My boyfriend is the most naïve person there is when it comes to giving people money to do things. One of his supposed friends is a mechanic and was fixing his car (a lincoln towncar) promised him it would only take a few months, I've now been dating him for almost three months and this promise was made long before I came into the picture. The problem is now that we no longer want the car and his friend is refusing to give us the money or the parts that he purchased with our money. Also, he paid someone for a transmission that they then put in another car and told him that they would repair the transmission taken out of that car to put in his, it would only take another 2 months or so, and about another 200 dollars.
I just wanted to know that even though there is no paperwork to prove that he gave his friend all this money, is there any way that legally we can get this money back... Just let me know... thanks!

HI,
Without some type of paperwork, receipts, or something, no, not much chance of getting the money back.
Take MONTHS to fix it?
Your boyfriend, I hope, has learned a valuable lesson. No mechanic should be given a car to fix if he/she says it will take "months".
I also have a Towncar, 6 yrs old, with 60,000 miles on it. The computerized system also runs the transmission, and sometimes, can only be fixed through a Dealer Service Department, because they have equipment to read the computers in the car. Most individual garage mechanics do not have this type of sofisticated equipment; cannot read info on "Service Bulletins" for some parts, cause Ford won't release them, except to Dealerships.
Your boyfriend is out the money, and hopefully, the car is titled in his name. If it is, call the Police department, file a complaint, and get the car back, hopefully with the old transmission.
I do wish him the best of luck.

Hopefully he paid them with a check, not actual cash.

But in eiher way he can try to sue them, and take any witness, proff or what ever he has.

And next time, take cars to real garages, and second these people are not "friends" they are people he knows and obvouisly not well