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Tomorrow I am going to look at a house for sale where the owner wants me also to buy his collection of ten classic cars as well. I have no idea what they are yet.

I had a similar one last week where the old boy wanted me to take a house off his hands together with the shed full of antiques and a classic BMW motorbike.

Its odd how the two situations came along so close together...
 
Wasn't there a case last year where a chap was throwing in his Ferrari as part of the house sale just to gain publicity and stand out in the crowded housing market?
 
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Tomorrow I am going to look at a house for sale where the owner wants me also to buy his collection of ten classic cars as well. I have no idea what they are yet.

I had a similar one last week where the old boy wanted me to take a house off his hands together with the shed full of antiques and a classic BMW motorbike.

Its odd how the two situations came along so close together...
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Manks, you must be in the market for a mansion. Lucky boy.

JohnC
993turbo
 
Went to see the house today. The "collection" was as follows:

Fiat Topolino (Blue)
Wolseley 1500 (Black)
Morris Marina (Green)
Fiat 126 (White)
Morris Traveller (Rusty)
Austin Vanden Plas
Yugo
Massey Fergusson Tractor
Morris BMC Luton
Morris 1300
Wolseley 1100
6 x Scrap vehicles
Morris 1000
Austin 7
Singer 9
Vauxhall 12
Austin A30
James 250 1951 motorbike
Citroen Diane
Fiat 126

However, most were virtually scrap left out in a farm yard. The old boy doesn't actually live in the house, he lives in a caravan. I thought he would either want a ridiculously small sum for the house and cars or a huge one. Sadly it was the latter. He wants a vast sum, and when he told me the price of each car he was giving me the price of a good one, whereas his were not good.

Manks
 
So much for my mansion-idea, Manks!
Sounds like an old Norfolk farmer I used to know. He didn't need money personally, he was just trying to amass a large lump sum to give to his sons - believe he felt guilty about his past treatment of them.His "collection" was just like that - a mass of scrap. But he still viewed them with young eyes, as if he had just finished driving them.Completely out of touch with reality.

JohnC
993turbo
 
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