That's very good advice, Tom! We have two of the classic police cars you saved here in our Detroit workshop. Scammers have already tried to resell parts off of them by stealing our photos from Facebook and throwing them up on Marketplace. Keep fighting the good fight and good luck rescuing more forgotten classics. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
@@rocketresto Fantastic! Glad to have you along for the ride. We love old Mopar cop cars here in the Motor City as so few of them survived our harsh weather and rough roads. We'll do our best to showcase the work it takes to bring them back to their former glory and share them with our fellow fans.
Good stuff. A scammer tried getting me on a 1/18 scale model group, and it was so easy to tell what he was doing to several people all at the same time. Unless, of course, he just happened to have one of everything people there were looking for.
I’ve seen that same Cuda listed in North Carolina. Like you said, always check profiles and look at their other listings!! If they’re Mopar people, I look for mutual friends. Great video and great information!!
Another way to spot scammers using "borrowed" pics is to look at the landscape (if the pics are taken outside) and see if it matches the supposed location of the ad. I recently saw a 70 Super Bee project car listed as being in Vancouver BC but the pics were taken in a driveway of an acreage that looked like somewhere in SE USA going by the trees and landscape. It was a scam and someone local got burned by sending a deposit for it.
It's crazy what happens on FB market place. This is some good info to avoid these scams. Sorry it happened to you. At least it was caught before any real damage was done.
I've always wondered how the people that do this walk around with such massive balls. For what it's worth I'll keep my eye out up here as well just in case. Merry Christmas to you and the family!
Depends on if the car is sorted out or not...I sold my '72 Cuda 340 to a guy and he had it 6 years with no issues. He doesn't drive hard like I do nor as much as I drive my old cars .. I tune his car up once a year, look it over and that's all in 6 years. I put 40,000 miles on my 68 Charger R/T since I rebuilt it, and nothing went wrong except a leaking lower rad hose and rear wheel cyl. a few years after that's just general maintenance, never stranded. You can have old cars that nothing went wrong, it's rare as most people don't know how to put them together these days. I spend 2 weeks driving them daily after to find/fix squeaks, rattles and mechanical issues, worked for me since a teen in the 80' s doing this and I am much better now . I only work/restore my cars no customers but when I sell them if they want me to maintain them, I will.. I don't restore cars that general public comes in. Customers cars, depending on the person I will continue doing maintenance and maybe other repairs. These fake adds are easy to spot, nice cars way too cheap and spelling mistakes and backgrounds with palm trees or mountains or beautiful weather when winter etc..If you search their name if multiple adds of different cars backgrounds you can tell its fake.
Happened to me buying a 67 Dart GT trunk trim panel. I learned this stuff the hard way. Great video. Hopefully it will save someone from getting scammed. There seems to be a lot of these guys out there now.
That fake yard featured at the end of the video is Billy West Racing Garage. An all Mopar salvage yard located in NC. I've been there times and have a video or two on my channel featuring trips there. I recognized it as soon as I seen the picture.
Hey Tom great video and information. Another thing you could do is instead of marking your sold ads sold,just delete them. It won't stop it from happening, but it can't hurt.
I have seen people block plates in legit adds. Also whenever I take photos at car shows, when I edit them, I make the plates unreadable for privacy reasons before posting them. Its still worth looking into though
It’s disgraceful what the world has become. I get a dozen or more scam emails a day from bs email accounts selling whatever or letting you know you won a contest you didn’t answer. I just assume everything is a scam these days.
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍 : I am a 72 year old car guy who work in automotive industries ( new car dealer ) am retired . I am sorry your experience, one thing I learned from Dealer owner who was a gentleman, he toll me early in my career that many individuals were full of garbage, he called every name in the book . He toll me it would be easy to make a low buck car high end ( this was back in the 80’s ) he then toll me treat every car as a used vehicle inspection is key, anyone that that states it is the real deal, do your home work ! Maybe one will be real all other are a scam ! Inspect, inspect, inspect ! If you have doubts walk away ! 🎄🧑🎄🎅🏼 Merry Christmas Tom to you and your family & your crew ! 👀😎👍🥃
The book of faces is quick to ban or restrict a person about something they posted / shared years ago, on something that was originally posted on the book of faces and yet don't do a damn thing about fake profiles or scammers...
Ryan is pretty diligent about putting his watermark on his pictures to keep from being stolen, though it's possible someone took one and photoshopped out his watermark. I've been to mopar city, I don't think that picture is from there, but I'm sure someone will recognize it!
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What I hear you saying is that if I contact you via FB, you won't be responding. I don't blame you after you said what you said; it makes perfect sense. Nonetheless, I've been thinking of starting a FB account for the sole purpose of having access to Marketplace. I will include no photos and I will invite no friends. My account will be hollowed out as thoroughly as that '68 Charger you sold.
