MD 500s.
This one is for Eric Ferrett ... so I guess I would have been the 'tacky' sales guy who supplied dear Mike Hughes of Hughes of Beconsfield, with his 'tackiest' MD 500. I'm guessing it would have been late 1970s-early 1980s as the firm I worked for ... Spooner Aviation as a Hughes dealer, had the E model 500 on its sales stand at Farnborough. Mike had placed his order for the first of the new 'E' models to come into the country.
However, the moment Mike Hughes inspected the MD (Hughes in those days) he announced he wouldn't accept it since many of the parts were suffixed 'D' indicating they were for the earlier round nose D model. With the days rushing by I'm not sure how we got round the problem if indeed we ever did! PS. I loved the terrific 'Plumage' 500 paint scheme.