Delivered on the 8th June 1950 to a Mr. K.

Suttil, ‘532 UXJ’ is one of the last Lea-Francis Four Light cars to have been built.

He was clearly smitten by his new car because it stayed in his hands well into the 1980s, receiving a replacement engine in 1956.

Little is known about the second owner but the third was a German car collector called Rudi Scherzinger.

The famous TV doctor Dr Hilary Jones bought it from Mr Scherzinger in 1997, and kept for the next nine years.

It then moved to an Estonian motor museum where it was on display for many years before moving into the seller's hands eighteen months ago via a Dutch auction house.

Wonderfully, he’d come close to buying a Four Light when he was 20 years old but ultimately couldn’t afford it, so buying this one enabled him to achieve his lifelong dream almost 60 years later.

Finished in black with a brown leather interior, he wasted no time in commissioning Brewster Mudie Ltd, the Coventry-based Lea-Francis specialist and parts su...