Was bored and typed V8 pickup into ebay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Holden-Maloo-R8-2006-56-...

Certainly got my interest to travel down for a look at that price.

I think that would be more than fair if £13.5k was the total figure - but with VAT will be £16.2k

Yes, I noticed that and amended my post.

It could be that the car has only ever been owned by companies, but if not then the garage can only charge VAT on their profit (as they have to with all purchases), so they may be boosting their profit at the suggestion that the extra is going to the VAT man.