New England Classics Car Company
Reviews and Complaints

If Marc doesn’t not pay you reach out to the Connecticut DMV Consumer affairs. There are complaint forms on line.

They were extremely helpful in getting my money back from this guy.

I use to work there, we got blamed for everything and took so much verbal abuse.

Hello — I had a big problem with this guy. Contact the State of Connecticut Consumer Protection at the DMV. They were extremely helpful in getting my money back

Accidentally listed neutral. In reality...disagree-

First of all, IF one reads this complaint, there is a lot more than meets the eye.

This fify year old unrestored car was sold 'as is' and then we were contracted to provide additional work including, but not limited to, paint, some modification (including installation of 'racing style' Weber carbs, to reinstall the interior, and upgrade the car with the installation and connection of an overdrive 4 speed transmission.

Now, to respond to individual parts of this complaint.

First of all, it is a NEAR 50 year old car. IF a working generator or starter fails a second after the car departs out company, it is absurd to complain. And, once sold, IF the part failed during the time it was here, we would have been MORE than happy to replace the part...and why not, the new owner would have been responsible for payment.

Second, l there is no such thing as a 60 day temp tag in Ct. Doesn't exist. There is a 30 day temp available, never promised, offered, or even suggested by us. And it would require the new owner to get insurance and register the car at a Connecticut DVD office. This aspect of the complaint is pure nonsense.

Third, this stuff about the carbs not being properly set for his altitude. Yes, we were asked to do this and we DID by the only method available...when the carbs were ordered from the supplier in California, we specifically gave their technical department the use and altitude as specified by the new owner and they assured us that the carbs were properly set for that use. To think we are going to take this car to (say) Vermont to attempt to duplicate the owner's altitude...is nonsense.

Fourth, other than paint, the biggest single change we performed was the acquisition, installation, and connection of an expensive overdrive transmission. We acquired this unit from Quantum Mechanics in Oxford Ct who is a known specialist in this area. The unit was supplied, promptly installed, and we were given detailed instructions for the rather complicated wiring. For several months, we tried our best yet were unsuccessful in getting the unit (guaranteed by the supplier) to work. FINALLY, after calling, pleading, and requests, John came to our shop and discovered his instructions were incorrect. And spent part of a day working with our mechanics to get the unit to work. Hence, a furtherance of delays generally expected and accepted by anyone who is having restoration work done on a near fifty year old car. Truth is some shops would have simply said 'screw it' and shipped the car with a non working overdrive. But we were determined to get it right...and we did.

Fifth: lawyer/legal. Yes, the new owner did contract a local lawyer to investigate the progress of the car. Local attorney Richard P Giarniero. who, in accordance with is client's request, asked for a detailed accounting of the work done and also stated he was going to provide an independent expect to examine the car. BOTH OF WHICH WERE DONE. In fact, in a letter to us dated June 20th, he further stated that he had the balance of the payment held in escrow and the funds would be released to us upon SATISFACTORY examination of the car. Which was examined and were paid.

Sixth: as the car was sold as a complete entity, was distinctly 'unrestored, ' any comments about purported 'old tires' is, again, absolute nonsense. IF the owner has asked 'how are the tires and would you replace them?' it would have been a point of discussion with the new owner responsible for payment of new tires. But as far back as I can vaguely recall, they were black, they were round, and they held air. Which is about as much as one could ask for tires on a 50 year old urnestroed car. Whether the replacement was done here or at the new owner's place, BE AWARE that if they were replaced here, we would have had an opportunity to make a profit on them. Again, this aspect of the complaint is sheer nonsense.

Seventh...the unpainted wire wheel. Aw shucks, I think he got us on this one. As I am sure one $6 can of paint can paint at least 10 wire wheels (we use Krylon 1403), I will concede the 80 cent point. This is clearly not nonsense. Just picky picky.

Read his complaints, read my response, remember we are talking about a 50 year old UNRESTORED car sold along with specific work. "Duped" he writes? Now, lets see...he got the car and title, he has no complaint (yet) about the expensive paintwork, no complaint about the secondary (cost wise) overdrive transmission. No complaint about the (third most expensive) Weber carb installation OTHER than the running issue which is clearly not within our capacity to properly test and set up. And...what else? Did he get a rusted piece of junk? Duped? After the car been examined by a local expert and cleared to allow us to be paid? Duped?

