I think this has been here for long enough so I shall quote Tom Threlfall to tell you the story. Although this is posted on All Fools' Day, the story is true - but quite appropriate to today!
The Butler-Lacey
Tom Threlfall wrote in 1984
A theology student of my acquaintance - he later took the cloth - becoming tired of Motor Sport magazine's long dissertations on forgotten and mostly very forgettable makes, invented a light car called the Butler-Lacey and he started a long and erudite correspondence with the magazine upon the topic. We were expected to write to the editor during the summer vacation from far-away places impersonating elderly gents who could well remember seeing a car of that make coming rapidly down Lynton hill (or Mam Tor, or wherever) with its brakes alight, and becoming a total write-off at the bottom. The brakes were this mythological beast's weak point, and the reason that none was known to have survived. I recall being employed by this budding cleric to produce a photograph of his brain-child, which was in fact a three-quarter rear shot of an Austin heavy twelve, full of undergraduates in the upper parts of period costumes, and outside Grantchester church. The picture was underexposed, out of focus, and not fixed for long enough, so that it went all yellow.
I think Amsterdam found a reasonably relevant few items which revealed (more or less) that it was a hoax, so a point for him I think.
