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I gave my car to what I thought was an auto body shop. The "owner" made contact with me through my father saying he could restore my 72 Pontiac. He slowly started working on it and it has been 2 years since I have had my car back. When I go to check up on it, it looks roughly the same. Primed but not much work done. I researched the man who is working on my car and he went to prison for running a body shop in Mansfeild, OH and never finished those cars as well and stole 300,000 total from people. I have made contact with another person who he has their car as well and they haven't seen their car in 2 years as well. This man's name is Keith Shellhouse. I cannot find his Buisness license and he has an expired LLC. When I went there to claim my car back with the police he state shop low and that I cannot get my car back since I have a balance due of 4,000. I already paid him $4,000 and the total restore cost was estimated $8,000. Since he stated Shop law I was not able to claim my vehicle. He said I could have my car back (in pieces and not painted) if I paid another $2,000. He did not reach any deadline he gave me. He keeps pushing off finish dates and never having the car done. He is running a scam of taking peoples money and cars and then never finishing the job.