The Duesenberg has subsequently come forward, having been consigned for auction on Friday at Hershey, Pa., as part of a week of collector car activities planned there.
Having been consigned to the dustbin of television at some point in the 1980s, the anthology series is back in vogue.
Bristol can have no complaints, having been consigned to another season in the Championship by well-organised opponents who rose triumphantly to the occasion on another raucous West Country night.
Having been consigned to market-stall partywear for a decade, its rehabilitation into high fashion society was confirmed at 2014's Met Gala, when Cara Delevingne, Rihanna and Margot Robbie all chose outfits that bared a toned slice of ab.
The story of the opera is derived from a passage in the 30th canto of Dante's Inferno, which mentions, in an unflattering fashion, Gianni Schicchi who was an actual Florentine as having been consigned to the eighth circle of hell with other forgers and cheats for disguising himself as Buoso Donati, a recently deceased Florentine aristocrat, in order to obtain Donati's wealth for himself.
Having been consigned to barracks since the New Year, however, and having had my mind pummelled by unmissable new television shows, January sale advertisements, and what's hot in 2008 lists, I can't help thinking - what if the Hale-Bopp-Hoppers were right?
