The Crappy Corvette!
"I'll find you a real nice low mileage rust free Corvette" - Mark Towle, 2010
Scott Lee was contracted for only one year under the first contract. He agreed to build a Flash site that would spotlight Mark Towle's products and agreed to do a page for each car he was selling at that time a chopper's page, video and a girls page. That total should have been around 10 or 12 Flash pages.
Scott was never allowed to complete what Mark Towle and Kory Geick decided was required after they switched the deal entrapping Scott. Mark Towle and Kory Geick over a 3 year period refused to allow Scott to complete the project and further refused to stop assigning more work to Scott. After a point Scott refused to do any more unless he was working towards a mount of the replica, this included YouTube videos, extra content, photo resizing and Scott was even forced to moderate the Gotham Garage forum to prove his loyalty so he was told. Everything he did, he was told would be applied to his build or he would be paid for it. He has yet to get any payment for any of it. The animated Flash Intro Scott Created alone took him weeks to do and that alone was not required by any agreement. They demanded it and told Scott he had to do it to get his kit.
Mark Towle and Kory Geick refused to allow Scott to come and pick up his Batmobile kit. Scott Couldn't get them to allow him to schedule a shipper. Mark Towle refused to allow him to pick up his kit nor admit he had paid for and earned it even after 3 years of work being accomplished far and above any agreement Scott had ever agreed to. Scott had $3,000 and had been asking for months to pick up his kit. Kory Geick told Scott Lee that the Web work isn't finished and one section isn't done yet he refused to give the text and content to complete this section. At this point Scott told them he was done and going to an attorney to get a demand letter drafted for his kit.
Kory Geick and Mark Towle claimed that Mark Towle would mount his kit for the cost of this "Nice Corvette" after they realized Scott Lee wasn't going any further without his kit, they made an offer to mount it if Scott would pay Mark Towle for a nice California donor Corvette. Scott told them he would find his own Corvette and dismantle it himself because those body and interior parts are worth good cash and could be sold to fund other parts of his build. Mark Towle declined and said he could get a very nice low mileage Corvette and it would save on the cost of shipping a Corvette to him in California. The picture shown here is comparable to the picture Scott was shown and promised the quality that his car would be made from. Scott had a verbal agreement with Mark Towle that absolutely under no circumstances was he to purchase a salvage vehicle nor with a an encumbered title. Mark Towle promised what Scott had demanded, even signed a contract with those terms stated.
What Mark Towle did was unimaginable. He purchased a lien untitled vehicle with $1,300 dollars owed to the state of California in back taxes. Mark Towle had shoved a crap Corvette at Scott Lee, not given him proof of ownership and stuck $1,300 of additional debt on Scott Lee with NO WARNING NOR AGREEMENT TO DO SO. The paperwork provided to Scott Lee from the California DMV proving that Mark Towle attempted to saddle Scott Lee with $1,300 of undeserved debt will be added to this page soon.
Mark Towle told Scott Lee he was buying Scott a daily driver from his friend that was very nice Corvette and that his friend was currently driving it daily with no issues. When Scott Lee called the California DMV they told Scott that his Corvette had not been tagged nor on the road in years. They also told Scott that he would not be allowed to legally remove the vehicle from California until the back taxes had been paid. Mark Towle and Scott Lee were agreed that the donor Corvette would have less than 80,000 original miles on it. The DMV told Scott that they had no way of knowing what the car's actual mileage was. To the right is an image of the beautiful interior of what Mark Towle considers a low mileage very nice California Rust Free Corvette purchased with Scott's $3,000!
Mark Towle was under contract to purchase the donor Corvette and send Scott Lee proof of ownership within 2 weeks after he made the purchase. Mark Towle did nothing of the sort. Mark Towle held onto all paperwork till some 4 months AFTER the deadline of the Contract and Scott had still not gotten any images of the mounting of his kit. Scott Lee thinks Mark Towle obtained the crappy donor well after the contract's deadline by several months. Finally, Mark Towle sent some paperwork and it was not a title but instead lien paperwork that clearly states on it NOT PROOF OF OWNERSHIP.
Scott Lee received a call from a friend after he had viewed this page and being more knowledgeable about insurance claims, he informed Scott Lee that the lien paperwork Scott was sent by Mark Towle obviously came with a salvage title which Mark Towle withheld from Scott and the courts. He explained to Scott that this Corvette had likely been damaged in some devastating way and had been totaled out by an insurance company. Scott Lee never received a title but this would make sense because Mark Towle was clearly made aware that under no circumstances was he to purchase a salvaged vehicle for Scott. All indications are that Mark Towle did purchase a junked Corvette with a salvage title for Scott in direct violation of not only their signed agreement but any and all trust Scott had placed in Mark Towle. Scott figures now, that Mark Towle paid little for the junk Corvette and simply pocketed at least half of Scott's money that he was entrusted to spend wisely on a nice donor car for Scott's build. The levels of betrayal just continue to pile up from Mark Towle against Scott.
