I remember something about it subsequently being chopped about and having the modern running gear installed. It doesn't look like that has been declared to DVLA though
I was over near Bristol yesterday and this was parked outside one of my favourite junk type shops.
It is fabulously shabby, with loads of filler and surface rust.
Many years ago in a previous job I used to do work in a country park. We had problems with the farmer driving cows down a track as they tended to veer off onto a boardwalk path for the public. I was getting costs to put "kissing gates" on the junctions. The landscape architect thought it would be cheaper to put signs until I pointed out that the cows couldn't read.
This is the same person who thought that the water in a fountain was on a slope. (The bricks were not level(
Next time join in on the conversation with them, offer helpful suggestions, or alternatively pretend the chap is in a pub and start arguing that they have had enough to drink and spilled your pint that should go down well with their boss.