I haven't found anything saying USCT has filed bankruptcy & the OP credit card receipt says USCT & it wasn't his failure company that collected

Nice guy this John

That looks like a scam for sure

Alright, grab a tall drink, this one's gonna be lengthy....

Those of you who have been on this board for a considerable time might remember John's first public project offering. Late in 2002-early 2003, he made an offer to the Moparts members; He was developing a car rotisserie. For a limited time those who bought in advance would receive the "group buy" rate and save considerably over the eventual released price. In this way, John would be able to get financing for the project and the members would benefit from the discount. Everybody wins.

I was one of the buyers. I wasn't a member of the Moparts board at the time, but in January 2003, contacted John when I read the thread. Even though I was late, he let me in on the buy. THAT project ended up taking a lot longer than John had planned (I still have the back and forth updates and emails).

At the Mopar Nationals that year I spoke with him as I still hadn't gotten my rotisserie while others had. He apologized for the wait and offered the display rotisserie after it's use at the show. I accepted. John will definitely remember this...we had to break down the rotisserie and stuff it into a Stratus for the ride home! There were pics of this on his website for awhile.

At that time we spoke quite a bit about projects he had in the works or was considering....he was quite excited about the advantages that CNC, laser and other technologies afforded him. He spoke of the driveshaft loops and some Charger parts he was looking into, never mentioning TWO different companies, BTW.

Forward to 2005 Mopar Nationals. John is there with his U.S. Car Tool booth. The booth features his rotisserie display with first generation Charger on it, the driveshaft loop (I believe) and a prototype of the Charger decklid piece on display. Once again, all under one business as displayed at the Nats. If I can find them, I have pictures of that booth.

Johns pitch to me - and obviously those on the '66/'67 Charger board - was very similar to his first proposition. Once he received $275.00 from 50 buyers he would manufacture the decklid medallion. NEVER ONCE WAS THIS APPROACHED AS AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. This was an advance payment on an item purchased. The advance buyers would receive the discount for helping to finance the project and John would receive the benefit of being the only game in town to sell the piece. Sound familiar?

As I had dealt with John before, I knew that there may be a chance that this would take awhile, but I felt things would come through eventually. Since the price seemed more than fair, I went for it. I then waited, and waited, and waited.

I convinced myself that this project must have been very difficult to do (after all, at that time nobody else had it) and waited some more.

Finally years went by and emails weren't answered nor phone calls. This brings us to a simple fact: my money has been stolen by a man that I trusted.

BTW...Amongst my old correspondence with John, I have an April 15, 2003 email update that is signed John Pasemann, www.USCarTool.com, 974-219-6142. The decklid piece was sold in 2005 in a booth with the same name. If he is claiming a whole other company, where was it?

I'm sorry for the length of this and hope it's not too confusing!

Thanks again for the support folks!
Tom

If John shows up at the Nats next year, I bet he has the most interesting booth by far.

As quoted by a good friend of mine who will read this

"it sounds to me like engineering psycho babbling [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean]"

To the person who said this please text me when you read this because I know you just spit your drink through your computer screen.

I read the entire post initially and am content with what I wrote as questions to clarify the issue without taking sides. Glad John posted a reply. Some will hate the response and others may not. It reminds me of the foreclosure debate where some were saying people should stop paying their mortgage payments, stay in the house as long as possible, let it get foreclosed on( after drawing it out as long as possible) then simply walk away without a care in the world and no moral responsibility to make good on the contract.leave that for another time perhaps.

Several posts,
recommend that you,
read the entire thread, not just me,
I suggested it, simply because,
many of your questions/comments were answered already (multiple times even).
Maybe you're "satisfied" with what you wrote,
BUT,
if you're truly wanting answers to your questions/comments, they're in the thread, if you take the time to read it.
Unless...
you aren't actually, looking for answers, in which case...
that's something else entirely,
isn't it?
Either way, read it, or don't, doesn't matter to me,
I'm not looking to "stir-the-pot",
I'm just hoping to see resolution...

It was engineering psyco babble & he believed himself when he typed it.

I knew a guy once who chased investers for his wrecked cars
That joker would climb the highest tower to tell a lie when he could have stood on the ground & told the truth

In all of it there would be pieces of the truth

In the end he made sure everyone got all their money back though

I just got my text message

JP, your statement reminds me of Barry Grant's tirade on yellow bullet. look what happened to him.

in case you missed it
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68154

I guess we will just disagree and since your not in a position to clarify I will just leave it at that.

Lol
Clarify?! Really?!
Why are you coming at me?

I've read the entire thread
and I'm here for one reason,
to hopefully see some resolution,
not argue with you

Here's some clarification;
The "odd" op, with the "odd story" that "doesn't add up" or "make sense"
isn't the ONLY 1 of the 50 on this thread, there are at least 3 of the 50. (That info is in the thread)
They didn't wait 8yrs, they had communications as late as 12 or 13 from JP, it was 8yrs of excuses from JP.
(That info is also in the thread)

Want more, "clarification"?
Read the thread, I'm not going to be your "cliffs notes" for the entire thread.
As I already stated, read it or don't I don't give a....either way, if you're a JP fanboy, then sing his praises and move on, stop coming at me.

Y'all don't disturb the flushing of JP down the Moparts toilet as it need's to be archived & you guys don't want a VAY KAY like Mike was talking about

About time... What goes around comes around... Karma is a bit@h!

I worked for this guy when he was starting up. what a piece of work. he NEVER had ANY tooling of any kind. he ask me to find him a toolmaker for a injection mold since I had done this kind of work. when he got the quote he said NO WAY cost too much.

have you ever seen a complete car come from his shop???

he never liked doing cars from anyone local. every car we had was from out of state so he could charge the customer for work that was never done.

we had a guy in the shop die and he did not let us go to his services,said there was no time for that. also kept the guys last check, said he did not need it were he was going. we all quit shortly after.

the guys at the shop were all waiting for the day someone would walk thru the door and take him out for stealing there $$$.

ashame this was not posted on yellowbullet.com. the case would be closed by now.