Finished in Nero Black with a red vinyl interior, ‘LDS 518A’ is a delightful 1963 Fiat 1500 Cabriolet.

Equipped as a left-hand-drive and built at the Mirafiori factory in Turin, it was fully restored in its home country back in 2014, but given how good it looks, you’d be forgiven for thinking it might have been done more recently.

With just 45,040kms on the odometer, a figure the seller has no reason to doubt is genuine, it’s still in the hands of only its second UK keeper.

He’s owned it since 2015, a year after it arrived in the UK, and has made good use of it, completing the London to Brighton run on his first weekend with it, followed by an outing in Angouleme, where it received applause from the crowd as it left the podium, something the preceding Ferrari didn’t… Experience has taught us not to have too many hard-and-fast rules when it comes to classic cars but one we’ve retained is that black is a tough act for an older car to pull off.

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