Will require recommissioning Every major country has its own state car: the United States with Lincoln or Cadillac; the British with Bentley and Rolls-Royce; the former Soviet Union and Russia the ZiS/ZiL and Aurus Senat; and Germany with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

And in this respect, Japan also has a very special representative vehicle, the Toyota Century.

Introduced in 1967, the Century (named in honour of the 100th birthday of Toyota’s founder Sakichi Toyoda) was the flagship model for Toyota, reserved for the royal family, high level dignitaries and top ranking government officials.

The design is conservative, sober, luxurious yet functional.

The first model ran largely unchanged until 1997.

Quite possibly the only 1984 example registered to the UK, this very original right-hand drive 1984 Toyota Century was imported from the Middle East some years ago and has been dry stored in recent times.

The Century is fitted with Toyota’s 4.0-litre, VG40 engine, which is 40bhp more pow...