The vendor inherited this magnificent Silver Dawn from his father, who bought the car from Hanwells in 2017.

The mileage, which we have every reason to believe is genuine, is a barely run-in 30,695.

Prior to the vendor and his father, the car’s owner was none other than Countess Raine Spencer, perhaps better known to the world as the late Princess Diana’s stepmother.

That’s some impressive provenance.

But then this is a very impressive car.

Without the Build Sheets, we believe the car to be finished in Royal Blue, but either way, it looks appropriately grand and aristocratic and accentuates the car’s elegant lines to good effect.

The shut lines and panel gaps are consistent and even, and the bodywork is very straight and true, with no dimples, dinks or dents of any note anywhere that we can see.

Viewed from any angle, the car sits reassuringly squarely and correctly.

The chrome-work is devoid of any pitting, foxing or tarnishing that we can see, and the car’s external fixtures ...