We understand that the vehicle was sold new to a Director of AMG UK and was bought 6 months later by its next owner, the vendor.

It has spent quite a few recent years in dry storage as it is one of a number of cars in the vendor’s collection and, unsurprisingly, he can’t drive them all at once.

The car has covered a perfectly reasonable mileage of just 71,775 miles in its 20 years of life and is in very decent overall condition, if in need of a little TLC here and there.

We have driven it and can attest to its dynamic and mechanical togetherness.

It has retained the model’s grin-inducing ability to delight with both its performance capabilities and its gloriously sonorous and throaty soundtrack of V8 burbles, barks, snorts and roars.

Viewed from a few metres away, this splendid C55 presents very handsomely and the bodywork is straight, true and free of any dinks, dents or dimples of any consequence that we can see.

The shut-lines and panel gaps are consistent, even and up to the ...