[John McMahon]

Let me chime in for many of the respondents here.....

Bill got involved in selling this car at my behest. I had been at Connelly's shop to have him finish off my 289FIA last June (2005). As I dropped my Cobra off, Bill C. asked me to find him a buyer, I called Bill S. and took the Mustang racer to him in my trailer. Bill S. worked out the details with Bill C while I was in transport about his fee and started to set up the website to sell the car. He quickly found a buyer within a few weeks.


(not to detract from Bill’s issues here, but here is some more background, this is the first I am speaking of this on CC)...

I had no time to finish my Cobra, so I took it to Connelly since he is a former Contemporary dealer and has Wayne from Contemporary working in his shop. Who better to work on a Contemporary than him!

I had Connelly work on my Cobra with a $1500 stop gap, I had no more money to spend than that, he agreed to work on it at his normal $40/hour rate and let me know when the money ran out.

I have emails confirming he knew what my stop point was and we also discussed by phone. I went so far as too tape a list of prioritized work items to complete on the car in the order of critical need (i.e - do these until the money runs out and do not proceed until we discuss) on the windshield and in big bold letters…I’d like to set a spending cap of $1500 and see what can be completed for that amount.

He never did notify me and when he finished, told me I owed him an ADDITIONAL $4800!!!! This was money that I did not have to spend in the first place, but I had to pay him the money to get my car back.

I considered Bill Connelly a friend, I had known him and raced with him for years and he screwed me….screwed me good. My wedding fund took a big hit in order to pay him off. Not sure if he still has his business up and running, but I do know he is active on the Corvette Forums after buying himself a C6 Z06. I can only guess where some of that money came from.

So, let it be known that this is not the first time this has happened. I am sorry I doubted Tom Wells when he brought up the issue he had with the uprights he bought from Connelly last year.

Friendships end all the time, but you don’t screw a friend in the process. I am sorry that Bill S. got caught in the middle of this.