May be a repost, but I just came across this on the gt forum. It struck me as funny because last week he signed a contract at the auto show to purchase a Murci Roadster. He also wanted to borrow a murci spyder I have for a few weeks to design a new top....
This guy kind of sounds like some well known viper tuner
In spite of my best efforts and intensions to provide the GTX1 for people that wish to have something more out of their GT, I have failed. Not because it was beyond my abilities but rather beyond my finical abilities to float the company along between orders and meet the promises and obligations that were made. As a result, we have stopped building GTX1’s and we will not be taking deposits for them to be built until we are better funded. I simply can not afford to put others at risk while the company languishes along.
As to the tops, we have both the hard top and soft top molds complete and ready to produce but have no money to complete and send them out. So much was spent on developing tops with no compromise that it became the Achilles heel to the downfall of the GTX1. I do not have the funds to complete it at this point but would do the work for owners willing to pay the venders directly for the parts needed. I have no intention of taking any profits from this over run to see it through as I have a moral obligation to the GTX1 owners.
I must move away from building vehicles and concentrate my efforts toward the production of a non-GT related component for which I have a patent pending. It has the possibility of generating significant profits that will put me in a position to pay back GTX1 owners for the over runs that are needed to complete the cars.
Understand, this is a very difficult thing for me to walk away from because of my passion for automobiles and the people that enjoy driving them, but I have taken this as far as I can, so far that the enormous stress is taking a serious toll on my health. This indeed is not the news you would like to have heard from me but it is all that I can offer you at this point, but as money becomes available to me, my highest priority will be to finish tops and repay any costs incurred over and above the contract price.
I hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me for what I have decided to do but I feel it is the only way I can survive this and have a chance at redemption.
Yup. It's kinda a touchy subject there. I have not said anything since I have nothing to do with the situation, but I have heard some disturbing things about Mark Gerisch. They even banned him there, but not sure if they lifted the ban or not. I really feel bad for the guys that have not got their cars back.
May be a repost, but I just came across this on the gt forum. It struck me as funny because last week he signed a contract at the auto show to purchase a Murci Roadster...
He was here in Chicago at the Chicago Auto Show last week? If true, what a dick move!
Looks that way. I don't understand what these guys are thinking. All the big guys, including the late Boyd Coddington has had these crazy issues. The only one that has not been surrounded by controversy is Chip Foose.
Oh, I believe you. I'm working things out thru appropriate channels hoping to prevent him from doing this to other people.
Besides GTX conversions, he's marketing GTB doors that don't work and customers who have paid can't get and now Murcielago roofs that he doesn't have. He does have a spiffy website with a graphic design carbon fiber roof that looks convincing to the unwary.
Sad that he still seems to be taking in money in the meantime.
