Jail for Fake GT Falcon

[hx-sandman]

As the title suggests, jail time for duping a purchaser.

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/182...-seller/?cs=95

[buck]

yeah well i think the bloke got his just dessert, i hate people who go out of there way to rip off uniformed people, obvioulsy the bloke should have done a revs check before he bought it, but its amazing how may people dont know about revs or in vic, its free on the vic roads website, to do a check on any car in vic.

[mauser]

Jail for fake GT Falcon seller

A PLUMBER who deceived a man into buying a fake Ford Falcon GT XY has been jailed for three months.
Shane John Hammond, 45, of Oatlands, was last month found guilty of dishonestly acquiring a financial advantage.

In 2007, Hammond sold a fake Ford Falcon GT XY for $85,000 and related items for $4500 to a man identified as Mr Griffin, knowing it was a rebodied vehicle.
In passing sentence on July 18, Justice Helen Wood said Hammond was aware the car was a rebodied vehicle when he bought it off a friend.
Justice Wood said Hammond offered to buy it as a V8 Falcon for $45,000, along with an unattached compliance plate from a genuine GT XY.
She said Hammond then sold it as a genuine Ford Falcon GT to Mr Griffin about two months later, grinding existing numbers off the top of the strut tower, then stamping the body and the engine block with numbers and letters to correspond with the unattached compliance plate.

"Mr Griffin took out a mortgage on his unencumbered home to finance the purchase and restoration work,'' Justice Wood said.
"After purchasing the car, Mr Griffin spent approximately $40,000 on restoration work. That would not have been an over-capitalisation if it had been a genuine GT XY Falcon.''
Justice Wood said about 2 1/2 years later, after the car had been brought to showroom condition, Mr Griffin tried to register it to discover the plate belonged to a stolen vehicle.
"The vehicle is in fact a 1970 XW Falcon. It cannot be registered in the future, the value of the vehicle in today's market in its immaculate restored condition is approximately $9000,'' she said.
"The deception has had a devastating effect on Mr Griffin. He has incurred interest on the loan in the amount of approximately $49,000 and the total amount he has lost attributable to this offence is $180,287.''

Justice Wood said Hammond had agreed to a compensation order of $171,287.55 and acknowledged the impact a jail term would take on his business.
She sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment from June 25, suspended after three months.

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Again... this is the reason we shouldn't be advising people on this site to rebody any rusty Sandman or to match plates to chassis numbers. If they do that it is on their own accord and not on our advice.


...... and if you have, for PG13's sake, don't publish it to the world on here or anywhere else.


Mauser

[jennie285]

I advised a lady trying to sell a kingwood windowless panel van at the swap meet, and saying it was a sandman, that it wasnt and explained our reason, which was the id plate being n and not m, she said thanks, and I was polite, unlike others who had been rude to her, she didn't realize and had been ill advised. I told her I only wanted to let her know that there can be litigations, and used this thread story as an example...

[playwme]

Mr Griffin needs a good kicking up the arse for borrowing money to restore a car as well. $49,000 in interest alone?

Brings a whole new side to the old "Is it still a Sandman if the chassis or body has been changed" debate when there are chumps like Mr Griffin around.

[HK1837]

Jail for fake GT Falcon seller



[/COLOR]Again... this is the reason we shouldn't be advising people on this site to rebody any rusty Sandman or to match plates to chassis numbers. If they do that it is on their own accord and not on our advice.




Mauser

Fair call. It is a slightly different prospect with HQ-WB Holdens where the chassis number stays on the chassis and isn't stamped into an integral part of the body, but the prospect of fraud still exists. I would still replace a body of a say rusty HQ Sandman ute with another body rather than fix the original but that is just me!

[hx-sandman]

Don't think Tasmania has an equivalent of REVS. If it's registered you can check for finance encumbrance

[Vombil]

very obvious the plumber set out to defraud an unassuming and ill-informed member of the public. 3 months in the can should be plenty of time to think about it

[Sandaro]

Had this beautiful girlfriend once, spent thousands keeping her happy. Turns out she was all fake. Do you think I could sue the plastic surgeon??

[thatotherguy]

when you say she was a fake does that mean she was really a man? ........