A business park on the site has attracted a tire store, a body shop and a showroom that will sell expensive used cars on consignment.
"These dot-com guys can't handle the payments anymore," said Eddie Manio, a sales associate at Bay Area Lease in Redwood City, which sells cars on consignment, taking roughly a 5percentt cut.
"When you put a car out on consignment, and it has not been returned to you after a long period of time, you can draw your own conclusions," said Mr. Cohen, who is a money manager.
The gang aimed to buy 180kg (400lb) of the drug in Amsterdam and transport the consignment by car to the coast of Normandy, France, where it was to be placed on a boat to Jersey.
It is punctuated by astonishing live performances that have the character of rites and rituals – the dismemberment of a car in a Los Angeles showroom, its consignment to a hellish, medieval foundry in Detroit, where it is smelted into iron and cast in the earth, the flooding of a dry dock in New York.
The paper couples the story about the crackdown with a picture story of 10 illegal migrants - thought to be Vietnamese - who "arrived in style" in the UK, hidden in a consignment of Maserati sports cars bound for a Surrey garage.
So our first stop was at Other Mothers consignment store to pick up a car seat.
Mr. Tokeley-Parry said that during the drive Mr. Schultz agreed to take the head on consignment and asked to have the car stop at a money-exchange office to get several thousand dollars as a down payment.
In his, a violent dispute about the purity of a consignment could wind up with someone in a car boot.
The annual classic car week each August draws no shortage of eye-popping consignments, as auction companies do their best to bring fresh, exciting cars to market.
