Man Buys Woman's Cheating Husbands Car For £1

Libertewhite

I might have derped the title. Thought you guys would get a kick out of this.

So I was in the car with my mother when she tells me this story a man told herself and my father in the 90s, when we were using £ pounds as a currency.

The family was camping in Co. Down when I was round 8 or 9 and my father used to go around to other campers and talk about camping... as fathers do.
He was talking to some other camper when they started talking about cars.
The man says that he bought his current car for £1 from a woman on the BuyAndSell. He claimed that the woman found out her husband was cheating on him so and they were getting a divorce. Part of the agreement was to sell his car, so she would get half. Now this car was the guys baby. Apparently it was only a few months old. My mother can't remember what the make of the car was, all she can remember was that it was "flashy".
So the woman decided to sell the husbands car in the BuyAndSell and put it in the paper for £1 and didn't say in the ad why she was selling it.

Camper man just decided to ring her up and confirm the price was right, cause normally stuff that price was just spam, right?. He went to check out the car and she told him that he was the only person to answer the ad.
He bought it there and then. Got the papers and gave her the pound, laughing away.

She gave the cheating ex-husband 50 pence.

Sleepy

There's been a few instances of it on eBay in the past, including guys selling their own cars for buttons because the divorce court / judge had ordered it to be liquidated as part of the divorce settlement.

Tea 1000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4122842.stm

Sleepy

I wonder what legal recourse you'd have if the car was registered in your name rather than the wife's?

Libertewhite

Sleepy wrote: »

I wonder what legal recourse you'd have if the car was registered in your name rather than the wife's?

I was wondering that myself. Surely there must be something you can do if you owned the car and someone else signed the book. I have yet to actually see or sign a book and I know nothing about how it works.

Atlantic Dawn

Sleepy wrote: »

I wonder what legal recourse you'd have if the car was registered in your name rather than the wife's?

I suppose it's another reason to only buy a car from the person named on the logbook and not some randomer.

Tea 1000

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose it's another reason to only buy a car from the person named on the logbook and not some randomer.

Sure if you're only paying a quid for a Lotus Esprit you might as well chance it!!

burrows

I seem to recall at the time that Tim Shaw's Lotus was actually registered in his wife's name for some reason.

Incidentally it is the same Tim Shaw that was on Fitth Gear and now Car S.O.S..

bmstuff

Sleepy wrote: »

I wonder what legal recourse you'd have if the car was registered in your name rather than the wife's?

If you have no marriage contract then wife and husband have a 50% share on everything.
More or less, i am no lawyer

slimjimmc

Sleepy wrote: »

I wonder what legal recourse you'd have if the car was registered in your name rather than the wife's?

The registered owner is not necessarily the legal owner. If the missus can show she bought the car then it's her's to sell.

bmstuff wrote: »

If you have no marriage contract then wife and husband have a 50% share on everything.
More or less, i am no lawyer

AFAIK that's not the case in Ireland. Pre-nuptial agreements are also not enforceable though a court may opt to consider it.

jimmyw

Tea 1000 wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4122842.stm

Is he the pain in the butt that does the show "Car Sos" with Fuzz Townsend?

Sam Kade

Libertewhite wrote: »

I might have derped the title. Thought you guys would get a kick out of this.

So I was in the car with my mother when she tells me this story a man told herself and my father in the 90s, when we were using £ pounds as a currency.

The family was camping in Co. Down when I was round 8 or 9 and my father used to go around to other campers and talk about camping... as fathers do.
He was talking to some other camper when they started talking about cars.
The man says that he bought his current car for £1 from a woman on the BuyAndSell. He claimed that the woman found out her husband was cheating on him so and they were getting a divorce. Part of the agreement was to sell his car, so she would get half. Now this car was the guys baby. Apparently it was only a few months old. My mother can't remember what the make of the car was, all she can remember was that it was "flashy".
So the woman decided to sell the husbands car in the BuyAndSell and put it in the paper for £1 and didn't say in the ad why she was selling it.

Camper man just decided to ring her up and confirm the price was right, cause normally stuff that price was just spam, right?. He went to check out the car and she told him that he was the only person to answer the ad.
He bought it there and then. Got the papers and gave her the pound, laughing away.

She gave the cheating ex-husband 50 pence.

If it's true she only got 50p herself also, not a very bright woman was she?

_Kaiser_

Sam Kade wrote: »

If it's true she only got 50p herself also, not a very bright woman was she?

I think you're missing the point

Sam Kade

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I think you're missing the point

She gets half the price of the car but she didn't want the husband to gain out of it but she is losing out herself also. She's still not a bright woman Either way this story is an urban myth as it's all over the place.

Greenmachine

Would imagine selling someone else's property could qualify as theft as well as fraud.