This ain't news. Jamie's mentioned in videos that you have a twin. 🤐 Happy Holidays to you & your family! Thanks for all your informative & entertaining videos.
Tom; This is really scary stuff. The sad thing is it is close to impossible to catch those doing it. PS-Nice nose hair! PS/PS- Did you sell Jamie that 1981 car that dare call itself a Challenger? I’ve been riding his ass because he knows how a near-bankrupt Chrysler Corp slapped the revered “Challenger” name on this Mitsubishi in an attempt to make a fast buck but he shamelessly keeps putting up videos because it’s somehow getting subscribers by 40-something that think it’s a cool car. How could any respectable MOPAR lover look themselves in the mirror, with shaved beard, putting videos up of this turd!! From your recent MECCAN trip, I don’t remember you featuring any 1981 “Challengers” on your site…..
Not sure why the hate on the Challenger. It was build almost 50 years ago now. Let it go man. Yes it’s not an original Challenger but the crowd has spoken and the crowd loves it.
@@rocketrestoTom; I saw the live podcast you and Jamie did and I’m sorry I missed it (I had a stomach bug). I must have left some impression as you called me out on the video concerning an upcoming Neon Jamie will be working on (I’ll be chopping at the bit for that one!). I’m glad that you get my sense of humor and I hope your glad that I understand why your defending your friend on a car you know was a gimmick and you know is a shitbox!! As I said in a post to Jamie, if you can make a buck shoveling shit in viewers faces then feed them shit! PS-If the crowed wants to jump off a bridge are you going to jump with them?
A deposit, my ass. I pay when I see the junk. Money order or cash. If you're buying something, I'm selling and writing a check to me. I will go to the bank with you and see that the check is good.
That's very good advice, Tom! We have two of the classic police cars you saved here in our Detroit workshop. Scammers have already tried to resell parts off of them by stealing our photos from Facebook and throwing them up on Marketplace. Keep fighting the good fight and good luck rescuing more forgotten classics. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
So annoying about people selling the parts.
Which cars do you have?
@@rocketresto 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury Montana Highway Patrol #2557, and 1976 Dodge Coronet CHP #3988
@@ChaseClassicMotorsnice looking forward to following the restos. Cop cars is really my passion, have a lot of them.
@@rocketresto Fantastic! Glad to have you along for the ride. We love old Mopar cop cars here in the Motor City as so few of them survived our harsh weather and rough roads. We'll do our best to showcase the work it takes to bring them back to their former glory and share them with our fellow fans.
Good stuff. A scammer tried getting me on a 1/18 scale model group, and it was so easy to tell what he was doing to several people all at the same time. Unless, of course, he just happened to have one of everything people there were looking for.
Good thing you caught it.
I’ve seen that same Cuda listed in North Carolina. Like you said, always check profiles and look at their other listings!! If they’re Mopar people, I look for mutual friends. Great video and great information!!
Another way to spot scammers using "borrowed" pics is to look at the landscape (if the pics are taken outside) and see if it matches the supposed location of the ad. I recently saw a 70 Super Bee project car listed as being in Vancouver BC but the pics were taken in a driveway of an acreage that looked like somewhere in SE USA going by the trees and landscape. It was a scam and someone local got burned by sending a deposit for it.
Totally, missed that one but absolutely something I look for.
It's crazy what happens on FB market place. This is some good info to avoid these scams. Sorry it happened to you. At least it was caught before any real damage was done.
Good thing people stepped up to flag it.
I'm very sorry this happened to you. It is getting common, unfortunately. ALWAYS check the profile history!
Yep
Tom, I am sorry to hear of your misfortune but I thank you for detailing another downside of social media.
I've always wondered how the people that do this walk around with such massive balls. For what it's worth I'll keep my eye out up here as well just in case. Merry Christmas to you and the family!
1st clue : 70 Cuda -"Never had any problems with it" LOL
Depends on if the car is sorted out or not...I sold my '72 Cuda 340 to a guy and he had it 6 years with no issues. He doesn't drive hard like I do nor as much as I drive my old cars .. I tune his car up once a year, look it over and that's all in 6 years.
I put 40,000 miles on my 68 Charger R/T since I rebuilt it, and nothing went wrong except a leaking lower rad hose and rear wheel cyl. a few years after that's just general maintenance, never stranded. You can have old cars that nothing went wrong, it's rare as most people don't know how to put them together these days. I spend 2 weeks driving them daily after to find/fix squeaks, rattles and mechanical issues, worked for me since a teen in the 80' s doing this and I am much better now . I only work/restore my cars no customers but when I sell them if they want me to maintain them, I will.. I don't restore cars that general public comes in. Customers cars, depending on the person I will continue doing maintenance and maybe other repairs.
