I had several times the opportunity to warn you about some motorcycle raffle events where nothing is raffled. Here is another example. Dave Goodwin Jr. from Amarillo, Texas, owner of “Goody’s World Famous Pop Corn”. commissioned Paul Teutul Senior to custom build a chopper with a theme incorporating his popcorn shop (!) and the military. The custom bike was featured in an episode of “American Chopper” in November 2013. Construction was financed by 2 investors for a total of $160,000. The “Pop Corn” bike was supposed to be auctioned on May 30, 2014 to benefit the Kansas-based American Fallen Warriors Memorial Foundation.. The Amarillo Global News reports that both Goodwin Jr. and the OCC motorcycle have vanished…The Amarillo, Texas Police Dept and the local FBI office are investigating…
OCC Chopper To Be Raffled To Benefit Military Disappears. So Does OCC’s Client.
Published by October 15th, 2014 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.22 Responses to “OCC Chopper To Be Raffled To Benefit Military Disappears. So Does OCC’s Client.”
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What a shame , that someone paid $ 160.000.00 for that !!!!!!!! talk about a rip off .. Good thing it is gone,so someone did not get stuck paying the taxes on that crap!!!To bad for the fallen worriers memorial foundation. I am sure they could of used the funds. It sucks people take advantage of things like this.
too bad it didnt get raffled but a missing OCC bike is a good thing….especially one that ugly….
older article: Goody’s World Famous Popcorn owes $45K in taxes:
http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2014-03-10/state-goodys-world-famous-popcorn-owes-45k-sales-taxes
I did a Google Search on Goody’s Popcorn and found something quite interesting. In March of 2014, property was seized due to $45,000 in unpaid taxes according to Amarillo Globe news paper. I’m thinking this is what happened to the bike and the client. Here’s a link to the article I found.
http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2014-03-10/state-goodys-world-famous-popcorn-owes-45k-sales-taxes
160 grand!! WTF!!
The only thing worse than a Con Artist .. is a ConArtist that uses a genuine charity with serious needs in order to create his or her con .
So though I’ll agree in most cases a missing OCC bike would be a good OCC bike .. in this case its causing some serious damage . Something I hope happens to the Con Artist himself . A serious amount of damage that is 😉
Seen occ bikes with cracked frames, 160K omg!
Represents everything wrong with the American custom motorcycle industry. Compare it with efforts at the recent AMD World Championship and go figure.
Pity as there are still true artisans in the States – they have just gone into “hiding”.
There was a time when OCC served to give exposure to the industry and raised its profile – but the inanities of the very same OCC crowd, Billy Lane and the likes, now serious customers look elsewhere.
Perhaps this site can make some effort to give more publicity to the true workman in the US.
160,000… cheap!!!!
got one on craigslist for which was paid 179,000 and are now asking 35k
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/mcy/4646909948.html
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OK so the scooter is gone.
OCC did the build, but did they ever get paid $160K …..???
Did an insurance company cover the OCC “$160k loss”….. ???
Just interested in how all this works.
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i consider every begger on the street and “benefit giveaway” to be a scam of some magnitude, sad as that is.
Someone actually rode an OCC bike enough to have the frame crack? Maybe the motor mount bolts were not tightened. I cant see anyone putting many miles on one of those POS, advertisements. They are all the same deal and most sit in some corporate office and never get ridden. They are too impractical to ride mostly anyways. Next up, large front wheel baggers. COOL (not)
I heartily agree to all of the above.
That’s a whole new level of ugly. I can’t even get past the headlight, let alone the rest of the bike. Is Senior letting the janitor design bikes?
I have also reported on a lot of Scams by People who say they are raising money for Charities and or Organization.
If you have facts on any one doing this please inform Cyril, myself and others.
The idea is to help deserving Charities and Organizations while exposing the Bad Ones.
The world is full of people like this and in fairness to all of us we should share Good and Bad Information on them.
Most organizations are to promote knowledge or awareness about a cause, very few actually donate to the actual people or research they are promoting awareness for.. Its a sad, and screwed up. I always ask before I donate if they are just for awareness or actually for a cause.
Mis. Behaves.
Lucky it didn’t raffle, some poor unfortunate bastard might have won it!
Combat Vets come home feeling out of place. like you don’t connect. And no wonder, with the lip service paid by the Teutels on this “Veteran’s” Bike.
That it cost 160k$? That may have been what drove the popcorn king into arrears. But I’m thinking anyone who’s buying bikes from anyone associated with OCC nowaday; shouldn’t be running a company, popcorn OR otherwise…
The 150K to 200K build costs for those bikes was all about the advertising. For your money, you got one or two hours of prime time advertising on a wildly popular (at the time) cable tv show. Taking posession of the bike at the end of the build was almost incidental to the process. Of course, you could still use the bike for corporate promotions, and the whole thing was written off as a business expense.
This is why I never took Paul Teutel Jr seriously as a custom bike builder. Virtually every bike that came out of his shop was done for television, and with corporate sponsorship. Given a 200K budget, and access to top level craftsmen, anyone who reads Cyril’s blog could “build” a very nice custom bike, and never get their hands dirty.
The OCC programs had almost nothing to do with actual motorcycling, and those “theme” bikes share little in common with motorcycles that were built to ride. Enjoy them for what they were: entertainment.
Thank you Rogue !!!!!
Life is hard for the charities here in the middle of the country
1 group I know has already folded & 2 more probably won’t survive till this time next year
It burns me to see the the next generation not give a crap about what has gone on before.
As long as they can ride helmet choice, they;ll ride to bike night
but won’t go on a “run” for a group that been around 35 yrs & have documented donations
to many & varied charities. I guess that is the way of the world
It used to be that you learned a lot from old bikers, I did !!!!!
I wonder who’s going to be around to pass on those life lessons
Meanwhile crap like this goes on & on & gives everyone a bad rap !!!!
I would not give 2 cents for this OCC bike! Hell ! probably could not trade it for a Sportster or a Scout ??
Dude, that’s a lot of popcorn. . .
Many good programs and charities have closed down or been hurt by stuff like this, it’s too bad.