I Got A Scorpion

[LagunaH1]

Now, about the color.......

 

[3Hummers]

#2 was ordered by Dallas oilman Lee Fikes after seeing the MK1 at the 1999 SEMA show. For those of you that follow Barrett-Jackson, Mecum, etc car auctions Lee buys and sells a lot of high interest vehicles. Seems he is the car guy we all want to be. After talking with the guy that takes care of his large collection I think I could spend days drooling over his accumulation of cool vehicles.

 

[3Hummers]

Now, about the color.......

Yellow would not have been my first choice but at least I won't lose it on the trail. The Scorpion was slightly used on a ranch in north Texas. Apparently the red soil there has a high iron oxide content. Underneath where the red dirt was allowed to stay for long periods the iron oxide has stained the paint a slight reddish color. Damn Oklahoma dirt used to do that to my socks too.

 

[LagunaH1]

Well I guess you also COULD coat it in some Moab dust..... I know my 97 has a good, solid, protective coating of that stuff underneath. It's permanent

 

[06 H3]

Congrats Dave! Is it at Dwaine's shop or at your place?

 

[3Hummers]

My place in Texas.

 

[mudbug]

Congrats on the scorpion. Looks awesome :thumbs:

 

[3Hummers]

Thanks. I think it will be a blast.

 

[Expendable]

Sonni didn't sell the rights. He ripped off a ton of people and the rights were seized in a legal suit.


"Ex Umbris Venimus"

oh, didn't know that. all the articles/threads i have seen online say he sold it.

 

[ReconH3]

I'm one of the five that took him to court so your not going to get more first hand info. If he sold it that too is fraud because Sonni no longer owned the rights. He fled Arkansas to escape the court order and was in "hiding" in New Mexico for any years. I handed over my 1/5 part to the original chassis/trailer designer that was Sonni's original partner in the beginning. He's the guy the started the suit and pulled us other victims into the case against.



"Ex Umbris Venimus"

 

[3Hummers]

Al, you say Soni no longer owned the rights so he couldn't sell them. How did he lose or give up the rights he once held? This doesn't effect me but I am curious as to the history.
also in my business we deal with intellectual property rights frequently. As a builder/developer I create ideas and concepts but am not an engineer or architect. Someone else has to " do the math" so to speak. The design consultants always try to claim the work as their own but our contracts with them read that we own the rights to the plans. We are the creator of the idea. They are hired to put it in permit able and build able form. ( I never could draw more than stick figures )
I am just curious how this all came together and fell apart. What I find online is all about Soni and Heath.

 

[Fish]

So I'm confused, did both Dave and Luis just get a scorpion?

 

[3Hummers]

Dave did, I am confused about whether Luis did also or not.

 

[Fish]

Based on his first post and the pics it sure sounds like he did, unless I'm majorly missing some sort of inside joke. Either way congrats and it gives me one more reason to hate you :giggle:

:cheers:

 

[3Hummers]

Luis is a lawyer, can't trust anything he says.

 

[Bigunit]

I will be posting pics of my Scorpion soon. Just haven't had time to take them yet because I wanted to find some big poser rocks.

 

[3Hummers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...pics or it didn't happen.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Luis is a lawyer, can't trust anything he says.

I am too, so that means that when we're talking about anything it all cancels out and we're both telling the truth

 

[Bigunit]

...SBG, we are brothers from different mothers.

 

[3Hummers]

Sounds like lawyer logic.

 

[3Hummers]

Luis my pics were posing on the trailer, I want to see pics of your new baby Scorpion, poser rocks or not.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Sounds like lawyer logic.

it is and we're billing you for it in 1/10th of an hour increments

 

[3Hummers]

Dammit. I get enough of that 1/10 an hour stuff in the real world, not here too. Actually I like my lawyers, it is all the others I don't like.

 

[Gunner_45]

I still say it was the crabs Luisa got instead of a scorpion. He just put some of that lawyer spin on it.

 

[Woodtick]

Doesn't look like a Scorpion,but what do I know.