Description Rally prepared and ready to go; Holbay head; twin carbs; overdrive; recent Michelin tyres; 1/2 cage; loads of history and success; great fun Built in the summer of 1960 and despatched from the Ryton-on-Dunsmore plant on 6th July, this Series III Rapier was sent to Herbert Robinson Ltd in Cambridge and registered LEB 478 a week later - an Isle of Ely number.

Fitted with an overdrive from new (working on all four forward gears), our vendor acquired the car in 2009 in partnership with his brother and has enjoyed it very much since then.

The engine is a slightler later Series IIIa 1,592cc unit which has been bored and fitted with a Holbay head which was reputed to give 96bhp when tested.

The car certainly feels very sprightly when driven on site for the photos.

It had been prepared for long-distance rallies by Malcolm Pickering in the early '90s, successfully completing the Rally des Alpes, the Monte, Le Jog, Rally of the Tests, Classic Marathon, Winter Challenge and HRCR e...