Strange & Stranger

I received a mystifying telephone message (as well as an email) from Alamo/National advising me that our car has been sold and asking me to call them and let them know where in the UK we are. The email promises me that they will deliver another at no inconvenience to us, but when I called as requested they told me to take the car to the York franchise (open only 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.). We weren't planning to stick around the city center tomorrow. On the other hand, it might be just as well to get the inevitable paperwork about the broken sideview mirror out of the way now as opposed to next week at Gatwick when we'll be wanting to catch the train into London to catch the train to Paris. Still, this seems very weird to me.