The Lancia on offer is an example of a vintage special, having been built by Richard Thompson in the early 1980’s from the mechanical parts of a Lancia Aprilia.

These have then been assembled onto a 1934 MG PA boxed chassis.

The chassis had to undergone some surgery to allow the transplant to work.

It has been cut, inverted, reversed and plated to produce a very un-Abingdon-like structure that matches up with the Lancia independent suspension systems.

The overhead camshaft 1350cc Lancia engine has been restored, tuned and runs on a Shorrocks supercharger with a modest six psi boost, about 70bhp is produced.

The running gear which is all Lancia, incorporates the original four speed gearbox and the MG cart springs have been replaced by Lancia independent suspension at all four corners.

At the front end, this is by the well-known coil springs and dampers, whilst at the rear, a transverse semi-epileptic spring is coupled to torsion bars with short trailing arms.

The disc wheels use ...