Some of the points above are clearly well made and I do not wish to labour the point on Steves build thread but I feel it necessary to reply to the above for the last time on this thread. I have apologised to Steve on behalf of all of us and wish him all the best with his build and hopefully this will now be unhindered on this forum
I agree that the place for this is elsewhere but hundreds have seen Melia’s damaging allegations of theft on this very thread and so this slander cannot go unanswered.
This very unpleasant situation was started by Melia slandering us, without any reference to us, from his sight of a photo following a post by his associate Fran Hall.
Melia is writing nonsense and distorting time and reality regarding the Goodwood project.
The period of collaboration (ie his wanting to sell us MkII rear clips) to which he refers was in 2003 and due to his changing pricing and specification we decided to make our own clip to our specifications at that time. The first MkII we sold was over two years after ceasing collaboration with Melia, he knows this full well.
Melia insinuates there are many lining up in litigation against us. Nonsense. Melia has sought to deride MDA and to alarm, encourage and goad dissatisfaction with our customers and potential customers at every opportunity particularly since the Goodwood project and is again presently grooming one of our customers. Nothing to do with his own manufacturing supply ambitions?
I do not seek to inflame the issue any but Melia appears intent on blackening our name at every opportunity, remember about throwing stones in glasshouses Chris.
Melia asks “Why did we buy the car back from JP?” We immediately took responsibility for issues, not all of which were our responsibility, and in goodwill refunded our customer’s money immediately.
Now can I ask Melia a question? What interest will you now have in the supply of Roaring Forties RF GT40 parts or cars since your close management involvement with Robert Logan, advising him to move his production to South Africa, introductions, then advising him during the setup and advising throughout his manufacturing time in South Africa?
Despite not even asking to see the clip in question he tries to bully us into paying him for something which we created alone and for which he is not entitled merely because he’d done the same thing and from sight of a photo taken 30 feet away fires off an impressive invoice and accusations of theft on a public forum viewed by hundreds of people, our customers and possible potential customers. A very serious matter. And if this happened to any of you, would you remain silent and allow such serious accusations to continue unanswered?
We look keenly forward to rebuffing his ridiculous allegations over this rear clip in Court with proof and the truth.
Mark MDA
