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This is an oft repeated story. Apparently he turned up dressed as a tramp with his favourite saucepan and was treated with kind consideration by Mr Crook. He turned out to be a gozillionaire who dressed up for the crack, and to test Mr Crook. He did buy the car by all accounts. Personally I am somewhat surprised that Mr Crook saw him without an appointment. There has possibly been some embellishment and rather being a tramp he may have been wearing an off the peg suit or slip on shoes.

This story is a nice counterpoint to Mr Crooks practice of paying tramps to sit on the Rolls-Royce stand at the motorshow.

I like the story about the customer who had to beat Mr Crook at scaletrix before Mr Crook would accept his order. It took him all day.

I am sure there are many more anecdotes out there

Paul