Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Used to have a customer with a LARGE collection of classic UK made road/track bikes, offshore oil + gas person so would spend a lot of time bidding for stuff when at sea, then bring all his new treasure to us and get it assembled.
MOST of the time he would build sensible, correct period, right date, right looking kind of bikes, but will never forget when he brought in a 1930's pathe frameset that looked like it had been in canal, sent it away to Bob jacksons to be cut down to sort of fit 700c on it. Then Argos or similar for some kind of a wild paint job, then fitted a new campag record EPS ground (green edition when they first came out?) and some Bora wheels to it. Groupset was £3.xK, wheels were a few, same again in frame cutting and shutting and then some time for us.
Most gross bike I've ever seen, handled even worse than it looked, a true waste of money.