Class 2, #60 - Tom Falconer - before he started Claremont Corvette Tom was (he may still be) an Architect with a practice in an old windmill in Claremont Road, Newcastle. I used to call on his as a technical rep back in the day (20+ years ago) and he used to deal in used Corvettes from the ground floor of the building. He showed me around and I noticed a black 1975 (ish) 427 convertible sitting there looking at me. Yours for £2500 he said. I didn't have the money. I didn't have the bloody money!!!!!!!!!
What you needed of course, was for somebody to build a motorway through your home, which was of course how DP got started. The M1 was constructed across the family's land and the compensation helped to pay for the first cars.
Reminded me of this