From time to time on my travels here in Kent, Surrey and Sussex I have seen a tree surgeon who has a Lamborghini four-wheel-drive. It’s an ugly brute of a car. The Lamborghini is signwritten and the guy describes himself as ‘the Lamborghini of tree surgeons.’ I saw him in the Surrey village of Outwood, stopped my car and had a chat with him. He told me the Lambo has cost him an absolute fortune in repairs and maintenance. He is on the point of selling it and reckons it’s worth some £45,000. I talked on the phone to my brother in America and he reckons that there is a Lambo 4WD near where he lives in California. That car is up for sale at $20,000 - a lot cheaper than the tree surgeon’s.

Would I be on to a winner here if I bought the American one? Freight charges are about £3,000 and it would come on a container ship to Liverpool docks. Is there a demand for these quirky cars on the classic car market? Incidentally, the tree surgeon bought the car from a pop star that lives in Sussex and forgot that he had the car stored in a barn.