Committee Member,
Tasmin Challenge
TVRCC
February
19, 2002
Dear
sir,
I am writing to you regarding Ian Moon, who I believe is going to be competing in the Tasmin Challenge Series this year. This individual is singularly dishonest and unscrupulous, and I would respectfully ask that you deny him the chance to participate in any events sanctioned by the TVRCC.
You
are probably aware that I that I am a keen fan of TVR and imported a TVR
Cerbera into the US (after buying it in Hong Kong), which had never been done
before. After a year of enjoying the car, the Cerbera was involved in a fairly
serious accident. I shipped it to England for repair. Ian Moon, whom I had
gotten to know fairly well (I thought) promised he would store the car safely
and take care of looking after the repairs. He had the audacity to lecture me
on trust before undertaking this project.
Ian
stored the car outside, exposed to the elements, from day one. This should have
been my first clue. I did not want to appear too pushy and offend him, so I
stayed quiet, thinking he knew best. But instead of proceeding with repairing
the car, Ian stripped it of virtually every useful part. He also asked for
money for repairs, so I wired him 7,000 GBP immediately. Despite numerous
requests, I never received a proper accounting from him for how he was spending
this money.
As if
this wasn’t bad enough, Ian Moon then transferred the VIN plate from his yellow
Cerbera onto mine, and tried to remove other marks on my car in order to make
it appear as if it was his. Then he took it down to Team Proactive and filed
a fraudulent insurance claim, hoping to collect 28,000 GBP from Norwich Union.
As you know, insurance fraud raises the cost of our hobby for all of us. I
still can’t comprehend why Ian would stoop to this when he had already been
sent ample funds to carry out the repairs. I guess greed knows no boundaries.
The
insurance company was not fooled and the police were summoned, who immediately
towed the car away. I was completely ignorant of course, being in America, and
Ian Moon sent me an email saying the police had towed it away from where it was
stored because it looked like a stolen car. I faxed over all the proof that it
was not stolen (proof of purchase, proof of shipping from Hong Kong to USA,
proof of registration in USA, proof of shipping from USA to England, tow truck
receipts to Blackpool, etc, etc.) and I sent him frantic emails asking about
progress on getting the car back, and if I could help in any way. He seemed
strangely reticent to do anything and was very evasive when I asked him for the
police phone numbers so I could contact them myself.
A
couple of months went by like this, and then Ian somehow managed to get the car
back. Realising that I was not getting anywhere, I asked that he turn over the
car to another mechanic friend of mine. Ian took over a month to arrange for
the half-hour appointment that a tow truck driver needed to collect the car.
The reason for this was clear only after the car was eventually collected. The
brakes, starter, aircon unit, speakers, airboxes, inlet pipes, etc., etc. had
all been removed. Even the alarm system was missing. The car was so stripped
that I had no choice but to sell the engine and drivetrain and give the rest of
it away. Besides the prolonged stress and heartache, I suffered a huge
financial setback.
When
I asked Ian about it, he insisted all the parts were there when he turned the
car over to the tow truck driver. But I have photographs taken on the day it
was picked up, and it would have taken more than a day to remove all the parts
that are missing. That could not have been done between the time Ian turned the
car over and the time that the photographs were taken. This clearly proves
Ian’s culpability. Furthermore, Ian then sent me an itemization of parts he
claimed he had bought and work he claimed had been done on the car, which added
up to about 3500 GBP. If he did buy anything, it is most certainly on his car,
not mine, or stored in his garage along with all the parts taken from my car.
As for the work done, rust on the relevant bolts prove that those parts have
never been touched.
I
have also found out that Ian has since dissolved his business and changed his
home telephone number, reducing me to sending pleading emails and trying to
coax him to pay me back at least partially.
I was
unaware of all the intricate details until last month, when I finally got the
remnants of my car back, and a chance conversation led to things clicking into
place. I have confirmed all of the above with Norwich Union, Adrian Winbridge
at Team Proactive, and numerous other parties. Ian Moon has still not paid me
back my money, but because he is unaware that I now know the truth, keeps
sending me email after email packed with lies in the hope of stringing me along
and keeping me quiet. I am also aware that Ian Moon is involved in
disagreements and litigation with other members of the TVR community.
I am
willing to provide various parties’ contact information, copies of bank
transfer statements, shipping documents, copies of emails, and any other proof
you need to corroborate that this really happened, incredible as it seems. In
light of the sheer scale of Ian’s dishonesty, I would like to request that you
revoke his membership and ban him from participating in your events.
Auto
racing is a gentleman’s sport, requiring impeccable sportsmanship and fair
play. This individual possesses none of these qualities. He is so lacking in
ethics that he will cheat and con his way to the podium if given half a chance,
ruining the sport for participants and spectators alike, and bringing the event
and the club into disrepute in the eyes of the police, the factory, the
insurance industry, and the general public.
Thank
you very much,
Faisal
Khan.
If you have read this far…thanks.
To Ian, all I can say is, have
fun in jail, because that’s exactly where you will end up when I am done with
you!
Don’t drop that soap (an American expression about exposing your arse to the
rampantly gay prison population)…
I will enable each of the links below as I create the relevant webpages.
Latest developments |
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December
11, 2000 |
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February 22, 2002 |
Ian Moon writes…and I reply to each of his points. Click here to read |
Proof of shipping of car and other parts to England
Proof of funds transferred to Ian on May 29, 2001 (My account number has been erased)
Proof of funds transferred to Ian on June 06 2001 (My account number has been erased)
List of items missing/stolen from car
Adrian
Winbridge - Team Proactive
0121.344.3400
Norwich Union -
Glen Sheridan
02380.375489
James Birkby – TVR
Military and Diplomatic Sales
01756.798.172
Detective
Inspector Burke, Fleetwood Police
01253 604 371 direct
01772 614 444
DC Neil Smith - Lancaster Police
01524.596642
