Few owners, the current since 2015; known history from new; last serviced less than 400 miles ago; highly original; running and driving nicely on site The factory build sheets show that this Shadow I left the Crewe works in December 1969 finished in Regal Red with Tan leather upholstery, Sandringham Beige carpets, plain Sundym glass and whitewall tyres.

Supplied new via Jack Barclays, the first owner was a Mr Marcus Tillotson, owner of Tillotsons Newspapers Ltd of Bolton, the original purchase invoice showing that it cost the princely sum of £7,694.

To put this into context, the average price of a terraced house in Lancashire was about £3,000 at the time and the average annual salary was about £1,200 so Mr Tillotson’s flagship publication, The Bolton Evening News, founded by his grandfather in 1867, was clearly doing very nicely.Mr Tillotson kept the car for over 20 years during which time it wore his private plate, 54 BRU, and it has had just five more owners since.

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