Exotic Enterprises
Paterson, New Jersey USA

22 June 2001

A reader pointed out to us today that Mark Liszka/Exotic Enterprises is still running ads in the kit car magazines. His ad reads "easy build," 14 different Countach (sic)", "over 24 exotic rebodies," "easy build bolt-on kits," "Limo kits," "kits in stock," Deal with the best!", "High-quality kits." Sigh. His ad also lists "www.exotic-enterprises.com" as their web address. Don't waste your time keyboarding it in. You'll get a dialog box that reads "The specified server cannot be found." Sigh.

Wednesday, 20 May 2000

EE customer/victim Mike Quercia informed us today that Carlisle (Pennsylvania) police hauled Mark Liszka away from his display booth... in handcuffs... at the Carlisle Kit Car Nationals show in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Seems that Mr. Quercia had a (Port Carbon, Pennsylvania) civil judgement against Liszka/Exotic Enterprises, which Liszka had ignored. In fact, Liszka hadn't even shown up at the court hearing.

For several years we've received a steady stream of serious complaints about this advertiser (in the kit car magazines) of exoticar replicas (incidentally, it should come as no surprise that those magazines have received the very same complaints we have... and they continue to lunge for EE's advertising dollars... and, as usual, provide no warning at all to you, their reader). The complaints run the gamut of allegations about poor fiberglass quality, unkept promises, delays and refusals to refund payment for (allegedly) shoddy merchandise, and more. We've confirmed (and photographed) for ourselves some of the allegations of shoddy fiberglass quality. We'll provide you with a few updated details of those complaints when time permits.

Below: photographic evidence of some of the product-quality complaints
we've received from Exotic Enterprises customers.

above: EE's ID nameplate 

above: EE's headlight pod

above: EE's hood hinge abomination

above: door-lift piston

above: brake cylinder provided and
installed by EE.

above: EE's airdam/fender fit

above: whale tail, photo 1

above: whale tail, photo 2

EE's "World Headquarters"

For a while, EE's Mark Liszka used this photograph to represent his big, "world headquarters." Sigh. This is just the clever use of Adobe Photoshop to superimpose the word "Exotic" on some random photo of another business enterprise. EE's "world headquarters" is/was a cramped and grimy garage behind Liszka's house.

Win A FREE Exotic (Enterprises) kit

We spotted this "Win a FREE (Exotic Enterprises) Kit" sandwich board at the firm's booth at the 1997 Kit Car Nationals show in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Make sure you ask them who the winner of the kit was, and how you can get in touch with the him (or her) so you can congratulate the lucky chap!

  

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