Mike,
Selling L75 ONG was an odd experience.
I received a phone call on a sunday lunchtime and fella said could he come and look at her, it turned out he was coming from Manchester over 200 miles away, he turned up about 5pm, didn't want to drive her, listened to the engine and said it sounded a bit noisy so I told him it was quite normal with 16v twin cams, he rang his mechanic on his mobile who listened and said no problem, he promptly paid me I think about £4K in cash and off he went.
By the details he left me he was a car dealer of some kind although I couldn't quite figure out what.
I tried having a look on line at the DVLA for her shortly afterwards, and she'd gone, this was about the date you show as last licenced, I think she either got put onto a private plate or went abroad.
He seemed very keen to get hold of her and she was in A1 condition so other than that, the only other thing would be she was written off in an accident, and if that was the case she wouldn't still show on the DVLA records.
L585 HAN, I'd love to see how she is now, or perhaps I wouldn't! made a real error of judgement with selling her, I was strapped for cash at the time and decided to sell but I took a 1994 Dedra in part exchange, Big Mistake, it was the worst Dedra I'd owned, or seen up to then, it was always going wrong, something that isn't normal with Dedra's, I came to the conclusion that it had suffered through not being looked after, or serviced properly, as cosmetically it was very good.
Brian
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