[ROVERNET - UK] Re: Adventures in Rover land Part 2
Geoff Kirkpatrick
britcarnut at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 3 16:42:37 BST 2005
No, he's not a Brit. He goes by various names - Kevin Hubbard or Harold
Willis, though I learned from the Boca Raton (Florida) Police Dept. that
his actual name is Harold Hubbard. When I called them to file complaints
about the guy, they already knew exactly who he was. I know that right
now he has the Florida DMV and perhaps the state attorney's office after
him on other cases, so I'm hopeful he will be off the streets soon. I
ended up filing a claim with Ebay's fraud insurance company and reaching a
settlement with them, then reselling the car (with full disclosure of all
its problems) for a little over half what I paid for it. I'll still end
up a few thousand dollars in the hole after it all.
>
> What was the name of this guy Geoff? It sounds like the fine fellow I
> bought
> a 1968 MG Midget from. Was he a Brit?
>
> Slats
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Kirkpatrick" <britcarnut at yahoo.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:14 AM
> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: Adventures in Rover land Part 2
>
>
> >I guess I must be sitting on a bloody fortune, with three of the 99
> > existing Rover P4's in the world! :-)
> >
> > I'm the lucky new owner of Alan's car, by the way. I'm having a great
> > time with it. I'm planning to take it to the Palo Alto All-British
> show
> > on the 11th.
> >
> > This auctioneer sounds like he's straight out of a Lovejoy novel. I
> do
> > feel sorry for the car's buyer; it sounds like he has perhaps a $5K
> car at
> > best, not a $13K one, and it really was sold under false pretenses.
> > Having recently been taken by a Florida crook from whom I bought a
> > Mercedes 600SEC that turned out to be little better than a parts car,
> I
> > don't find con artists amusing except in fiction!
> >
> > Geoff Kirkpatrick
> >
> >
> >>
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
- William Lyon Phelps
Geoff Kirkpatrick, 382 Riverside Avenue, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, USA
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