Grasshopper

Paul, Thanks very much for your reply and the recommendation. I will check them out. Yes the garage rental/storage issue is also being handled by my solicitor. It is an option to push the car to the area of visitors parking next to the flat, but I would have to break in to the car in order to steer! Probably not too difficult with a vintage car though. Having it towed to their house and sending them the bill is an interesting idea though, if I can retrieve costs. Then they can't come back at me for having "stolen" it. Thanks for the advice.

Hi, I have a rather strange situation which hopefully somebody can help me with. Firstly a bit of background, I'll try and keep this brief: I bought a flat at the end of 2013 (completed late December); the flat included a garage. When I took possession I found out that the previous owner had not removed their car from the garage, a 1973 (I think) DS23. The car is in a real state, just the body work alone looks like a lot of work, but knowing that these were valuable vehicles I was careful about how I dealt with it. All correspondence has gone through my solicitor, but no response was given by the previous owner. 6 months later the car is still there (!) but last week my solicitor served a letter stating that previous owner had 7 days to remove the car or I would dispose of it myself. This has got their attention, but they have also indicated that they won't be able to comply with the 7 days (also given their general conduct through the sale and in the last 6 months I have no expectation of them doing anything at all) I am in no rush, so won't be aiming to have it towed on day 8 or anything. If I am to dispose of it though I would rather sell/give it to somebody who will actually restore it because it could be an amazing car, and I would hate to see it go to waste. The owner keeps saying it's worth £20-40k, which it would be once restored but certainly not in the state it's in now. If I am to sell it/have it towed I need to show that I didn't swindle them of large sums of money. Does anybody know of an independent valuation service who could look at the car for me? The car is in Oxford city, if that makes any difference Thanks in advance, G