• Ex- Malcolm Pray celebrated collection • Highly desirable seventh series version • One of only 14 survivors and said to be the only example in Europe • Beautifully proportioned and well-crafted factory coachwork • 6.3 Litre straight 8 engine After a brief recession at the end of World War 1, the American economy had virtually a complete decade of the most amazing prosperity the country had ever seen.

The United States was already motorised to a far greater degree than Europe or anywhere else (Henry Ford and the Dodge brothers had seen to that) but throughout the 1920s the choice and splendour available to the wealthy increased massively.

Cadillac made some very high-quality machines, as did Lincoln, but both had the faintest taint of mass production due to their parent companies being General Motors and Ford, and among the other prestige Marques, Pierce-Arrow were unquestionably well crafted, but tended to have slightly frumpy coachwork.

Of the remainder, Packard stood out, being ...