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My parents’ court case was finally over and my dad had six months to leave
the family home, Hoar Cross Hall. In
the meantime my mum had to find
the funds to buy him out and he had to find ano
ther house to live in. He also had an awful lot of stuff to move too! He eventually found a house in nearby Burton-on-Trent but as it was obviously a lot smaller he had to get rid of a lot of his possessions and one of
the first things to go was his Lotus Elite. He advertised it in
the local paper but instead of getting a phone call from a likely buyer,
the first call was from
the local tax office. Back in those days
they used to check advertisements in
the newspapers and...