Sad indeed. There are many things that are genuinely "important", this fake pretend thing isn't one of them.
The giveaway was the red sheets over the seats. as you said strange what people do. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The psychology of 'vested' ownership has some twists and turns indeed. You see it at its most extreme with share farmers where their hard work builds an attachment that's often beyond sanity. The more effort invested the harder for them to walk away despite being on an obvious hiding to nothing. The internet just adds an extra overlay of human weakness. Of course we're looking at different psychology between the internet fantasist and the vested owner with an internet presence. The best of the latter acknowledge someone else is paying for "his" project / car etc, at least, and can be forgiven for a degree of vesting.
After looking at all his pics he posted of recent I'm not to use sure if he was faking it or not. All he really needed to do was organise a spotting session with me @ eurobay for 100% verification
I gave him an opportunity to provide bone fides in private. Didn't do it and was already banned back in november. So...