Damaged T-Bucket still on the truck

Hi,

About a month ago I bought a 1922 Model T-Bucket from Blue Sky Classic Cars

located in Budd Lake New Jersey my contact was Alan Fox (973)691-8000. I had

the car shipped by Reliable Auto Transport located in West Plains, MO.

e-mail address "Email User" my contact was Adam Talburt

(800)689 6498. Reliable subcontracted the transport of my T-Bucket to Muscle

Cars, Inc. located in Shawnee KS my contact was Darin "last name unknown"

office (913) 422 1120, cell (913) 706 6998.

After the driver picked up the car and got into Florida the state where I

live, he called and said that he had to deliver a Ferrari in Jacksonville

then he would be in Cape Canaveral around 8:00 PM. The driver also said that

the Ferrari was in front of my car and that he had to remove my car to get

to the Ferrari. Well I didn't get a call from the driver until around

midnight and he wanted to deliver the car at that time and it was also

raining; note, this was a message he left on my cell phone I went to bed at

11:00PM.

The next day the driver called around 7:00 AM and wanted to drop the car off

and said he was running late for his next delivery. I took several pictures

of the T-Bucket but the one that shows the damage is the picture of the car

still on the truck "picture attached". I didn't notice the damage right away

because as you can see it is under the car, and I was more concern about

looking for visual damage. When I drove the car in the parking lot I noticed

right away that something was wrong but I was not familiar with the car and

it wasn't until after the driver left when I found the damage. I reported it

to Adam at reliable and said that I had pictures of the damage and the car

on the truck. I also called Alan at Blue Sky and he said that they took

pictures before it was put on the truck, and the car was not damaged. Adam

at Reliable said that was enough evidence to get me reimbursed for the

repairs that was ($378.00).

Darin at Muscle Cars has said that he talked to his driver and the car was

not moved from the truck once it was loaded in Budd Lake, he also said that

they don't remove cars once they are loaded. This statement was wrong

because the driver had to remove a Rolls-Royce to get my car unloaded, and I

have those pictures too if needed. The bottom line is no one is excepting

the responsibility damaging my car, thus the repairs are coming out of my

pocket. I work for NASA at Kennedy Space Center in Florida as an Auditor, I

been doing this for 35 years and I must say that the root cause for the

damage to my T-Bucket is the Transporter.

I have made several attempts in contacting all the individuals above in an

unsuccessful effort to getting this issue resolved. Below is the last e-mail

I sent in what seems a useless effort on my behalf.

Thank you for your support,

Ken

Cape Canaveral, FL 32920

-----Original Message-----

From: Ken [mailto:Email User]

Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:45 AM

To: 'Email User'

Cc: 'Blue Sky Classic Cars'

Subject: T-Bucket still on the truck

Adam, Alan, Darin,

I hope my efforts are not useless and to prove that I didn't damage my

T-Bucket I have pointed out three areas in this picture of my T-Bucket still

on the truck. Where you will see the shock shifted to the right and not in

the same position as the other shock, the panhard rod laying on top of the

rear end housing, and the other end of the panhard rod broken laying and

pointing to the right.

This picture shows without a doubt that the panhard was broken prior to

delivery and removal from the truck. Is this the type of business you offer

your customers? Where does the fault lay? Who will make this right?

Ken Delaney

321 323 4373