It's pretty odd..
I talked to Alex last year in the late fall/winter. He wanted a Cheetah and his trans built. He said he was actually from Anderson, IN which is pretty close to us (1 hour). He had an Atlanta phone number at that time, but lived in Scottsdale. Lot's of money out there he says.
He wanted to do some things to the truck but then didn't hear from him... I called back a couple weeks later to follow up and he says that he/his truck had been t-boned and they totalled it. I told him to figure out what the buy back was on the truck. We even went back and forth over the phone haggling with an insurance company about the price. We got it down to 4000.00 dollars for a totalled 08 with a good drivetrain.. He said the truck was going to ship whatever day with his new 2008's trans in the bed and I was to build that for him and then ship it back and keep the totalled truck...
Not a bad trade... IMO but not a long shot or too good to be true..
So weeks go by and the truck has shipped to his uncle's or something in Anderson, IN but I couldn't go pick it up, he was going to come down and deliver it for me.. All the while he was going through his 4th divorce or something and waiting on that to move back to IN.
Needless to say none of it happened.. But Mike (MMLMM) calls today and asks about the status of his TWO built shortblocks one of which is a stroker motor ... hehe.. Guy was called to see if I had purchased a stroker crank.. Umm no ....
So Alex has created a real whopper of a story here.. Don't know why exactly???
I do know he talked about disliking Tom Federico for some reason and he also made a point to say he was a homebody, never leaves the house, all tatooed up "I've got sleeves" or something to that nature..
Really kind of an odd situation. Not really happy that our name was used but just glad that nobody's money was taken.
On the bright side though Mike, I've found you a darn near brand new LMM shortblock. Call me tomorrow and we'll get you fixed up
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