Finished in Sahara Dust, ‘ERH 188T’ is a 1979 three-door Range Rover Classic ‘Suffix F’.

With a good history and a pleasingly unpretentious and largely original interior, it sits on period-correct Rostyle steel wheels and is said to be “in excellent condition and fully working”.

Still fitted with the original specification 3.5-litre V8 petrol engine and the four-speed manual gearbox, it’s stayed true to the original concept of being little more than a luxurious version of the Land Rover on whose mechanical components it leans on so heavily.

While it would benefit from a little TLC, it offers all the three-door period-charm we love in our classic Range Rovers but for considerably less than the very earliest examples are now fetching.

The panel alignment is very good.

Never great, even when new, this one looks like it’s had some time spent on massaging them into place, which makes us think it’s been restored at some point, which is a bonus.

Regardless of metalwork, it has clearly r...