Tall tales in car adverts...

[Northernchimp]

Something wrong with this story...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151477406023?ru=http%3A%...

Here's a clue...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Howard

What an odd thing to lie about.

[shake n bake]

Yaaaay a post with links in, how exciting.

[Impasse]

shake n bake said:

Yaaaay a post with links in, how exciting.

I clicked 'em!
Because of my good nature I'll pass on what I gleaned from the links. Advert claims car was owned by actor, yet actor died the year before car was made. Ta daa!

[Trailhead]

What's the problem?

[cj2013]

Trailhead said:

What's the problem?

He died the year before it was registered

Edited by cj2013 on Monday 17th November 21:46

[Phil Dicky]

Regardless looks a very good example.

[KAgantua]

could it be a mix up

he bought it off the actors widow but it was infact hers.
It could have 'T Howard' in the logbook, but maybe her name begins with a T too?

[rallycross]

Yes 140 bhp out of a 1.6 205 Gti takes some serious work a cat cam and a revised throttle body may not produce 140 bhp!

[Driver101]

The front wing would annoy me too much. The shade doesn't even look close.

[izzzzythedog]

assumption yeah but even if there was cross over and say the old fella had left a deposit its a pug 205 gti , not exactly a coffin dodgers car

[Northernchimp]

I want one of these by the way if anybody wants to sell me one, preferably the 1.9.

[Abagnale]

I just bought a car & the dealer claimed he'd bought it off a member of 80's jazzpoptastic funk lite combo, Shakatak. So, what with the world being the way it is now, I went on Twitter & asked George Anderson, Shakatak's bass guitarist if he knew the car & any of its history.

To no surprise at all, he told me no one in Shakatak had ever owned that car. Doesn't matter either way, but why make something like that up?