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Sounds like they have been tried to be purchased multiple times in the past but GJ always said no. Which I wouldn't blame him since there is a personal connection to them. And they were true works bike from that era.
Seems that they approach his elder mother (and other parts of the family) and made the deal it seems because GJ wouldn't approve the sale. If the said new owner wanted to make it right, before the purchase he should contacted GJ to explain what he wanted to do and make it right for all. GJ is a pioneer of our sport and a 4x motocross champion, something to be said about that. I'm confident most of us will ever reach that type of history in our sport lol.
Sounds like more then bikes were taken also; such as trophies, photos, helmets, etc... I can see why the museum would want them and I bet GJ would want them in there too if the situation was right.
As an aside, no one---no one---hits big in the commodity pits by being honorable and upright.....place is literally a "pit" of snakes.
You can sell anything you own. No questions asked, you can sell what is yours.
He should have purchased them years ago when he was worried that the guy was after these items.... But apparently it wasnt that big of a deal to him.
Wow. This site is really weird sometimes.
Gary’s Mom is in her late 80’s or 90s and when Gary asked her she didn’t even know for how much they were sold for or know where the money was. She doesn’t need the money either.
This goes back to before Dewayne passed away so this is nothing new from Terry.
He tried to use Gary’s name for advertising of the addition of the bikes and Gary put a stop to that and he tried to use Honda’s name and Honda stopped that because those bikes are Honda’s.
It’s going to get nasty unless everything is returned and money goes back to Terry. Stay tuned
I can see bikes being owned and transferred through titles and sold. Only Gary earned his trophies, photos, helmets, etc. No one but Gary should be able to transfer the rights to those. Situation smells.
I hope not, this isn't over yet
Pit Row
Whatever issues in the Jones family that prevented Gary from controlling the sold items is not really the the buyer's province, having said this I seriously doubt this was done under a cloak of secrecy. Issues in settling estates through probate can take years, sometimes are actually never really "settled" to satisfy all parties, ongoing bickering among family members can drag the process on seemingly forever.
I think Gary Jones was shafted but not by Terry Good, for all anyone knows (I'd bet) the "Don Jones estate" executor(s) held 100% or majority control of what was legally defined as "in possession of the estate" during the finalization of probate, evidently Gary was not an executor or was not given enough input if he was to override others that were named executors.
Not picking sides but pointing out how this type of thing evolves, from the voice of my own experience (yes I was shafted too), settling my late father's estate took over 10 years of legal wrangling (with lots of back stabbing) and compared to the size of the Don Jones estate was a drop in the bucket.
It *sounds* like the dispute involving Gary was facilitated by a family member. But, regardless of that, I'm guessing that Mr. Good didn't get where he is without understanding that something like this needs to be resolved amicably and there are clear options remaining for doing just that where everyone comes away happy.
Compared to Gary's letter Good used more precise, business like language.
He mentioned that several bikes and other gear that he had arranged to buy- perhaps from Don Jones or from the estate executor had been removed by Gary and he expected to recover them though he was not taking a hard line about it.
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