Based on a 1961 Alvis TD21 chassis, ‘282 PKL’ is, despite what you might be thinking, definitely not a kit car.

Oh no, it’s something far more interesting than that.

It’s a hand-crafted, aluminium-bodied special that was built and outfitted from Day One for competition use such as hillclimbs and sprints – so the presence of a tuned Chevrolet small-block V8, coilover suspension, side-exit exhausts, and disc brakes all round is, perhaps, less of a shock than it might otherwise have been.

Having seen only very limited use since being built in around 2008, it was recommissioned by Robin Lackford Motor Engineering between November 2020 and March 2022 at a cost of more than £72,000, with the resulting invoice running to four pages.

And it only went in for a respray, which tells you all you need to know about how fastidious the seller is – and how he simply refuses to compromise on the quality of work that goes into his cars.

The new silver paintwork (ICI colour code LA7W) gives it the l...