorry to hear.

i agree. i actually ment to post it up as "thieves??" indicating that they could potentially be thieves, but by the time i went back to correct it the edit button had dissappeared on me.

well, you have a brain. what do you think happened? a little to convienent if you ask me, dont you think?

spread the word

Wow that sucks I know the feeling.... I really dont understand how things like this happened! I m sure what goes around comes around for that dumb ass.. I hope you have recipes and full coverage insurance? Good luck to you man....

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