Friends spend 4 years working on a project car together until one decides to sell it to fund a trip to Bali, gets hit with receipts, a 50/50 agreement, and a bill for labor hours: ‘Give me my fair share’

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  • Update: My best friend is selling the project car we built together to take his girlfriend to Bali. The trap is sprung
  • First of all, I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who commented on my last post, and to the people who flooded my chat requests. I've been reading through the
  • messages silently— including some actual legal perspectives, but my inbox is a bit overwhelmed right now so I couldn't reply to everyone individually. I felt completely broken
  • yesterday, but seeing so many people in my corner giving solid advice gave me the backbone to actually do something about this.
  • A few of you suggested that I shouldn't confront him aggressively, but instead text him calmly to try and get him to admit to our 50/50 agreement in writing so I'd have evidence for small claims court.
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  • Well... it worked. Better than I could have imagined.
  • Last night, I sent him a text. I kept my emotions completely out of it and wrote:
  • "Hey man, I'm trying to stay calm here. I know the registration is in your name, but we spent 8 months building this together and explicitly agreed to split the profit
  • 50/50. Dropping $500 on me after I built the engine and funded the turbo setup is completely unfair."
  • He took the bait immediately. He called me twice, but I let it go to voicemail because I wanted everything in text. When he realized I wasn't answering, he texted back:
  • "Bro, plans change. I need the cash for the Bali trip with Jess. Yeah, we said 50/50 at the start, but legally it's my car. Be happy I'm even giving you $500, you don't have a
  • contract anyway so you can't do anything." He literally admitted to the agreement while trying to flex that I couldn't stop him.
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  • Once I had that screenshot saved and backed up, I sent my final reply:
  • "I have the receipts for every single aftermarket part, bank statements proving I bought them, and now I have your text admitting we agreed to split the profit 50/50. I am drafting an itemized bill
  • for my labor hours at a standard shop rate. If you don't freeze the sale and give me my fair share, I am filing a summons for small claims court first thing on Monday. See you there."
  • He hasn't replied since, but his girlfriend just blocked me on Instagram, so I know he's absolutely panicking right now.
  • I'm currently organizing. all my receipts and printing out the text thread. I will keep you guys posted on whether he folds or if we are actually going to court, but for now, the trap is sprung!
  • _SALAD _- Great to see this update. It'd be heartbreaking enough to see all the hard work just disappear without enjoying the car first, then to throw in that he'd rather toss a friend
  • away for a vacation. That sks man, good luck with this process and fingers crossed it gets sorted soon! I guess at the least you figured out what kind of person he is sooner

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