I found this on rec.auto.antique and it appealed to me. (Lagonda content.)
My father's death last year has me recalling this. Almost fifty years
> ago, my father took me on one of his occasional buying trips. He was a
> farm manager, and used to buy machinery from a "didicoi" family in the
> East Midlands of England. "Didicoi" is the term for a settled gypsy,
> and not derogatory. (Didicois were rarely true Roma gypsies.) Anyway:
> this extended family of numerous adults and countless kids, lived in a
> settlement of caravans etc, in what must have been 40 or 50 acres of
> scrap metal. You could find ANYTHING there --- buses, helicopter
> frames, railway parts, trucks and trailers and tractors.
>
> The chief chap, let's call him Hunt, did not read or write, but always
> dealt straight and fair. When he named a price, that was the price. I
> was about 10 or 11 on this occasion. Mr Hunt was talking to a London
> car dealer who had spotted a vintage LAGONDA among the junk, had asked
> to buy it, and the car was craned up onto one of Hunt's lorries to
> transport it to the dealer's place in London.
>
> At this point, the dealer got sticky, pointing out "extra damage" and
> various defects in the Lagonda, and countered with a lower bid. I can't
> truly remember, as my dad was holding me away from the "language" these
> chaps were using! Anyway, let's say Hunt had asked 500 pounds. The
> dealer said "No good, I'll give you 400." Hunt said "No, you can't
> have it." The dealer then offered 450, and Hunt said "No the price was
> 500 and you're trying to do me."
>
> The dealer eventually said "Okay, you can have your 500." But Hunt
> said "No, I told you you're not having it." The dealer was nonplussed,
> but Hunt told his sons to lift the Lagonda back off the lorry. Hunt
> said the dealer was dishonest and was treating him like a fool. The
> dealer then got generous and said "How about I bump it to 600 or so,
> and we can be friends?" Hunt refused, and amazingly the dealer went up
> (my father reported) to well over 1,000 pounds, cash in hand.
>
> I'll never forget the next bit: Hunt said "Look, I named you a fair
> price and you tried to cheat me. You are not having that car. You think
> you are better than me because I'm a didicoi, but you're not better
> than me. PUT IT IN THE CRUSHER, LADS." The Lagonda was crushed, in
> front of the dealer's eyes, and Hunt finished by telling him "NOW GO
> BACK TO LONDON AND LEARN SOME MANNERS."
>
> Honour counts, eh?
That's why my edress is "midlant" Karl