I don't mean to be political but it seems analogous to a candidate for president saying 'things have never been worse.' And one looks around and sees the stock market at over 18, 000, gas for $2.20 a gallon, foreign wars winding down, unemployment down, inflation stable, super low interest rates...the WORST it has ever been? Truth is, the new owner of this car is complaining about things that are either in his imagination or inconsistent with reality. Imagine, we didn't get his car fitted with '60 day tags' because the tires were old? Unaware, of course, that Ct has not had auto inspection for a decade or two and even if the tires were bald and had bubbles breaking through the side walls, it would not impact one's ability to register the car.

The fifty year old car.

The fifty year old UNRESTORED car sold 'as is' and with additional work performed. With no sense that there is any real complaints about the work we did. Just worn this, old that, and failed those. Now, IF he had been charged for a new generator, a new starter, new tires and didn't get them, 'duped' might have validity. But it didn't and doesn't/. Looked in the Moss catalog (the largest supplier of these parts) and a rebuilt starter and generator combined list for $300, While a rebuilt overdrive transmission is on the far side of $3, 500. does any of this make sense? He had no complaint about a provided $3, 500+ transmission but complains about second hand (on the car he purchased) generator and starter motor failing.

Nonsense.

He bought the car, had work done, had it examined, and is now complaining. What else could I possibly add in response?

Marc

PS Glad to provide a copy of the lawyer's letter is requested.

Should of went back …he would oh just hit the panic button under his desk and the cops would of came to laugh

Marc Evans is a short, slimey, greasy, used ###. If you buy a decent car from him, it's only because of luck. Evans is a crook, and the overwhelming majority of the cars at the New England Classic Car Company are crap. Evans makes a living selling clapped out English pieces of ### to suckers, repurchasing them at half the price he charged for them when they die in the new owner's hands, and selling them again. He sold me a car that was dangerous. So rusted that it was unsafe; needed an entirely new drive train, screwed up jerryrigged brakes. Don't do business with this company. Do your homework and read about all the people Evans has ripped off.

Has anyone sued tis ###
Or made sure he never races again ?

Of course. All I got was a song and dance about vintage cars not being perfect.
This car was described as not having "a trace of body putty" and as "rust free" (see rust photos above and below)
"near perfect" "the nicest MG we've seen in a long time" etc.
"I went over all of the edges of the body with my kitchen magnet, couldn't find a trace of plastic filler."
This claim is true if you don't count the RR fender, left rocker panel and LF fender. Full of bondo.
The clutch slave cylinder had to be replaced immediately ("clutch works perfectly") as well as leaky rear shocks.
And here's the kicker: I offered to have him pick up this MG, keep my trade-in FOR FREE ('67 Morris Minor
Traveller wagon) if he would just refund the difference I paid. He never even acknowledged that offer.
He claims the post office lost the title I mailed him so he's been busy making an issue out of that.

I sure wish I'd seen this first. I am yet another victim.
Photo of my "rust free" "meticulously restored" MGB

I recently bought a 64 sprite MK2 from New England Classics, sight unseen over the internet. I agree with the comments here. Mark Evans is a crook. The condition of the car was obscenely, shamelessly exaggerated. Not really exaggerated--lied about. Pictures were cleverly taken to hide the numerous flaws to go along with the totally dishonest description. I would strongly recommend that no one even consider buying a car from these guys unless you examine it carefully yourself, and if you are not an expert, take one. Hire one if you have to. actually, I still wouldn't buy from them. They are just too crooked.

Dealing with Marc right now. If he fulfills his (somewhat vague) agreement on an MG I intend to buy a Spitfire from him. He really should tell prospective buyers up front that delivery of cars as promised may take several weeks. If you want his full attention, you'll need to purchase his most expensive car. His priorities seem to be governed by dollar signs. Nothing illegal here, just an example of what is most wrong with American capitalism. If you're fortunate enough to catch him on a slow day and he already has your money, (caveat emptor) you'll come to believe that he actually cares about his customers. If someone comes along displaying interest in one of his precious Morgans, you may find yourself out in the cold. Stay tuned for further updates.

