This car has been extensively restored, but over the course of at least two ownerships.

It was bought most recently as an unfinished project by a firm in Cheshire.

As found, the car had been bodily restored and painted and reputedly had the engine rebuilt.

However, it came with no receipts for the work at all; indeed all printed history had vanished bar a V5C.

The new owners went through the car to list everything that still required work.

This eventually produced some £8000 in recent bills for extensive work to the wiring, re-plating the chrome, new tyres and a great many sundry mechanical parts to get everything road-ready.

Culminating with a rolling-road set-up for those triple carbs, the Alvis is said to need nothing other than a new owner willing to put miles on the clock.

It’s an automatic, with Alvis’s unusual adjustable change-point control.

It’s marked ‘HOLD’ and it allows you to hang on to a lower gear for descending steep hills, or just ensure the ‘box waits longer b...