The donor car was sourced and bought by Frontline Developments sometime around 2015, at which point it passed into the hands of their ridiculously talented skunk-works team to be transformed, as only they can, into something brilliantly engineered, exquisitely crafted, unbelievably capable, wholly uncompromised and utterly unique.

In 1973 an MGB GT with a 1.8 litre engine might have managed 105mph and covered 0-60mph in a tad under 12 seconds, given a following wind.

And that’s if you’d pumped it full of high-octane fuel, poked it in the eye with a sharp stick, and insulted it…..in German.

For context, a Lamborghini Miura P4000 SV of the same era could get to 60mph in 6.7 seconds, as could a Ferrari 308 GTB.

And then along came Frontline Developments and the LE50.

It was described by no less a luminary of the motoring press than Tiff Needell as follows - “It's got all the great characteristics of an old car combined with the best of a new car: it is the best of both worlds.” The v...