Built as a 1954 ‘short nose’ Le Mans car, ‘PJI 663’ is an L&R Roadsters D Type evocation that’s finished in British Racing Green and fitted with a tuned 3.8-litre XK straight-six engine to ensure it goes as well as it looks.

Unrestored since being finished in 1989, the seller’s been using it as something of a daily driver since he bought it in 2021 – and we really do mean that; he regularly uses it to do a spot of shopping as well as more traditional trips such as a run down to Angoulême, and various local classic cars shows in Scotland, including a Motor Show event at Dumfries where the public voted it Best in Show.

But then they would because he isn’t precious about letting children clamber in to sit behind the steering wheel, encouraging them to climb over the driver’s seat to get in.

You see, he was born in 1954 and had a Dinky Toy of Stirling Moss’s Le Mans-winning D Type as a child, and he’s keen to encourage a love of the model in younger generations, too.

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