I'm not sure I should be commenting on this story because the Mail say "Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons."
The Evening Standard of London, from whom they admit they got the story, seem happy enough to take comments though. Maybe they have better lawyers.
The story is actually about a lawyer - and, like those commenting within The Evening Standard, I have little sympathy for him.
Basically, the lawyer has bought one of these, a 405 saloon, for £20K...
This was particularly bad luck for all concerned because it appears that Bristol don't have the expertise to perform these alterations.
So the lawyer took Bristol to Court for breach of contract (Bristol say they didn't sign any legal documentation) and the judge agreed with the lawyer.
I was always told that a verbal contract "wasn't worth the paper it wasn't signed on".
The lawyer is asking for up to £300K.
Not sure why, he's only shelled out £50K so far and I guess he still has the car.
The Evening Standard article contains a basic error as well that carries through to The Mail. I thought it seemed strange that he would buy a car of which only 43 were built and then want to radically change it. So I checked on Wikipedia. Yes , I know - but I reckon this page was created by a car-nerd so will be right.
There I found the 405 saloon picture that the Evening Standard had used plus the two pictures I have used
and I also found out that it was the Drophead Coupe that only 43 examples of were built - he was trying to create a 44th example.
I hope he doesn't get awarded big money - the decision will be next year but one of the reasons that Bristol no longer have the same expertise is redundancies after recovering from this.
Now, I wonder if anyone would be interested in turning a Peugeot 405 saloon:
into a Peugeot 405 coupe:
Bet that wouldn't cost £153K