Benefits from mechanical overhaul courtesy of specialist Red Triangle Over £35,000 in restoration/maintenance bills from marque specialists ‘The Alvis has never been an ordinary car for the masses, but a mount for the sporting and discerning driver interested in a quality product, and in a car that still looks like a car and is ruggedly built.

By this it is not meant that the 3-litre is old fashioned; far from it, for the chassis is in fact as advanced as most.’ Autocar, 1952.

Announced in 1950 at Geneva, the new 3-litre TA21 model carried over much of its predecessor, the TA14’s, looks, but with new independent front suspension and an overhead-valve, six-cylinder engine.

Featuring a seven-bearing crankshaft and near ‘square’ (84 x 90) bore and stroke dimensions, it proved notably smooth and flexible.

Based around a sturdy box-section chassis equipped with independent coil and wishbone front suspension, a 'live' Salisbury back axle, telescopic shock absorbers and four-wheel Girling...