Streetbeasts suing online Wiki poster

I found this thread on another site that is dedicated to CMC/FF owners.
I wonder what Curt Scott would have to say about this!

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I don't know if anyone else caught this a few months ago, but
Streetbeasts is suing someone for posting their history and connection
to Classic Motor Carriages:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/streetbeasts-attacks-our-free-speech-
frivolous-lawsuit-against-me-147173.html

If there is any doubt between the connection of Street Beasts to
Fiberfab/CMC, just look at this archive page from Street Beasts own
website (circa 1999):
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128081132/www.streetbeasts.com/frame.htm

I just thought some of you might find this interesting.

Chris G.
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http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/wiki/Streetbeasts_fraud_controversy

I didn't see anything about CMC on the Street Beast archive link.

I always kinda like the Street Beasts "Vicky." It had a funky, but really kind of fun look to it. I had a buddy who shared garage space with a guy who was building a white Street Beasts "34" coupe. The guy was ALWAYS in a pissed off mood, now I know why . . .

WOW, Curt Scott is my hero. I was being "solicited" by CMC at the time, and I ran across his newsletters filleting their business practices. IMHO he is a genuine unsung hero of the kit car industry and deserves more recogintion. Car and Driver published my letter about his efforts and I later met him at one of the Knott's shows. Great guy.

This has been around for a while now. Street Beasts has filed a lawsuit against the administrator of Hotrodders.com for "implying" a connection between Street Beasts and the former CMC. They are denying any connection, and those people who post on various forums of a connection between the two are finding themselves to be the target of lawsuits to get them to shut up. SB representatives also have been posting on some forums to counter the negative posts of SB buyers and those who have received their kits and are trying to build them.

This is serious stuff. We've only seen a very few SB Speedster kits in process, so don't see a lot of chatter on them, but there are a lot more other SB kits out there which are keeping other forums pretty busy.

Follow those links above to see much more.

Street Beasts looks like a company taking steady aim at their foot. That's not the way to get new cutomers. If they took the money they are spending on the lawyers and put it into product development, they'd be miles ahead.All they're doing now is scaring off potential clients.

I just visited their web site.
http://www.streetbeasts.com/

All of their cars are kind of cartoonish, just "off" in every way, like full size carnival ride cars, probably why I like their "Vicky."

It's too bad that they're who they are and how they are, because that Cobra Coupe really has some potential, lots wrong, but way more right about it.

Sure looks like a number of their customers seem to be less than pleased with what they get and ends up on eBay.

As a reader of many automotive periodicals each month, You have to admit that SB does a great job of advertising. They have very good ads. And since most (all?) kit cars are about selling "fantasys and dreams" they get a lot of customers this way. I bet a lot of you were in that same mode before you were educated by this forum - I'll admit I was. I got past it. The only cure is due diligence, or caveat emptor.

Yeah, that kinda goes for ANY supplier these days.

There are a lot of good ones out there, and an equal, if not larger, amount of bad (and REALLY bad) ones, too.

The only defense we have is surfing the forums and web sites for the truth, because the kit and custom magazines seem to be owned by their advertisers and don't publish anything bad or incriminating about their sources of income. When was the last time that you read ANYTHING bad about a supplier in Kit Car or Kit Car Builder?? Or even Custom Car or Street Rodder or any of the other rags??

Curt Scott published the truth and all of his advertisers left him high and dry. I guess it shows that you can't bite the hand that feeds you...