Originally posted by P.L.A
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We should also remember that in 1961 £5,000 was a very large amount of money. Houses which now sell for £200,000 could be bought for under £3,000. The brand new super car of the age, the E-type Jaguar was introduced in 1961 with an on the road list price of £2,097.
One has to ask whether the sum of £5,000, or whatever it was, could have been spent more prudently with the aim of separating Gregsten and Storie and driving the former back into the arms of his wife? As Gregsten seems to have been a bit of a petrol head (yoof speak) an offer by Mrs G to the effect that if Mr. G left Valerie Storie and returned to his family, then he could have a brand new E-type Jaguar Roadster might have done the trick. It would have saved nearly £3,000, which Janet or her benefactor could have kept, and if Michael did not return she would have had a new car.
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