Registration No: AGC 99 Chassis No: 32588 MOT: Exempt Beginning life as an AX65 Saloon, this handsome Roesch Talbot Special was bereft of bodywork by the time it entered the previous ownership during 1980.

Re-registered with the DVLA as 'AGC 99' some three years later, its present fabric-covered Tourer coachwork was modelled on an illustration in Anthony Blight's acclaimed reference work 'The Invincible Talbot' (plate 48).

Improved and developed by a Who's Who of marque specialists during the 1980s/1990s, the four-seater had its front axle entrusted to Arthur Archer for refurbishment during 1982.

At the end of that decade, Bill Barrott attended to its wiring, brakes, steering, suspension and weather gear, while Ian Polson rejuvenated its four-speed pre-selector transmission (AV215) which is understood to house 105 ratios.

Keen to improve the car's performance, the previous owner gave Ian Polson two BD75 engines from which to build up a single overhauled unit.

As well as re-white m...