Horrible Experience with Norwood Autocraft! Beware of Bob Norwood

I had a completely different experience buying the carbon fiber glass engine cover and the F40 Brembo brake kit, and carbon fiber air intake heat shield for my TR. He was a gentleman and absolute delight. Try again when you've both cooled off.


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Is that the car they were discussing about on here in the F40 wanted thread?

"We have a 288 gto it's mostly real other than suspension and drivetrain body is real and subframes are real. It was the body off of the car that made the f40 prototype"

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/ferraris/529446-wanted-buy-non-cat-non-adjust-f40.html

 

Confused. Were you expecting a 288 gto for 110k? Aren't those cars 1.8 million or so? This car is simply a 308 with a cool body kit. That's it. Wouldn't expect the frame or much else to match...

It's a Ferrari with a body kit. Kind of cool, actually...

 

Yes but if we are talking about the same car, that is not how it was represented or shared.

 

Is the deposit supposed to be refundable? What is in your contract? He is supposed to be a good guy and has done some amazing Ferraris over the decades. He is one of the original Ferrari hotrodders.

 

I work with Mr. Norwood and was the one on here trying to sell the car. The agreement on the deposit was that if the car was not as described when he arrived then we would give him his deposit back. We never stated that the wheels were originals, only the body panels and subframes. He said that he was going to show up many different times and it kept changing then he said he would come on Sunday the 28th with a trailer and pick the car up. So Mr. Norwood and me gathered all the parts up on Saturday afternoon waiting for his arrival on Sunday. We took the day off waiting for him to show and finally he calls me around 3:30pm stating he won't come until Monday stating that there was too many flaws with the car. We suggested he could fly in to the airport and we would pick him up at the airport so he didn't have to drive but he refused. We tried to work with him because the wheels were not originals. We found a set and he still refused after we said we would drop the agreed price 10k. The bill of sale was agreed upon of 110k I have a pick of the bill of sale.

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I stated that I wasn't sure. I said to you that Mr. Norwood knew more about the car. And to talk to him the next morning

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We tried to work something out. We dropped the price and found a set of real wheels you could have bought

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Yea but we were buying from someone else. We could have probably got them cheaper

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Cold feet and hot tempers.

 

Has anyone seen one of these threads that worked out the way the initial poster thought?

 

So, it actually sounds like both parties are pretty close to agreement.

 

The wheels were supposed to be original, and they weren't original. As bigred95 stated, "The agreement on the deposit was that if the car was not as described when he arrived then we would give him his deposit back."

So the car is not as described, just give the guy his deposit back.

What part of this is hard to understand?

 

FWIW: Sounds like you both tried to make it right and you and Bob also had a bad weekend as well.

Sh*t happens when you own (like I do) a small business BUT tell me, why do you think that it is fair to keep the guy's $2,000??

Yes you did waste your time but keeping the guys money is pretty low of you both.

After reading this post I wouldn't do business with you or Bob.

 

The wheels were never said to be original. They were said that they were part of the purchase

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Nope...

 

This is what you said in post #6 in the thread linked earlier in this thread, ".... it's got original single knock off wheels."