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>> They turn up in car boot sales occasionally. I'll keep an eye out
>> for one, and maybe any of the other British readers of this group
>> who regularly frequent car boot sales could do the same.

> I don't know the reference "car boot sales" [...] I've never heard
> of a "car trunk sale" over here
> What happens at such sales?


They're flea markets held in car parks (or areas usable as such) where
most of the sellers arrive in cars or vans and put their sale tables
beside their vehicles. Usually at weekends, often in school playgrounds
or the parking areas beside churches, though the biggest one in Edinburgh
is in a disused bus garage converted into an indoor car park.

They began in the early 1980s and for most people they're one of the few
positive things to have come out of the Thatcher era, not that Thatcher
can claim any credit personally for the idea. They're one of Britain's
major cultural institutions, attended by about as many people as go to
church and Sunday football matches put together.

They're generally vast seas of tat with isolated floating items of the
utterly bizarre. I once saw a radium corset from the 1930s on sale at
one; those things are classed as *high-level* radioactive waste, and
would incur disposal charges accordingly. The simple solution? see if
anybody wants to buy it for a few quid... come to think of it, Thatcher
could have given that seller a peerage for entrepreneurial spirit.

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