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Would be worth a few beers with him.  Let's invite him to speak at Carlisle. He seems a little arrogant though.  I can drag my CMC up and he can finish it in 40 hours.

I never thought the hatred was from building difficulties.  I was miffed not to find the dimples in the fiberglass for drilling and cutting holes.  The build manual say they were there (assume on the very first bodies out of the molds).  The back order of parts made the build difficult too (no cell phones so every call to Miami tech/sales team was a long-distance call).

Miffed too about the elimination of numerous "non-profitable? FiberFab models that were eliminated when CMC purchased them.  Now there were some unbuildable models that took lots of custom fabrication.

On the Yahoo CMC/FF site, a guy by name of Donnie said he worked there.  He said all the customer relations staff adopted fake names - so an irate customer wouldn't track them down.  A real shame all records were thrown in a dumpster (after 7 years).  I'd love to know # of each model produced!

Then there's CMC President George G. Levin with his marketing blitz and anti-consumer business model (Classic Motor Carriages (fiberclassics.org)):



It was said that in its prime CMC was doing $15,000,000- $20,000,000 US in revenue and selling hundreds of kits a month. But that all abruptly came to an end in 1994 when the Florida Attorney General filed suit on behalf of hundreds of defrauded customers.

The (1994) suit stated that Classic Motor Carriages defrauded customers by “knowingly and willfully” making “false and misleading promises, statements, representations” when it came to the quality of the kit purchased, as well as the delivery time, and assembly time. They were also taking customer deposits by making false and fraudulent statements, and were not delivering complete kits.

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