We believe that this RHD car was delivered new to the UK and first registered here on 7.1.66.

The first known UK keeper bought the car, then priced at £1,900, in 1970.

He and his wife, originally from Jamaica, later moved from northwest London to Seigy, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

The car returned to the UK a year ago, having spent at least 23 years dry stored in France, during which time it was left untouched.

The odometer today reads 91,800 miles.

At the time of the car’s 1978 UK MoT, the mileage was recorded as being 80,232.

The car has a black roof and an off-white/cream coloured body.

Eagle-eyed observers among you may be harbouring a suspicion that it isn’t in exactly concours condition.

Well, no, it isn’t.

While the panels are straight and the gaps and shut-lines are consistent, there is corrosion, bubbling and holing to be seen in numerous places.

And yet the intrinsic build quality of the car is still evident, not least in the way the doors still clo...