These fake adds are easy to spot, nice cars way too cheap and spelling mistakes and backgrounds with palm trees or mountains or beautiful weather when winter etc..If you search their name if multiple adds of different cars backgrounds you can tell its fake.
My favorite was “non-smoking, non-pet vehicle”
Hey I want a pet free Cuda.
Happened to me buying a 67 Dart GT trunk trim panel. I learned this stuff the hard way. Great video. Hopefully it will save someone from getting scammed. There seems to be a lot of these guys out there now.
Sorry to hear that.
hope it gets sorted and you don’t lose too much Tom. All the best for the holidays 🍀
That fake yard featured at the end of the video is Billy West Racing Garage. An all Mopar salvage yard located in NC. I've been there times and have a video or two on my channel featuring trips there. I recognized it as soon as I seen the picture.
Thanks for the info.
Great video Tom, I get a kick out of the people that list cars for sale and they claim to be in California but the back round pictures are in Alaska.
Ya look at the background too.
Hey Tom great video and information. Another thing you could do is instead of marking your sold ads sold,just delete them. It won't stop it from happening, but it can't hurt.
It sucks that some people can be this shitty. Thanks for the great information! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Scammers are everywhere. Merry Christmas to you too!
Great information!!!
Thanks for watching.
Kool sound affects. Puppies are the best. Beautiful dog.
I never understood buying a car without looking at it, and im sure glad i won't.
Don’t blame you. I’ve done it but usually had somebody go look at it for me.
Excellent Video. Thank you for sharing. It is recommended to put a watermark on every picture with your number or email.
Should start doing that.
I have seen people block plates in legit adds. Also whenever I take photos at car shows, when I edit them, I make the plates unreadable for privacy reasons before posting them. Its still worth looking into though
None of this is full proof but another thing that raises questions for me. You have to look at the whole picture.
A real seller will meet in person. Scammers won't.
Sometimes the person isn’t close to you but you aren’t wrong.
It’s disgraceful what the world has become. I get a dozen or more scam emails a day from bs email accounts selling whatever or letting you know you won a contest you didn’t answer. I just assume everything is a scam these days.
It's been that way for years
Since I live in the Mountains I can usually tell a scam pretty quick when the pics are outside with no mountains in the back ground.
Totally
happy holidays - for a minute there I was checking to see if my golden retriever playing with her squeaky toy.
Hahaha! Ya took a minute to catch him doing that and had to retake some footage there so it wasn’t super annoying.
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍 : I am a 72 year old car guy who work in automotive industries ( new car dealer ) am retired . I am sorry your experience, one thing I learned from Dealer owner who was a gentleman, he toll me early in my career that many individuals were full of garbage, he called every name in the book . He toll me it would be easy to make a low buck car high end ( this was back in the 80’s ) he then toll me treat every car as a used vehicle inspection is key, anyone that that states it is the real deal, do your home work ! Maybe one will be real all other are a scam ! Inspect, inspect, inspect ! If you have doubts walk away ! 🎄🧑🎄🎅🏼 Merry Christmas Tom to you and your family & your crew ! 👀😎👍🥃
Merry Christmas to you as well! Inspections are so important.
Thank you Tom
Thank you for watching!
In my view the really sad part ? is that fb could easily 'police' this type of crap and put an end to it.... but they won't.
Totally
The book of faces is quick to ban or restrict a person about something they posted / shared years ago, on something that was originally posted on the book of faces and yet don't do a damn thing about fake profiles or scammers...
Facebooks enforcement policy’s are…what’s a good for it?…they don’t really care?
Ryan is pretty diligent about putting his watermark on his pictures to keep from being stolen, though it's possible someone took one and photoshopped out his watermark.
I've been to mopar city, I don't think that picture is from there, but I'm sure someone will recognize it!
It’s a yard in North Carolina.
Sorry to hear. Tough enough to buy/sell legitimately. Thanks for posting. Hope it works out soon.
Hopefully this will help people keep an eye out.
Just like the rest of Facebook, it's all become a pile.
It’s not going in the right direction
With the money that is being asked for these cars , people need these protections. Thak you Rocket Restoration. 😊
Facebook doesn’t really care, just a giant game of wack a mole.
Frank Costanza::"Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!"
Happy Festivus and a Merry Christmas!
Oh I have some grievances!
Quite informative. Thank you!
What I hear you saying is that if I contact you via FB, you won't be responding. I don't blame you after you said what you said; it makes perfect sense. Nonetheless, I've been thinking of starting a FB account for the sole purpose of having access to Marketplace. I will include no photos and I will invite no friends. My account will be hollowed out as thoroughly as that '68 Charger you sold.
