A Sleepy Hollow high-performance sports car maker has sued a parts supplier for nearly $311,000 for failure to deliver crucial components.
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus LLC accused PGF Technology Group Inc. of breach of contract, in a complaint filed on April 25 in U.S. District Court, White Plains.
PGF, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, “has not built or delivered a single wiring harness to SCG as specified in the purchase order,” the complaint states, “and is unable or unwilling to do so.”
SCG was founded by James Glickenhaus whose claims to fame include writing and directing movies, such as The Exterminator action film (1980), and acting in a couple of productions.
Glickenhaus, 74, of Rye, also is an avid collector of sports cars. According to news accounts, around 2005 he paid $4 million for a one-of-a-kind Ferrari P4/5 Pininfarina styled to his tastes.
As to his business, “Some companies build cars,” the SCG website states. “We build dreams.”
SCG designs, manufactures and tests ultra-high performance race cars for grueling competitions, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, then makes road-legal versions for sports car aficionados.
It was selling a 1,400 horsepower SCG 007S for $2.3 million in 2021, according to CarScoops.com, and a 650 horsepower SCG 004S fetched a mere $450,000.
Headquarters are in a nondescript building in a residential neighborhood in Sleepy Hollow, marked only with a small SCG plaque. SCG also runs a factory next to Danbury Municipal Airport, in Connecticut that can build 750 cars a year.
Last year, SCG agreed to pay PGF $458,695 for 35 custom auto wiring harnesses – the systems that transmit power and signals to electrical components – for cars that were being readied for production.
Unbeknownst to SCG, according to the lawsuit, about four months before the order was placed Watervale Equity Partners had invested in PGF, leaving the parts maker with “less manufacturing capacity and diminished capabilities.”
SCG says it didn’t know about the partnership until this past March, when PGF advised the automaker that the factory where it made wiring harnesses had been sold and it could no longer make the devices.
Then PGF allegedly cancelled the order unilaterally.
SCG is demanding a refund of $310,557 it says it has already paid for the devices, as well as unspecified monetary damages.
PGF did not reply to a message asking for its side of the story.
SCG is represented by White Plains attorney Edward J Phillips, of Keane & Beane P.C.
