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Henderson classic car dreams turn into a nightmare for at least 30 victims
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Henderson classic car dreams turn into a nightmare for at least 30 victims

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Glenn Puit·about 1 month ago
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Tina Williams and and her husband, Daniel, dreamed of restoring a classic 1962 Chevrolet pickup truck their family had owned since it was brand new some 64 years ago. The California couple did their research and eventually hired a Las Vegas Valley classic truck restoration business, Americana Consulting, run by Henderson resident Anthony Tomaio, to do the rehab on the Chevy. “We talked to him,” Tina Williams said. “He gave us names and phone numbers of people. One was in Tennessee. One was in Texas. One was somewhere else. We called them. They sent us videos of trucks he supposedly fixed. They said how happy they were. We thought, ‘OK this is great.’” Before the couple gave Tomaio any money for the restoration, however, they traveled to Southern Nevada to check out Tomaio’s purported auto repair shop near Boulder Highway. Everything appeared legitimate. “He had a perfect shop with multiple trucks in it,” Tina Williams said. “He had a crew of people working there for him.…

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