Description Impressive three-litre sports saloon; well-known VSCC car; interesting history; nicely restored In the early days of motoring, Hotchkiss sat firmly at the top end of the French motoring firmament, making top-quality cars of robust proportions and strong performance.

The AM80 was their flagship model in the early '30s, featuring a three-litre six-cylinder engine with seven main bearings and straight-forward over-head valves.

Contemporary road tests boasted near 80mph with a cruising speed anywhere between 55 and 65mph.

First registered with the London number GX 7173 in May 1932, this AM80 was still in London in the 1950s.

By the 1970s, it had found its way to Malaysia although by then was in a sorry state.

A three-part story relating to its discovery and resurrection is on file from the Malaysia and Singapore Vintage Car Register Magazine and it was repatriated sometime in the 1980s.

The vendor acquired it in 2017 from a small ad in the VSCC Newsletter having fallen in...