Skylark72

I hate to do this and although doing so will probably not help me at all I hope it will help anyone else that may deal with Chuck Flynn from Panama City, Florida. He sells and deals with trailers and racecars often on racingjunk under CFLYNN529. This July after being notified I would be laid off I decided to sell my prostock S10. Chuck contacted me and we eventually agreed on a deal that included him trading me a Mullis 4-Link dragster, some cash, and engine parts. The engine parts included an unassembled 572 short block. Chuck assured me ALL parts were either brand new or in excellent ready to be used shape. The pistons, connecting rods, and rings were all new and there were no issues with those. However, I took the block to be finished bored and found that the block was cracked in two cylinders: #5 and #6. To make matters worse the crower crankshaft was already turned .020 on the rods and .020 on the mains and was filled with stress cracks. It also had 2 major cracks on the #4 rod journal from the oiling holes to the chamfered edge of the crankshaft. These cracks are so bad that they are clearly visible with the naked eye. The crankshaft is also blue on the outer edge of that journal. I contacted Chuck by phone immediately and he apologized and claimed he wasn’t aware of the cracks in the block or the crank. He assured me he would make good financially for these shit parts or would replace them with new parts. At this point I was confident he would make good and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Two weeks passed and I did not hear back from him. I contacted him again and he claimed he would get back to me later that day, once again reassuring me he would make good. During this conversation he explained to me how great my truck was running and the number of round wins he and his son accomplished the first time out with it! A few more weeks passed and he failed to call me back, meanwhile he is racing and I have been sidelined all summer by his dishonesty. Approx. 3 weeks ago I was contacted by a local racer that knew my truck quite well that saw it advertised on racingjunk by Chuck Flynn. This was a prospective buyer that called to ask me questions about the truck since I had owned it for six years. I was tempted to bash Chuck to this gentleman, but figured I would take the high road and just answer the questions he had about the truck. In fact, I even encouraged him to buy it without mentioning how Chuck SCREWED me. Later that day I saw the ad of racingjunk and sent Chuck a message reminding him about how he assured me he would make good on the parts. He failed to respond to it. As it turns out, this gentleman bought the truck from Chuck and contacted me yesterday to let me know and to ask a few more questions about it. He paid $32,000.00 or more for it. I decided to call Chuck again yesterday and surprisingly he answered. I reminded him of his bullshit promises and really explained how badly he screwed me and set me back. I also shared with him how influential I may have been on the sale of the truck and that up until this point haven’t bashed him on yellowbullet or racingjunk. He claimed that he didn’t know the parts were screwed up yadda yadda. He said he would call me at 6 and that we will figure something out. He never called so I texted him multiple pictures of the cracked shit parts as well as other messages offering him ways to end this. In the end, I had to buy a whole new motor and didn’t do much racing at all this year. This may seem like a drop in the bucket too most people, but I am self-financed, have a family, and race when I can afford it. I have his phone number and other contact info and thought about taking this even further, but at the minimum I hope I can’t prevent others from being phucked!