A cheeky Londoner saw his opportunity to achieve his ambition of owning a sports car when acid bath murderer John Haigh went to prison.
He wrote to the killer in jail at Horsham asking Haigh to lend him his Alvis as he wouldn't be needing it for a while.
No one knows whether the bid was successful but the letter has been bought by Horsham Museum for £100.
Back in the Forties that sum would have probably bought them the car.
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