rdave

You insure a car for, say, £10,000 and a couple of years down the road it becomes an accident write-off, just try getting that insurance company to pay even £10,000 to repair it. Mr. Atkinson was in a rather unusual position in that his vehicle (for which reportedly he paid around £600,000) actually appreciated in value instead of depreciating as do our cheap runarounds. If they could have got out of it without paying almost £1 million, they undoubtedly would have.

SillBill precisely.

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Quickbeam , that's a reasonable reply, but WTM is asking, I think, if your reply was stupid or deliberately obtuse.