No luck. I just reported it stolen.
No luck. I just reported it stolen.
Wow..... This is just unbelievable you guys. I've been hearing things about this guy now for the last year or so and it just doesn't stop. About 6mos ago someone sent me a link about his business practices when his business was called something else. I could have sworn it was from this site, he was banned.
I truly hope justice will be served. This has gone from stealing parts to now stealing trucks, that is some pretty serious charges he faces.
Hope he gets what he deserves.....
just chiming in as another person scammed by Billy. I wouldn't have gone to him if someone hadn't referred me to this thief. I really wish that guy had actually had his work done by Billy before he gave me the recommendation. It turns out that Billy did a crappy job on his motor and stuck him for the bill. By the time I found out I was out $5600 for a Saleen VI.5 Supercharger he was supposed to order for me but never arrived.
Still, I'm one of the lucky ones. At least this man never placed his hands on my car. Right now I'm dealing with my credit card company. If that doesn't pan out I'm looking at going to small claims court, for what it's worth.
The long version of my story also demonstrates that Billy is probably a serious clinical sociopath. I'll give more details later when I'm done from work.
Here's his home address (at least the one he gave me last year) if anyone needs to serve him court documents:
3323 Summerdale Ave.
Turlock, CA 95380
I will be the first to admit I regret recommending his shop to you and alot of other folks.
Vendicated Tuning (Billy) was a site vendor for a local car club I belong to and many members that had work done there were pretty happy for the most part. I first met Billy at one of our club dyno days in 09 and he busted his ass putting 27 car IIRC on the dyno...he is a likable fella and over a period of time trust develops especially being a site vendor.
If you notice a trend here its when he is asked to build a custom motor is when he looses his mind. He did small jobs for me (diagnose my Marauder/exhaust work/daughter's Cougar) and seemed to be a stand up guy....slow to deliver but considering his full time job at the Turlock Ford dealer I cut him some slack. Seeing his shop first had (always full) with plenty of clientele I said why not local only 20 minutes from me a club vendor, plenty of first had references lets do it.....ugh luckily for me Craig was going through his build (05 Stroker Turbo Project) while my car was at his shop and I came to my senses by not having him touch my Short block. I had Billy shipped out the SB to the builder to get it checked out. He had it for 8-9 months before he reinstalled the SB and refreashed heads (done by Valley Machine). However I pulled it out after it ran for 2-days the went poof and sat in his shop for another 2 months. I finally shipped the whole car to MMR. Where do I begin on MMR's findings...well I will post up that on a separate thread.
Crappy doesn't describe his work; hack job is more accurate. But yes his workmanship is piss poor and crook is an understatement. Gullible people like me believed the "I hella hooked you up and now your going to turn on me" line.
Anyone have a phone number for Billy? He has had my truck on and off for 6 years and now no responses at all.
I think it's freakin crazy that people kept going to him after they knew what he was doing. We hadn't spoke for a long time after the MSX stuff, I stopped hanging out with him and most of the other guys that associated with him. However we did talk one time a while ago and he had told me he changed, he wasn't screwing people over etc. Then a couple months later I hear he is doing the same thing and people are getting screwed out of lot's of money and parts. He used the "my shop got broken into" on a friend of mine who was also a really good friend of his who ended up not getting his forged Mach motor and P&P heads with custom cams back.
Why the hell don't people file a police report against him? If there are enough people (which I know there are) it becomes a criminal offense not just a civil case.
How long ago did your buddy have Billy work on his Mach I? And what kind of cams did he have? Comp Cams 106400/300 or similar grinds?
No luck. I just reported it stolen.
Not sure, he posted on the last page "Charged Mach" He was friends will Billy for years and Billy completely screwed him over. I can ask him, he lost his built motor, cams, p&p heads.
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I should add Billy was notorious for giving away and selling peoples parts to other customers. He would take what people paid him and spend it on whatever and hope that the next job could cover the cash he just blew, which is why he would lag on getting peoples parts etc. He should have learned from MSX you can only do that so long before it catches up with you.
For u guys that are gonna try and sue him, have the recipes ready for proof that u paid his cuz if u don't there is nothing u will be able to do and the only reason I say this cuz a lot of people that considered him a FRIEND paid him cash without receiving a recipe and now they are screwed because they don't have proof that they paid him anything. Hopefully u guys get some justice cuz he has gotten away with too much. For those of u that are missing ur vehicles, I drove by his parents house and by his old shop and no cars except for a red foxbody.