Open letter to Richard Garvie aka Tallboy aka Racing Rivals...
Richard,
You’ll no doubt be interested to hear how the Farnborough Show went at the weekend, given how committed you are to the V8 Trophy series.
The great news is that it went extremely well, with thousands of fans crowding the display throughout both days, especially when we started the engines and made a noise to rival most of the roar from the air!
We’ve all got bad backs from lifting hundreds of spindly (and not so spindly!) children in and out of the cars, and there’s no doubt that many of the resulting photos will show up online and provide much-needed PR.
It would have been nice to have had more cars there, but you can’t blame Colin White for pulling out after you conned us all with your fairy stories about sponsorship from Mars. For all the truth in that one, maybe you meant the planet, rather than the confectionery giant. We’re just kicking ourselves for being drawn in again by your elaborate fabrications.
Of course, you were always going to get found out in the end, and your silence when you were asked to transfer the non-existent funds last week said all we needed to know.
Anyway, the other really good news is that we’ve finally been able to rid ourselves of one of the most persistently irritating dreamers to blight our concerted efforts to rebuild our great series. Any remaining shred of credibility we may have been allowing your unfeasible yarns has now completely disappeared.
I would imagine you’re a little disappointed, as you no longer have an audience to play out your weird fantasies to. In case you’re left with any doubt over the result of your actions of the last couple of weeks, let me spell it out to you –
Nobody involved with the V8 Trophy series, Rockingham, or oval racing in the UK in general, will ever take you seriously again. In fact, nobody even wants to see you, hear you or speak to you again!
(Actually, that’s not strictly true, as quite a few people I met at the weekend would like to have a very brief one-way conversation with you. I think there was also some mention of a desire to insert a wheel gun in a completely inappropriate hole, but I was too squeamish to listen to it all. I hope I managed to convince them that paying you any further attention was more than you deserved, and would give you a completely unjustified opportunity to make up some more semi-plausible stories)
So, this is goodbye from all of us. Feel free to turn your attentions to another hobby where your over-active imagination can run wild. You’re also welcome to buy a ticket to come and watch us anytime, if only to marvel at how we could possibly have managed without you!
Yours with great relief,
Skid, Duane, Tony, Neil, all the car owners, drivers and fans.
I'm down £700 thanks to this dreamer!
Once I realised I'd been conned and researched a few of his schemes and past jobs in the radio industry, I could see he was "sick". Is anyone doing anything to make sure he doesn't carry on conning others? Surely where money is involved, there's a crime!
LukeCern Torquay
Verifiable facts about Richard Garvie
It has now been revealed to me that Richard Garvie is a serial fraudster who has mislead countless people, including his family who have confirmed these facts to me. Independently I have determined that he has a criminal record and has mislead the police who have in the past been asked to investigate his activities. It is important that this individual is revealed to the world for who and what he really is! A professional and unscrupulous criminal. I have established correspondence with radio stations that have made it publically clear that he has nothing to do with them. I have established connections with Motorsports organisations that have been drawn into activities that have compromised their integrity and reputation. I have discovered claims by him that he has collected funds for charity and if that is true, the funds will undoubtedly have been used in a manner not intended by those who were drawn into contributing to apparently good causes that never really existed. I have discovered websites from which he had intended to make further claims as to his fictitious status and as a platform from which to defraud others. I have evidence of transactions on Ebay which have resulted in losses to those who made payments. Everything he has created in what appears to be a fantasy world is in fact part of a portfolio of criminal activity conceived to raise funds for his everyday enjoyment at the expense of other people who have been taken in by his very convincing lies. The reality is that he has no professional connections with anyone in the racing or broadcasting industries. In fact, he has no driving experience other than destroying a stolen vehicle. He has no connections in any industry but has one single daily objective which is to obtain money by deception. My full investigation will now be passed to the police to be added to the records they already hold.
All take note!
If anyone can add evidence to what I already have, please PM me
