This truly remarkable car was delivered new to the UK in 1968 and remained in the same family ownership for the next half century.

It has a 4-speed gearbox with a fully functional electric overdrive.

It is a matching numbers car and has never been used for rallying.

The current vendor has owned the car since May ’23, when he purchased it from a large collection.

Today, the mileage is 82,000.

In 2021 it was 79,761 and, nearly 20 years before then, it was 79,734.

So, as you have no doubt discerned, it’s been leading a very quiet life over at least the last two decades and the vendor has since done a lot of the work required to get it back into first-class mechanical and dynamic order.

The fact that he drove the car for 3 hours to bring it to our Oxfordshire HQ should tell you all you need to know about his success in achieving that commendable objective.

The car starts, goes, stops and behaves very impressively and, although there are a few cosmetic issues to address here and the...