Billionaire insurance CEO takes car dealer to court.

[Budflicker]

Oh Dear!


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7853557/B...

Coys agreed to repay the money but have not done so?

[craigturbo2]

Surely if you are paying 400k for a classic, you would do more homework on said vehicle..would have thought he would have staff member to carry out task..

[tr7v8]

craigturbo2 said:

Surely if you are paying 400k for a classic, you would do more homework on said vehicle..would have thought he would have staff member to carry out task..

Yup also German rules different to UK. In Germany TUV everything as a modification has to be TUV approved. If I was spending 4K let alone 400K I'd have done due diligence.

[popegregory]

Isn’t the standard PH response to this sort of thing to “chalk it up to experience?”

[Driver101]

There was a thread on here before about a very expensive classic 911 that turned out to made up of the wrong parts.

Is this this same car?

[Driver101]

I can't find the thread, but this must be the same car.

The owner started the thread and kept it updated. He couldn't name the dealer with PH rules.

[993rsr]

Driver101 said:

I can't find the thread, but this must be the same car.

The owner started the thread and kept it updated. He couldn't name the dealer with PH rules.

Different car, the other one was a 911S with a British buyer bought from a UK dealer.

[MDL111]

craigturbo2 said:

Surely if you are paying 400k for a classic, you would do more homework on said vehicle..would have thought he would have staff member to carry out task..

Have never paid that much for a car, but recently bid on a couple of cars on the basis of the information the dealers gave me (ultimately hope they don’t lie to me when I ask a question..). Have bought my last 4 cars unseen. Probably too trusting and will eventually get burned

[Andyoz]

craigturbo2 said:

Surely if you are paying 400k for a classic, you would do more homework on said vehicle..would have thought he would have staff member to carry out task..

Exactly what I thought.

Some people are just too rich. Wonder if he planned to drive it much.

[Driver101]

993rsr said:

Different car, the other one was a 911S with a British buyer bought from a UK dealer.

I'm sure it was a RS. The thread was closed when he was waiting for his money to be returned, but the dealer was stalling.

Everything about the story, value and circumstances sounds the same.

[Cheib]

There's an eye watering thread about Coys on 911 UK.

[Driver101]

Cheib said:

There's an eye watering thread about Coys on 911 UK.

Can you link it please?

[Peter911]

Driver101 said:

Cheib said:

There's an eye watering thread about Coys on 911 UK.

Can you link it please?

Or thread title or keywords, or first poster. Nothing leaping out at me

[LarJammer]

Driver101 said:

993rsr said:

Different car, the other one was a 911S with a British buyer bought from a UK dealer.

I'm sure it was a RS. The thread was closed when he was waiting for his money to be returned, but the dealer was stalling.

Everything about the story, value and circumstances sounds the same.

Definitely a different car, it was a 1972 S.

[Cheib]

Peter911 said:

Driver101 said:

Cheib said:

There's an eye watering thread about Coys on 911 UK.

Can you link it please?

Or thread title or keywords, or first poster. Nothing leaping out at me

I can’t find it either. PM me if you would like a summary....

[Mikebentley]

Didn’t a certain Mr Evans lose lots of money on a Ferrari with the wrong engine so there maybe a legal precedent on this.

[Cheib]

There was a similar case with a 356 Speedster a couple of years ago that a pretty well know Porsche specialist had sold as matching numbers car...which it wasn’t. I happened across it when it was at another Porsche specialist who had arranged for third party experts to inspect the car as part of legal proceedings.

Beautiful looking car....I would never buy an old car without a PPI. The buyer in this case had trusted the selling dealers reputation.

[av185]

Rerun of JD Classics.

[gtsralph]

Also a case over a 1920’s Bentley where it was held that it was correctly described as original by Stanley Mann even though non-original but correct specification parts had been fitted in maintaining the car over it’s lifetime.

“A Chippendale chair is still a Chippendale chair even though a leg or two might have been replaced using same wood”

[Fast Bug]

Driver101 said:

993rsr said:

Different car, the other one was a 911S with a British buyer bought from a UK dealer.

I'm sure it was a RS. The thread was closed when he was waiting for his money to be returned, but the dealer was stalling.

Everything about the story, value and circumstances sounds the same.

Nope definitely an S if it was the one I saw