Don’t blame you for wanting to stay away from Facebook, it’s toxic, but it’s still the best place to buy and sell right now.
That's why you have to have a certified circle beside your name if they don't have a blue circle beside their name be wary
Sad the world is the way it is.
Scammers are everywhere. People looking to make a cheap buck.
This ain't news. Jamie's mentioned in videos that you have a twin. 🤐 Happy Holidays to you & your family! Thanks for all your informative & entertaining videos.
Ya Jamie did a similar video but this one was a little personal. Have a Merry Christmas!
Ha! My dogs went berserk when they heard that squeaky toy!
Glad I could help :)
The junkyard photo of Ryan’s is Billy Wests place in Selma NC
Thanks, knew I saw it somewhere.
WOW, it sounds like they hacked you.
Awesome dog KEEP THE SQEEK😂
It doesn’t work well on camera 😂
Good information, thank you
Is your retrievers name ‘Hemi’, that is great 🤣
I was expecting a dog named Hemi to have a fatter head.
Yep Hemi, he has a lot of horsepower.
Hemi’s so handsome! My retriever is 7 and almost identical…best dog ever 😊
He can be a bit of a handful at times, just turned 1.
Tom feel for you but Merrychristmas to you and family
Tom;
This is really scary stuff. The sad thing is it is close to impossible to catch those doing it.
PS-Nice nose hair!
PS/PS- Did you sell Jamie that 1981 car that dare call itself a Challenger? I’ve been riding his ass because he knows how a near-bankrupt Chrysler Corp slapped the revered “Challenger” name on this Mitsubishi in an attempt to make a fast buck but he shamelessly keeps putting up videos because it’s somehow getting subscribers by 40-something that think it’s a cool car. How could any respectable MOPAR lover look themselves in the mirror, with shaved beard, putting videos up of this turd!! From your recent MECCAN trip, I don’t remember you featuring any 1981 “Challengers” on your site…..
Not sure why the hate on the Challenger. It was build almost 50 years ago now. Let it go man. Yes it’s not an original Challenger but the crowd has spoken and the crowd loves it.
@@rocketrestoTom;
I saw the live podcast you and Jamie did and I’m sorry I missed it (I had a stomach bug). I must have left some impression as you called me out on the video concerning an upcoming Neon Jamie will be working on (I’ll be chopping at the bit for that one!). I’m glad that you get my sense of humor and I hope your glad that I understand why your defending your friend on a car you know was a gimmick and you know is a shitbox!! As I said in a post to Jamie, if you can make a buck shoveling shit in viewers faces then feed them shit!
PS-If the crowed wants to jump off a bridge are you going to jump with them?
@@Bradydog-in7ut It's all in good fun.
Also a scammer may list a car supposedly in say Pittsburgh and there’s palm trees in the background of the picture lol
Yep, missed that one.
It's a poo pile of a company as well
They don’t do a great job.
Great video! 🦶🏾
Good afternoon,,,,,,Yeee Yeee 😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for that.
Never ever agree to a deposit. If something is supposedly in that much demand hard pass.
Unless it’s a car yes. Sometimes you need to do it for a car but you need to make sure you send it in a way you can get a refund if need be.
Good lookin out Tom
Hoping somebody will watch it and not get scammed.
Nose hairs for the win LOL
I was irritated at the squeak toy noise until I seen it was a dog.
I didn’t even notice while I was filming, left a couple in for the joke but was way more before editing 😂
Loved Hemis squeaky toy . /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
Sorry about ur drama on F.B. .
They love squeaky toys.
I am a admin of a Mopar buy sell group i think the scammer tried to post their ads on the page
Good chance, they try to post everywhere.
Go get them
Where's the Olympia Charger these days...???
It’s still in Europe, it runs the vintage Lemons events.
Lemans not lemons
@@rocketresto I knew that but it's been awhile since they posted anything...
@@4339jkdon’t think he has been very active.
I'll ask for some obscure picture with some object held in the picture. Real sellers get it, scammers argue
Yes I’ve asked for a pic of the seller in front of the thing.
Be wary of new accounts.
Yep
That stinks.
Hopefully somebody will watch this and not be scammed.
A deposit, my ass. I pay when I see the junk. Money order or cash. If you're buying something, I'm selling and writing a check to me. I will go to the bank with you and see that the check is good.
Hey Tom I dig the channel but please clean the bugs from the fluorescent light fixture🪰Greetings from Greenbrook NJ🤣
Need to change out all those lights.
Can I get a judgment call on this video? Was it factory pink?
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It was factory pink
@ Thank you for your expertise 🎉
Who cares about your nose hairs I don't they shouldn't mind their own business
That’s what I’ve been saying!