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Complaint Review: Drake Customs - Internet
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Drake Customs
905 Port St 86403 Internet, United States of America
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877-647-1193
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Drake Customs Recon Classic Car Bodies and Performance, Classic Mustang FRAUD! Internet
In December 2008 I placed an order with Drake Customs (now known as "Recon Classic Car Bodies and Performance") for a 67 Mustang fastback shell. After wiring a deposit, (owner) Ray Carmody told me I'd receive my car by March 2009. A few weeks later, they said they were 1/2 done and asked me to wire them part of the remaining balance, which I did. A month later, they said they were done and to wire the balance, which I did. The total wired: $10,181.00. When I started asking about delivery, they said they were just waiting on the title and it would take a few weeks. OK. When I called back a month later "Still no title, just a while longer", "We need to finish up a couple more little things, just a while longer".
OK. Then whenever I called back I got a lot of "Ray's not here right now, let me look into your file and call you back," followed by no calls back. This went on for months. I finally got so frustrated I drove 4+ hours to Arizona in August 2009 just to talk to someone. Again, Ray Carmody "wasn't there" and it turns out they hadn't even started building my car! After 13 more months of their stall tactics and excuses and 4 different shop managers, I AM DONE! But they won't refund my money (because they don't have it) and they won't tell me if or when I'm going to get a car - "We're working on it," "We'll make it up to you," excuses, excuses...
After a total of 21 months of lies and waiting for a car that was supposed to be completed in 3 months, my patience has run out. I have opened a fraud case with the Arizona Attorney General against them. At least one other person I know of has also done this. I suspect this is why they've recently changed their name because the truth about "Drake Customs" is starting to come out. According to shop manager Bobby Morris they have taken money from approximately 20-25 customers who are waiting for cars but now they have given us no estimated delivery times. This is unacceptable. This is fraud.
AVOID, AVOID, AVOID Drake Customs, Recon Classic Car Bodies and Performance, Ray Carmody and Bobby Morris!
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Bill
NEW TRIPOLI,Pennsylvania,
United States
Ray Carmody King of Vin Tag Tampering
#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Thu, September 21, 2023
I am posting this, to hopefully cut down on the calls asking me about Ray Carmody. Ray Carmody is a Pathological Narcissist, Ray Carmody and Kristin Hughes are a criminal team. I watched them con and rob their partners at R3PP, I called Ray and Kristin out on robbing R3PP to one of the owners, as fast as I could come up with the truth, he came up with a lie that overtook the truth. That is how good of a con man Ray is. I watched Ray and Kristin ruin people’s lives to better there’s without a single thought of their victims. I also watched Ray Carmody switch a bunch of vin tags cheating customers into thinking they were buying a real Factory Mustang instead of a reproduction Mustang. I also watch Ray commit environmental crimes. (I have photos of all this) Ray Carmody and Kristin Hughes are the most dishonest people I have ever met. They conned and cheated me. Ray Carmody is: A thief with no boundaries. Pathological liar. Con Man Manipulator Ray is a criminal that was caught in his past and never learnt his lesson. Stay Far away from Ray Carmody and Kristin Hughes, or you might become another victim, like I am. It was the San Bernadino County sheriff that determined that I was another one of Ray’s victims. I had 7 cars Ray refused to give me for 11 months and a bunch of parts too. When I got my property back all 7 cars were damaged, and Ray stole a bunch of parts from me. Example: I called Ray while in the R3PP yard about parts and a very heavy hood that was missing. Ray tried to tell me it blew out of the trailer; I was using 4-foot sides on the trailer and several straps. This took place with 5 people listening to our conversation when I called Ray about my missing parts in R3PP yard. The authorities are fully aware that Ray Carmody is the king of vin tag tampering, they also know about Kristin Hughes who helps Ray.
