This manual DBSV8 comes to us with, we think, more history than we’ve ever seen accompany pretty much any car we’ve seen.

Every one of its 52 years is documented and accounted for in forensic detail.

We know where it’s been, what it’s been doing, who’s done what to it, what they did, and how much it cost.

Here’s the potted version.

We believe that this was the 133rd DBSV8 to roll off the production line.

We further believe that the now green car was a one-off shade of ‘Circassian Blue’ when new.

We understand that it was delivered new to Lord Kadoorie in Hong Kong, a billionaire industrialist whose family had done more than perhaps any other to transform Hong Kong from a steamy swamp to a commercial powerhouse.

Among many other properties and assets, the family owned the Peninsular Hotel.

The car was sold in around 1975 to an English solicitor in Hong Kong, then to a Chinese jeweller, also in Hong Kong.

At around this time, the car was resprayed white.

In 1981, when the car h...