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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | I got this today from Dave Layson by email to the WPC Club.
Name : David Layson
Primary Email : dave@laysons.com
Secondary Email : dave@laysons.com
Subject : Other
Enter your message here : Laysons Restorations Exonerated
Charges dropped with prejudice in Pennsylvania
(Lakewood-WA) Laysons Restorations is pleased to announce the end of a patent and trademark investigation in the state of Pennsylvania. This follows the FBIs move to drop its case last fall. It is the end of a lengthy legal battle that began at the Chryslers at Carlisle event in July of 2008.
Laysons can again focus entirely on doing what it does best: Serving our customers and helping them bring their Mopar dreams to life. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to our customers, vendors, business partners and even competitors who encouraged us and provided the moral support to see us through this difficult time.
We want to extend a special thanks to Robert Wolff of Mopar Collectors Guide and Phil Painter both of whom made the effort to see through the issues and into the truth of the matter. We will always be grateful.
Going forward, we hope these developments when combined with a turnaround in the economy will allow us to recall some of the loyal employees we were forced to lay off and continue our quest to make more parts and improve our processes to better serve our customers who, along with our love of classic cars, motivate us to be the best we can be every day.
Now that we can again turn our attention to the hobby we love, look for an improved website, more product releases and our continued support of our loyal customer base at the major Mopar shows around the country.
In the end, we hope that the legal issues surrounding the manufacture and sale of legal reproduction parts have been resolved once and for all for the good of the hobby, and those of us investing and working to restore valuable pieces of American automotive history.
We will have a video statement up on our www.youtube.com/gimeaV8 site in the near future, but until then, were just thankful this chapter in our companys history is over and that our customers will continue to have access to high quality and affordable reproduction parts for their restoration projects.
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Location: New Philadelphia, Ohio | What exactly happened? Did they get busted for reproducing parts without Chryslers Corps permission or something?
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Location: Parts Unknown | Memory is a little fuzzy, but the answer is yes. I recall discussion about repro detail down to the logo and part number, but can't recall if that was the issue, or just the parts ???
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | The owners were actually arrested by what looked like a swat team that pounced on them at Chryslers at Carlisle. Here's their video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY4Uf7ytaRo |
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Location: Colorado | That's wild, does anyone know who the competitor was that teamed up with Chrysler? Or can we not ask that? |
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Laysons Restorations exonerated.
