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Old 12-09-2009, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by cgomez
We all are OK. Our cars belong to us and not FL.


IMO you are over-confident. Just be very sure that you have either a title or other ironclad documents proving ownership, especially for race cars. Also expect to possibly have your cars in impound for a long, long time until many of the legal and criminal issues are resolved.






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Old 12-09-2009, 12:51 AM
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For those concerned about King Leh, don't be. He's good in all this. Can't say more than that right now.


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Old 12-09-2009, 07:49 AM
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It's amazing how much effort it takes to get to being on top of the world, then it is soooo easy to make that step to slide right off! Yikes!
Old 12-09-2009, 08:07 AM
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^^^^^^

LoL, never noticed that screen name. classic.
Old 12-09-2009, 09:27 AM
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This SUCKS. What a bummer for the community.
Old 12-09-2009, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Cory M
Just to keep the facts straight: FL won the GrandAM championship this year, not the ALMS championship.
Yeah, I know. Sorry for the confusion. I just meant to point out that ALMS is in alot of danger.
Old 12-09-2009, 10:58 AM
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I wonder if this has anything to do with Bryce Miller starting his own team last season.
Old 12-09-2009, 12:06 PM
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Innocent until proven guilty, even in obamaland. None of us know all the facts in the case, lets not get the hangin' tree ready just yet.
Old 12-09-2009, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TT Surgeon
Innocent until proven guilty, even in obamaland.
In the eyes of the law...but we're free to come to our own conclusions and act accordingly. And we should, out of nothing more than common sense.

If you were a F-L customer, are you saying that you would you continue "business as usual" until he's proven guilty or innocent?
Old 12-09-2009, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by djb_rh
For those concerned about King Leh, don't be. He's good in all this. Can't say more than that right now.


--Donnie
Donnie,

Long time no hear. Are you running OLOA in 2010. I did see Leh @ the UTCC with Doug. Same old Doug car 1 lap and it broke.

Peter
Old 12-09-2009, 01:05 PM
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Guys, please... keep some things straight.

Farnbacher Loles is NOT the same as Flying Lizard. Flying Lizard won the ALMS championship in 2009. They share NOTHING here.

Farnbacher Loles won the 2009 Grand Am GT championship, with Keen and Werner.

The proposed facility at NJMP is TRG (The Racers Group, Kevin Buckler). Again, NOT Farnbacher. As a side note, I doubt you'll see anything but the sign and dirt there for a few years.

The people that will get screwed here are Farnbacher Loles employees as well as customers with deposit money down. If you own a car and Farnbacher serviced it, you still own it. There have been a number of east coast shops seeing roll backs show up and drop off such cars.

Just another reminder that racing is full of people that shouldn't be trusted by the glitz of their rigs and ability to bank roll alone.

I wonder what Horst Farnbacher thinks of all this?
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Originally Posted by TT Surgeon
Innocent until proven guilty, even in Cheneyworld.
Fixed it for you.
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Originally Posted by 85Gold
Long time no hear. Are you running OLOA in 2010. I did see Leh @ the UTCC with Doug. Same old Doug car 1 lap and it broke.
Unknown on the OLOA front right now. If I do it might be in a semi-prepped NSX (another small bore contender, not overall). Hard to say. Leh wants to run it in something that can win overall, so I may have to find another codriver for this one.


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Originally Posted by djb_rh
Unknown on the OLOA front right now. If I do it might be in a semi-prepped NSX (another small bore contender, not overall). Hard to say. Leh wants to run it in something that can win overall, so I may have to find another codriver for this one.


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So I guess he isn't driving Doug's car.

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Originally Posted by Mahler9th
I wonder if this white collar stuff is worse than all of the reefer and cocaine back in the IMSA salad days..
speaking of those days, this sounds like it might be J David part II


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