"Do not ever trust Mark Towle to purchase a donor car for you.... EVER!"
A previous client of Mark Towle's that also had tremendous problems with Mark Towle called Scott to inform him that Mark Towle, in violation of their agreement also purchased a salvage vehicle to build his replica out of. This person was outraged and explained to Scott that any title that is marked as salvage automatically reduces the value of that car regardless of what it is made into. That is simply a fact. No one under any circumstances should EVER allow Mark Towle to take their money and go find them a donor car. Even after he signs an agreement and gives his word he will likely purchase some POS car and stick you with it. That is if you can ever get it from him at all without hiring an attorney and suing him.
Read what it states on the top of this document, Mark Towle was contracted to provide PROOF OF OWNERSHIP OR CLEAN TITLE and not some bull crap lien paperwork that Scott could never get a title for unless he had the replica in his possession.
Also of note is that the business Angel's Battery that was listed as selling this junked car does not Exist. Their location stated on the paperwork is a Stereo Installation Shop of another name. Go figure.
Take a good listen to Mark Towle in this recording assuring Scott Lee that he had agreed to get a clear title for him. He claims his DMV girl has sent off the paperwork and that he can't rush the DMV. Again this is December 3rd, 2010 and 4 moths past the deadline of the contract. The contract expired on August 14th, 2010. Here is nearly 4 months past the time Mark Towle had agreed he would have the car ready for pick up and he hadn't even sent Scott Lee a title yet. Mark Towle says he doesn't even have the car in his shop yet. This is utter proof that 8 months after signing the contract with Scott he hadn't even brought the donor car into his shop to be mounted.... EIGHT MONTHS! Ironically though every time Mark Towle wanted something from Scott he had to jump right on it and get it done immediately even if it wasn't required by the contract.
Meanwhile, Towle kept demanding more and more work out of Scott Lee and at the same time threatening to sue him from California. In this message, he claims his girl had already sent the paperwork to DMV yet he was able to send the lien paperwork to Scott later so there is no way DMV ever received anything. Obviously Mark Towle tells lies with utter ease while calling someone his "Bro". This proves to everyone the casual practiced liar that Mark Towle clearly is. There can be NO DOUBT!
Listen to this!
Scott Lee will update this page as time goes on, but it's important to get the message out now before any more people fall victim to these clowns.
Mark Towle also signed under contract that anything Scott could use in his replica would be saved for pick up and given to Scott. Mark Towle also violated the contract in this respect as well. There is no part of their contract Mark Towle didn't Breach!
"Do not ever allow Mark Towle to go into an agreement where things are delivered to you at his shop. This turned out to be a pre-planned scam."
Mark Towle claimed Scott had already been given what he was promised and had contracted for and then he made it impossible for Scott to pick up or ever get his hands on his Batmobile Kit that Mark Towle signed within the second contract was Scott's fully owned property.
Below is what Mark Towle purchased with Scott Lee's $3,000 that was supposed to be a low mileage super nice no rust Corvette. This POS looks like it came straight out of a Junk Yard and as far as Scott and his friends can tell, it did. It's sprayed with primer to cover all the rust. This car is a disgrace considering the years of dedicated work Scott Lee completed for Mark Towle and the money Towle was paid.
Obviously this met none of the contract's requirements concerning the Corvette donor Scott was promised.
A salvage vehicle could of had water damage, frame distortion, damaged bearings, anything that would have been a nightmare to fix after this car was delivered.
The wheels and tires purchased with the car were by contract stipulation demanded to be included. Mark Towle made an issue about these wheels and didn't want to include them claiming he had the ability to get a lot of money out of them so Scott would have to settle for whatever he put on the car. Later, Mark Towle said he would include them but of course as is proven now he went 5 years through litigation proving he never planned to give Scott anything all along and was willing to spend tens of thousands in dollars of his own money to keep Scott from ever being compensated at all.
Mark Towle's attorney, Jeremiah Raxter has also made it very clear that Mark Towle still does not intend to pay Scott a dime of what he owes him and stated Mark Towle will be filing for Bankruptcy.
Keep in mind, this Mark Towle was doing to a single Dad that had sacrificed years of his life helping him, paying him $8,000 dollars and building a large Web presence for him. What kind of person does this? If he would do this to someone that helped him and supported him for years, what will he do to you? Who damages someone and his family like Mark Towle and Kory Geick have for no reason? Every claim Mark Towle made against Scott Lee was false and has been proven false, so why and how could anyone be as completely heartless and heinous as Mark Towle and Kory Geick have been to Scott? How horrible would anyone have to be to use and harm someone and his family the way they have intentionally done?
SCOTT LEE DOES NOT RECOMMEND EVER DOING BUSINESS WITH MARK TOWLE NOR KORY GEICK IN ANY WAY!