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Haluska went on to hire Mechanic’s Liens Plus to file a lien on the Brinkleys’ Corvette. After sending a
notice by certified mail (to James Brinkley’s father’s address) that warned the car would be sold at
auction if charges of $7,400 were not paid by a specified date, Haluska in fact bought the car at auction
for $100. He then posted the car on eBay Motors and sold it to a man named Donald Gindelberger for
$25,100. Gindelberger, who did not review county records before the purchase, received a title with
Haluska listed as the owner.
The Brinkleys had won a court injunction ordering Haluska not to transfer title or deliver the signed title
to the vehicle to any third party but it proved to be to no avail. After the sale, they argued that
Gindelberger was not “a bona fide purchaser for value without notice” because he had notice of their
lawsuit against Haluska.
But the Indiana Court of Appeals rejected the Brinkleys’ argument and now has ruled that Gindelberger
was indeed a good faith purchaser for value and will get to keep the car. The court said that Gindelberger
was not required to search pending litigation records prior to purchasing a vehicle.
Edmunds Dynos the 2012 Corvette ZR1 and the 2013 SRT Viper GTS
We already told you that the folks over at
Edmunds.com recently matched a 2012 Corvette ZR1
against the new 2013 SRT Viper GTS in one of their
Burnout Super Tests.
The Corvette dominated that competition, laying
down a record-setting black stripe of more than 514
feet, nearly 100 feet longer than the Viper managed.
Now, Edmunds decided to take the 2013 Viper to the
MD Automotive Dynojet chassis dyno to see what it
could do.
Well, the Viper did put up some impressive numbers,
compared to ordinary cars, but when it went up against the extraordinary ZR1, well, let’s just say the
King is still the King.
On the dyno, the Viper used its massive 8.4-liter pushrod V10 to send its torque rising steadily to a
maximum of 528 lb-ft at 5,100 rpm. It reached its maximum horsepower of 558 just before the abrupt
6,400-rpm fuel cut. We couldn’t find the exact numbers for the Corvette, but from the accompanying
chart, it appears that the ZR1’s horsepower was still climbing to nearly 600 as the rpm’s headed toward
7,000.
But this is one of those cases where the peak numbers
definitely don’t tell the whole story, says Edmunds,
which adds, “Though the Viper enjoys 2.2 liters more
displacement, it just can’t ingest as much air as the
ZR1′s blower heaves through its valves.”
That makes for a big difference in torque through the
midrange between the two supercars. For example, at
3,600 rpm, the ZR1 was producing 85 lb-ft more torque
than the Viper.