There's always that honest guy who trusts a shop implicitly and gets strung along while they dick him around for many months and drain his bank account. Hope that everything worked out but it doesn't seem to be the case. I don't know specifics or the individuals involved but this doesn't look good and smacks eerily similar to the dozens of bad situations we all read about on all the gear-head forums (Hennessey etc...).
MPH should be ashamed of themselves for not getting this car out of their shop a LONG time ago. Either someone at their shop has taken a fancy to this car and doesn't want it to leave or they just like ripping this guy off...
What's going on with Austin's car?
Does anyone know how to get in touch with Tim or Austin?
Unfortunately, it appears a catastrophic failure has occurred. That's too bad.