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David
Broken Arrow,Oklahoma,
United States
Beware of Ray Carmody and R3PP
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, January 25, 2023
BEWARE OF RAY CARMODY
AND R3 PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS
502 / 602 / 604 N. Redbud Avenue
Broken Arrow, OK 74012
918-957-5090
Raymond Brian Carmody II
AKA Ray Carmody
AKA Brian Carmody
COO, R3 Performance Products
Tulsa Home (Sold in May 2022)
11963 S 274th E Avenue
Coweta, OK 74429
714-679-5506 CELL
562-448-3115 CELL
714-785-7934 CELL
760-364-3001 Work CA
CA Home (Original Home)
1240 Birch Tree Court
La Habra, CA 90631
AZ Home (Current Home)
1715 Onyx Lane,
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
SEX: M HAIR: BROWN EYES: GREEN HEIGHT: 5’ 11” WEIGHT: 218 DOB: XX/XX/1978
Raymond Brian Carmody II is a convicted criminal con man and felon with a long history of cheating people out of their money and sometimes their automobiles. Carmody is currently on probation in the State of Arizona for 3 counts of felony theft from customers from his previous and now defunct company Drake Customs LLC of 3979 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86404, phone number 928-855-3733. His Probation Officer is Terra Sears of the Mohave County Probation Department of 515 E. Beale Street, Kingman, Arizona, 86401, phone number 928-753-0741, extension 5405, [email protected]. His company R3 Performance Products is currently paying Carmody’s $1,300 per month restitution to the State of Arizona to clear his $216,962.60 debt to six Drake Customs victims; Frank Gok, Eddie Diaz, Robert Delord, Brian Schultz, Randy Formby, and Robert Moehring. He plead guilty under Arizona case number S-8015-CR-201200166 on August 9th, 2013. Carmody was given 5 years probation, violated it, and then given another 5 years probation on February 1st, 2019.
Carmody had been previously sued by customer Luke Walters under Arizona case number CV-201002314 on October 18th, 2010 for breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud related to restoration of his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro and damages of $80,689.29. Carmody was also sued by Raymond Alabama under California case number CIVDS1607125 for negligence and fraud related to personal injury and falsifying an automobile title and paperwork on May 6th, 2016. Carmody and R3 Performance Products were sued by customer Joshua Reis of 1611 12th Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90019, phone number 323-893-5480, [email protected], under California case number SCVA2000647 on June 11th, 2020 for poor workmanship, fit and finish issues, and damages of $10,000 to his body shell and parts during “reconditioning” of his 1966 Mustang convertible.
Carmody has operated in the automotive restoration and body shell business under the names Drake Customs LLC, Recon Classic Car Bodies, Recon Performance Products, West Coast Commercial Services and now R3 Performance Products. Ray currently has a side shop at 20211 E. 83rd St. So. in Broken Arrow, OK for off-the-books projects.
According to former R3 General Manager, Bill Schaffhouser, Carmody and R3 were (and still are) under investigation by Christopher Jones of the San Bernadino County Sheriff’s Office, phone number 760-366-4175, [email protected], related to multiple customer complaints of VIN tampering and fraud when they decided to abruptly move from California to Oklahoma in 2019. Covid and the move to Oklahoma helped delay these ongoing investigations. Mr. Schaffhouser was told by the Sheriff’s office that they considered R3 a “chop shop.” Mr. Schaffhouser can be reached for addition background information at 951-553-0292. Mr. Schaffhouser has also spoken to Ray’s Probation Officer, Terra Sears, Johannes Van Den Hoogen of the FBI, 949-933-6564, and Joseph Perea of the California DMV Investigations, 951-697-6779, [email protected] about Ray and R3.
More recently an R3 customer in Oklahoma, Mr. Thomas Christopher Hall of 4210 Woodmark Drive, Harrah, Oklahoma 73045, phone number 405-249-0280, [email protected], has filed a complaint with the Broken Arrow Police Department, case number 22-49905, under Detective Mikka Mooney, phone number 918-829-1296, [email protected], because his 1968 Ford Mustang, VIN 8F02X17674 was to be “restored” by R3 under the direction of Ray Carmody but the car he received from R3 didn’t have its Ford factory stamped VIN number. Carmody and R3 didn’t restore his car. They built him a car with a new unlicensed and unofficial R3 Mustang body shell and illegally moved his dash VIN tag from his original body shell to this new car. Which is VIN TAMPERING. His original factory stamped VIN number remains on his original body shell, which he has demanded be returned, but has disappeared within the Ray Carmody off-the-books operation somewhere between Oklahoma, Arizona and California. This is THEFT. His original 1968 Ford Mustang fastback body shell, rust and all, is worth about $25,000 as is. Ray Carmody misrepresented that Mr. Hall’s Mustang would retain its value due to R3PP’s Official Mustang and Bronco Body Shell and Reconditioning License from The Ford Motor Company. Ray Carmody knew full well that Mr. Hall’s Mustang wasn’t reconditioned, which simply means restoring his original body shell, and that new body Mustang builds are not as valuable as all-original vehicles. And the R3PP Ford body shell license had expired on September 30th, 2020 BEFORE Mr. Hall’s Mustang was completed and delivered in January 2021. Mr. Hall’s project was not submitted to Ford as a reconditioning nor a new body shell and no licensing fee was paid to Ford. The final invoice given to Mr. Hall at that time says Official Licensed Ford Body Shell Reconditioning, which it was not reconditioned or licensed by Ford. R3 gave Mr. Hall a car, which he has over $200,000 invested in, that he CANNOT legally drive and CANNOT legally sell. This is obviously major FRAUD. BAPD is currently investigating. Mr. Hall filed suit against R3 and Ray Carmody for fraud, unjust enrichment, negligence, breach of contract, etc. under Oklahoma case #CJ-2022-3350 on 11/4/2022.
