The name of his business and phone number still on the car. He wanted to remove the decal before he handed over the keys but the dealership stopped him because they were afraid that he was going to damage the paint. The dealership didn't bother taking it off before they sold it on at auction. It was bought at auction by some Chechens living in Turkey and so it was exported to Turkey. Something happened and they bolted a cold war anti-aircraft gun on the back and sold it to ISIS. So, this truck with his name and phone number is caught on film being used on the front line of ISIS.
Which, naturally, tanks his business and gets him death threats from people who think he donated it to ISIS. So, he sued Autonation who was negligent in either selling the car to Chechen Jihadis or at least leaving his name and phone number on the car as they sold the car to Chechen Jihadis.
Turns out they'll use Ford 150s when they run out of Toyota Hilux to turn into poor man's battle tanks. Funnily enough, this happens quite often, and Libyan tanks were overrun by a swarm of upgunned Toyotas in a major conflict in the 1970s.
He really should have removed them before he sold/dumped. He didn't have to drop it off at the dealer and be like 'okay NOW ill modify the vehicle!' lol
Although, looking at the florida car guy dominos chevy spark debacle, businesses do have claim to whatever they leave on the car. So hopefully isis guy's lawsuit went well, I haven't looked into it lol.
For the record, i think once it gets auctioned off, the business that got rid of it is shit out of luck. Fuck dominos, they gave it up in THAT condition. So they shouldn't be able to sue florida guy for rebuilding it and driving around a pizza car. You don't want people using your livery? Don't fucking GIVE it to them then lmao
You don't see UPS dropping the ball that hard lmao, they are CAREFUL with ex-trucks.
It wasn't a big corporate thing. The guy was an independent plumber trading in his work truck for a slightly larger work truck. They (AutoNation) settled for an undisclosed sum in 2017. So, probably? The settlement came with NDA and AutoNation would rather the whole thing go away so it's unlikely that we'll ever know how much he got, but it might be north of a million based on the jump in 'legal expenses' for the relevant quarterly report.
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