Anyone know whatever happened to Wayne Skiles?

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As in "Bad Viper" ?

I exchanged a couple of posts with him a few years ago. You still have his Beast ?

You could try him at his store in L .A.
 
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Hey Steve, thanks for replying. Yes, still have it (pic of it in NV mountains is my avatar) - in fact I went thru all his VCA.org posts extracting details about the car - learned Unitrax put the 3.45's in it which I didn't know - what I really would like to know were the VEC1 settings he verbally told me - LOL did you read his post that BV was History and described me at the sale? In those posts he mentioned he had owned 59 cars back in 2001 - I wonder if he ever made a list (and how many so far now?)

I did find his store (I think it is in San Bernardino), I saw CLOSED on Yelp and thought Oh No... But then maybe it was that the store was closed for the day. Sounds like he had a McClaren around 2014, the Silver State talk about the Drop Tanks which I loved.
 
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I checked my address book and had his shop and home numbers - shop is bad number and home was re-used and not his.
The shop number on the internet is the one I had in my book (909) 383-9000
He's on LinkedIn with little activity https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-skiles-1497421b/
Now I'm trying to talk to people who may have known him or did work for him. Just talked to Doug Levin, recalls name but that's about it.
 
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Thanks, talked to him. He remembered me. We talked about the Silver State and the VOI in Nashville when I ran into him. He's still into the cars. Said it's OK to say, "This was Wayne Skiles' Bad Viper" when I sell 'his' car. (Where I come from, something becomes "yours" only after you sell it - can't wait for it to be mine Haha)
 
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It never occurred to me to check to see if I had his email. I did, but it's defunct - it was kingcoin... Never thought to ask him if he was living in FL like his area code.
 

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