Additional Legal Cases in Ray Carmody’s Home County of Orange, California:
Carmody Raymond B Respondent 93D08235 Aug 24, 1993
Carmody Ray Defendant 93FL9004 Dec 17, 1993
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant 97NT2839 Nov 5, 1997
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant 558293 Apr 6, 1999
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant KR2413 Aug 10, 1999
Carmody Raymond B Petitioner 01D001591 Feb 21, 2001
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant 646330 Feb 26, 2001
Carmody II Raymond Brian Defendant 02CC11090 Jun 25, 2002
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant LH370939 Jan 18, 2005
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant IRM240299 Sep 24, 2005
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant FL806604 Jan 3, 2008
Carmody Ray B Respondent 08D004391 May 14, 2008
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant PL287521 Jan 6, 2009
Additional R3 Persons of Interest
Bradley “Brad” Don Goodin (Ray’s hand-picked General Manager for R3 in Broken Arrow / Tulsa)
11908 S. 227th W. Avenue, Sapulpa, OK 74066 – 918-406-2292 CELL / 918-957-5090 Work
Oklahoma Case 420-CR-00181-GKF – Plead Guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact with 3 Minors under 12 on April 28th, 2021. This former Bristow Police Officer was arrested November 14th, 2019 prior to being hired at R3 with Ray’s full knowledge. He is currently serving 15 years in Federal prison. Also charged with Felony possession of 21 firearms.
Kristin Hughes (Carmody) For More Info:
Original R3 Office Manager, Ray’s Common Law Wife Google “Ray Carmody Scam” or “Ray Carmody Fraud”
909-460-5544 / 760-909-0846 CELL (Keeper of Ray’s Secrets) https://www.stangfix.com/threads/r3pp.24573/
[email protected] / [email protected] https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/drake-customs/internet/drake-customs-recon-classic-car-bodies-and-performance-classic-mustang-fraud-internet-643707
https://www.allfordmustangs.com/threads/1967-mustang-coupe-to-fastback-conversion.101863/page-2
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/eleanorinspired1967mustangfastback/drake-customs-t2378.html
Bill Schaffhouser *BE ADVISED – Despite their continued claims
Previous General Manager, R3 Performance Products otherwise, to be clear, R3 IS NOT FORD LICENSED
531 Old Woman Springs Rd., Yucca Valley, CA 92284 in any way, shape, or form. R3 lost their Official
760-364-3001 Work Ford licensing on 9/30/2020. The Ford contacts
760-818-2897 CELL are Kevin Powell at [email protected] and
951-533-0292 CELL David Rudd at [email protected]. BEWARE OF R3!
[email protected] / [email protected]
(Past R3 GM. Contact him for more on R3 and Ray’s criminal history. He is more than happy to fill in the details.)
