If you’re reading this listing it’s highly likely that you are the sort of person who nods appreciatively at a passing classic, regardless of the badge, because above all, we are enthusiasts.

We all remember the first car that made us smile, perhaps your dad’s car or maybe a shiny MG or Austin-Healey that passed you every morning whilst standing at the bus stop as a 14 year old on the way to school.

The remarkable motor car on offer here owes its very existence to that level of nostalgia, generated from a 15 year old’s first experience of going fast in a road-rally prepared Chevette back in the day.

With later success came the sports cars that one expects to see in an enthusiast’s garage and yet that memory lingered - could that first experience be recreated? With a healthy budget and some firm ideas, that formative memory grew into a compulsion to create something very special.

No ordinary undertaking and with only a handful of specialist workshops with proven experience of combi...