I've had the misfortune to do a transaction - one transaction - with Troll Evans. His cars were rusty pieces of ###. I unfortunately wound up with one. I had to spend a fortune getting the car to the point that I could sell it. Redid his Maaco paint job. Replaced his Mechanic's hack job work on the electrics. Found the sawdust shavings in the gearbox - nice touch, Marc! One rocker panel was duct tape with bondo and paint over it. The horn was inoperative because the bolt somewhat attached to the end of the steering column (because the tapped part of the column had broken off) took up the horn's space in the steering wheel hub. Had to replace the entire damn steering column to get a working horn! (I have to admit, that was one might clever bodge, staggering in the safety risk it created).

I should have known. I had a strong urge to walk out of his shop when I first saw the man. He looked like a troll and he smelled bad, like a putrid combination of stale cigaret smoke, bad whiskey, body odor, and commercial building sanitation products. I guess I felt sorry for the guy. I couldn't listen to him amphetamine amped "I love me" speech. I couldn't see how the man could earn a living, he seemed so f***** up..

They guy's a troll, he's a troll, he couldn't get laid with an American Express card stapled to his forehead (apparently he tried; check out his story about the chick for whom he built an MGB racecar for; probably built it for her with his own money and STILL didn't get laid), a loser, who manages to rip off people like me. I'll give him that - he ripped me off good. He's a good con man.

But I ask you to consider the totality of Troll Evan's existence. You can see it from his photos. He's a short, fat guy who looks like Chester the Molester, who stuffs his fat ### like a sausage into a racing suit and goes racing somewhere in Canada, and looks like the man who most needed a blowjob in all of history and who was least likely to get a blowjob in all of history. My wife, still a looker, and her friends all laughed their ### off looking at his photos. None of them would have ever touched Troll Evans because, in the words of one of my wife's friends, "He's in a sleaze job and he looks like a sleaze used car salesman."

So buck up, I say. Perhaps Troll Evans did clip us for a few thousand. But as that beautiful blonde, be she your wife or your secretary that can't type, sucks your swollen cockhead expert, remember that Troll Evans never had a woman not a hooker do that to him, and never will. And laugh because all is right in the world. It is fair in the end.

I was at NECC very recently. First, let me say I have a long experience of owning and maintaining old sports cars and was expecting a shop selling first class examples of British sports cars. The asking prices are certainly first class. As I arrived, he was pleasant and took time to discuss his likes and dislikes of some specific models and recommended that I look at MGBs, of which he had a few nice examples. He then tried to steer me into a specific car. In spite of his glorifying remarks about the car I could see a number of obvious shortcomings, and I could find an equivalent MGB locally for maybe one fourth of his asking price. For half, I could get a really nice one.
When I started talking about a test drive he cut the discussion short and just vanished. Not that I was serious about it, and he probably had figured I was not his typical customer.
After this visit none of the posts on this thread was a surprise. This guy built himself an image through the specialized medias and uses it to sell way overpriced cars to unsuspecting customers, either from far away or unknowledgeable people who walk in the place.

Wow, what a mixed bag of comments. The prior employee seems so level-headed, but the hatred hurled at Marc is something that just can't be ignored of be the work of all crackpots. I spoke w/ him this AM and was going to make plans to chk out an English classic w/ time and expense, but now I'm given pause. Yes, he is a bit overbearing on the phone, pushed me towards his fav car--(perhaps the one I inquired about was not there?) but now, hmmmm. Now I know what his former employee is talking about--Classic cars are not for the light of heart. I was looking at a car in Fla, when another guy flew in just to chck a Jag XK-150 DHC, and this 100K car broke down on the friggen test drive! And believe me it was a beautiful sorted example. So, expectations should be tempered.
But one weird thing--did anyone else get a e-mail from when Marc was in Europe, that he had been robbed and was asking for money? Was that an internet scam or was he really asking complete strangers who happened to be on his contact list for money so he could get home? That gives me pause as well. Moral of story: Never buy a car sight-unseen, w/o a thorough PPI by an objective specialty shop, w/ compression or leak down numbers and if the owner won't let you, as it seems Marc discourages, fogettaboutit!
Buy a Miata or Move on!

mean, rude, dishonest

I recently had a very unpleasant experience with NE classics car company. I fully agree with all the negative epithats about this business. Untrustworthy, deceptive,
unreliable. There is not 1% of classic or gentlemanly about the proprietor of this used car business. Just another used car salesman hiding under a thin, cracking veneer of civility. He may as well sell used rugs or vacuums. I have been a classic car collector and have interacted with truly superb people in my time. This is not one of them. Please stay away from this one.
S

Also while all these people complain about the over priced piles of crap this clown sells the bottom line is he has your money!