Ray
Broken Arrow,Oklahoma,
United States
Ray Scam Carmody R3 Drake Customs
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, January 19, 2023
BEWARE OF RAY CARMODY
AND R3 PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS
502 / 602 / 604 N. Redbud Avenue
Broken Arrow, OK 74012
918-957-5090
Raymond Brian Carmody II
AKA Ray Carmody
AKA Brian Carmody
COO, R3 Performance Products
Tulsa Home (Sold in May 2022)
11963 S 274th E Avenue
Coweta, OK 74429
714-679-5506 CELL
562-448-3115 CELL
714-785-7934 CELL
760-364-3001 Work CA
CA Home (Original Home)
1240 Birch Tree Court
La Habra, CA 90631
AZ Home (Current Home)
1715 Onyx Lane,
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
SEX: M HAIR: BROWN EYES: GREEN HEIGHT: 5’ 11” WEIGHT: 218 DOB: XX/XX/1978
Raymond Brian Carmody II is a convicted criminal con man and felon with a long history of cheating people out of their money and sometimes their automobiles. Carmody is currently on probation in the State of Arizona for 3 counts of felony theft from customers from his previous and now defunct company Drake Customs LLC of 3979 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City, Arizona 86404, phone number 928-855-3733. His Probation Officer is Terra Sears of the Mohave County Probation Department of 515 E. Beale Street, Kingman, Arizona, 86401, phone number 928-753-0741, extension 5405, [email protected]. His company R3 Performance Products is currently paying Carmody’s $1,300 per month restitution to the State of Arizona to clear his $216,962.60 debt to six Drake Customs victims; Frank Gok, Eddie Diaz, Robert Delord, Brian Schultz, Randy Formby, and Robert Moehring. He plead guilty under Arizona case number S-8015-CR-201200166 on August 9th, 2013. Carmody was given 5 years probation, violated it, and then given another 5 years probation on February 1st, 2019.
Carmody had been previously sued by customer Luke Walters under Arizona case number CV-201002314 on October 18th, 2010 for breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud related to restoration of his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro and damages of $80,689.29. Carmody was also sued by Raymond Alabama under California case number CIVDS1607125 for negligence and fraud related to personal injury and falsifying an automobile title and paperwork on May 6th, 2016. Carmody and R3 Performance Products were sued by customer Joshua Reis of 1611 12th Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90019, phone number 323-893-5480, [email protected], under California case number SCVA2000647 on June 11th, 2020 for poor workmanship, fit and finish issues, and damages of $10,000 to his body shell and parts during “reconditioning” of his 1966 Mustang convertible.
Carmody has operated in the automotive restoration and body shell business under the names Drake Customs LLC, Recon Classic Car Bodies, Recon Performance Products, Desert Classic Mustangs, West Coast Commercial Services and now R3 Performance Products. Ray currently has a side shop at 20211 E. 83rd St. So. in Broken Arrow, OK.
According to former R3 General Manager, Bill Schaffhouser, Carmody and R3 were (and still are) under investigation by Christopher Jones of the San Bernadino County Sheriff’s Office, phone number 760-366-4175, [email protected], related to multiple customer complaints of VIN tampering and fraud when they decided to abruptly move from California to Oklahoma in 2019. Covid and the move to Oklahoma helped delay these ongoing investigations. Mr. Schaffhouser was told by the Sheriff’s office that they considered R3 a “chop shop.” Mr. Schaffhouser can be reached for addition background information at 951-553-0292. Mr. Schaffhouser has also spoken to Ray’s Probation Officer, Terra Sears, Johanne VanDenhoogen of the FBI, 949-933-6564, and Joseph Perea of the California DMV Investigations, 951-697-6779, [email protected] about Ray and R3.
More recently an R3 customer in Oklahoma, Mr. Thomas Christopher Hall of 4210 Woodmark Drive, Harrah, Oklahoma 73045, phone number 405-249-0280, [email protected], has filed a complaint with the Broken Arrow Police Department, case number 22-49905, Detective Mikka Mooney, phone number 918-829-1296, [email protected], because his 1968 Ford Mustang, VIN 8F02X17674 was to be “restored” by R3 under the direction of Ray Carmody but the car he received from R3 didn’t have its Ford factory stamped VIN number. Carmody and R3 didn’t restore his car. They built him a car with a new unlicensed and unofficial R3 Mustang body shell and illegally moved his dash VIN tag from his original body shell to this new car. Which is VIN TAMPERING. His original factory stamped VIN number remains on his original body shell, which he has demanded be returned, but has disappeared within the Ray Carmody business operation somewhere between Oklahoma, Arizona and California. This is THEFT. His original 1968 Ford Mustang fastback body shell, rust and all, is worth about $25,000 as is. Ray Carmody misrepresented that Mr. Hall’s Mustang would retain its value due to R3PP’s Official Mustang and Bronco Body Shell and Reconditioning License from The Ford Motor Company. Ray Carmody knew full well that Mr. Hall’s Mustang wasn’t reconditioned, which simply means restoring his original body shell, and that new body Mustang builds are not as valuable as all-original vehicles. And the R3PP Ford body shell license had expired on September 30th, 2020 BEFORE Mr. Hall’s Mustang was completed and delivered in January 2021. Mr. Hall’s project was not submitted to Ford as a reconditioning nor a new body shell and no licensing fee was paid to Ford. The final invoice given to Mr. Hall at that time says Official Licensed Ford Body Shell Reconditioning, which it was not reconditioned or licensed by Ford. R3 gave Mr. Hall a car, which he has over $200,000 invested in, that he CANNOT legally drive and CANNOT legally sell. This is obviously major FRAUD. BAPD is currently investigating. Mr. Hall filed suit against R3 and Ray Carmody for fraud, unjust enrichment, negligence, breach of contract, etc. under Oklahoma case #CJ-2022-3350 on 11/4/2022.
