"It could have come right out of the Maltese Falcon. Certainly, the cloak-and-dagger aspect of the late night telephone call couldn't be denied. This was to be the solution to a mystery which had been plaguing me for years – the fate of the one-off Albatross sports car originally owned by cartoonist Peter Arno, which had ostensibly disappeared some 15 years ago."

Reading the story of the troubles Bill Hill had in identifying and researching the Albatross, Peter Arno's Mercury-chassised one-off swoopster, one can't help but wonder how differently the search would have turned out if Hill had the Internet at his disposal. Sure, there's even a Wikipedia page on the Albatross nowadays, but the page doubts whether any were built. That right there says a lot, I think.

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