This has been done to death. I also have been following this from the begining. My first intruduction to the casper thread was Stanglover ringing me with a please explain as to why it was costing what it was to do his Eleanor. I told him to sit tight & watch Casper unfold. Needless to say Stanglover is a happy boy now.
Its a sad & sorry story as we all know, but I understand Rick being cut & I also understand Matt feeling the same way. From my understanding Matt has gone out on a limb trying to hook up a brother & it has turned to shi7. Similar end result to the original hookin up a brother, but for different reasons. (my ar$e is still bleeding from that one)
My opinion is Matt hasnt "Ripped" anyone. To rip someone off involves financial gain. I know what it costs to build these cars & I reckon Matt has torn up 8 to 10k over this deal. Rick has probaly torn up a similar figure. No one wins, everyone looses. Life goes on.
Rick, just get on with building your car mate. Once its finished to how you imagined all this will seem like a bad dream & you can get happy. In reality your car will owe you around the same coin as Stanglover spent. Its what it costs no matter how you crunch it. As I say to anyone wanting to build a "GOOD" Eleanor, if you dant have 100k minimum dont bother.
Matt, shi7 happens, no one can keep everyone happy all of the time. Got a horror story or 2 of my own. The worst one involves using sub contractor. Its hard to control things that arent done under your roof. As long as the happy far outweigh the sad then we must be doing something right. The sad are still entitled to feel the way they do, we just need to learn from why they are pi$$ed & avoid the same mistakes down the road.
As for Rocks story I dont know enough to comment, from what I can gather he is getting on with getting it on the road & power to him for that.
Cage's car I am obviously well versed in. Cage is a stand up guy & he is just carrying on with getting the car done. No whinging, no tears. We had a good chat when the car arrived & the decision was made to just make it a beast of a car & let history be history. Also what the car owed landed wasnt that far off its market value anyway. Had the mexicans not got involved & a few k wasted there it would have been a very good buy. By the end of this year it will be tearing up the streets & the sad times will be gone.