Additional Legal Cases in Ray Carmody’s Home County of Orange, California:
Carmody Raymond B Respondent 93D08235 Aug 24, 1993
Carmody Ray Defendant 93FL9004 Dec 17, 1993
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant 97NT2839 Nov 5, 1997
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant 558293 Apr 6, 1999
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant KR2413 Aug 10, 1999
Carmody Raymond B Petitioner 01D001591 Feb 21, 2001
Carmody Raymond Brian Defendant 646330 Feb 26, 2001
Carmody II Raymond Brian Defendant 02CC11090 Jun 25, 2002
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant LH370939 Jan 18, 2005
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant IRM240299 Sep 24, 2005
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant FL806604 Jan 3, 2008
Carmody Ray B Respondent 08D004391 May 14, 2008
Carmody Ray Brian Defendant PL287521 Jan 6, 2009
Additional R3 Persons of Interest
Bradley “Brad” Don Goodin (Ray’s hand-picked General Manager for R3 in Broken Arrow / Tulsa)
11908 S. 227th W. Avenue, Sapulpa, OK 74066 – 918-406-2292 CELL / 918-957-5090 Work
Oklahoma Case 420-CR-00181-GKF – Plead Guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact with 3 Minors under 12 on April 28th, 2021. This former Bristow Police Officer was arrested November 14th, 2019 prior to being hired at R3 with Ray’s full knowledge. He is currently serving 15 years in Federal prison. Also charged with Felony possession of 21 firearms.
Kaitlyn Nelson-Blackford Kristin Hughes
Office Manager, R3 Performance Products Past Office Manager, Ray’s Common Law Wife
(aka keeper of Ray’s secrets) (aka original keeper of Ray’s secrets)
CELL 951-663-2958 / CELL 317-771-6373 909-460-5544 / 760-909-0846 CELL
[email protected] [email protected] / [email protected]
Home - 3674 S 107th East Ave, Tulsa OK 74146 Home - 1715 Onyx Lane, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
Bill Schaffhouser *BE ADVISED – Despite their continued claims
Previous General Manager, R3 Performance Products otherwise, to be clear, R3 IS NOT FORD LICENSED
531 Old Woman Springs Rd., Yucca Valley, CA 92284 in any way, shape, or form. R3 lost their Official
760-364-3001 Work Ford licensing on 9/30/2020. The Ford contacts
760-818-2897 CELL are Kevin Powell at [email protected] and
951-533-0292 CELL David Rudd at [email protected]. BEWARE OF R3!
[email protected] / [email protected]
(Past R3 GM. Contact him for more on R3 and Ray’s criminal history. He is more than happy to fill in the details.)
K2
Calgary,Alberta,
Canada
Drake Customs / similar story
#5Consumer Comment
Sat, September 25, 2010
I am writing to express the same type of story with Drake Customs. After ordering and paying for 2 bodyshells , i get the same drill from Drake, no one is ever around, no calls are ever returned, no commitments on delivery. I plan on taking immediate action to recoup the funds i have sent them.
I would advise you to stay far away from them and the new company they have formed in the "ashes" of Drake Customs - Recon Classic Car Bodies another Ray Carmody business. There is an article in Car Craft this month featuring them and saying they can kick out one of these cars in 6 days? What a load of crap
