russo and steel chop job camaro copo

[Charley Lillard]

From Russo and Steel's point of view.... They sold what they thought was a COPO. The buyer writes a check for the car and leaves with the car. A couple days later the buyer calls and says it is a rebody. Russo has no car or way to verify what the buyer is saying and the buyer has stopped payment on the check. If I were the auction house I would want to keep all the money until the car was back to me and it's condition could be verified be a expert. You come here and bash Russo when in fact you took the car for several days and had stopped payment. I'm told they came and got the car still partially apart. For all they know you might just be some kind of nut. Your issue should be more with the seller that did not disclose the rebody to Russo.
What if I was a seller of a real car that was not rebodied and someone took it home and a couple days later cooked up a rebody story because he had buyers remorse ? Maybe just pop the cowl panel off and mess things up with a welder etc. There is no way for the auction houses to verify every car. It's the people that are bringing the cars that are the problem.

[quick-bowtie]

Very well said..

[Belair62]

Maybe it would have been a good idea to ask some questions here before you went to the auction.

[Les Quam]

He is new to the forum maybe he didn't know about the forum until after he bought the car? I run into many people who don't have any idea how many sharks swim at the auctions when the sharks run their cars through. Heck even when you tell people they still don't believe you sometimes and get ripped off anyway both at dealers and at auctions.

[Jeff H]

I think this car was discussed before as a rebody. I have notes in my database it was listed on Ebay and was a rebody. Here's a related thread from here.

RS COPO Rebody