Highlights Beautiful metallic red paint 3.5-litre straight-six MOT and road tax exempt Has long MOT regardless Lashings of brown velour Overview Get on the blower to your tailor and order yourself a new pinstripe suit: we’re heading back to the heady world of 1980s executive saloons.

Enter the 7-series, which had been put into production in the late ‘70s and represented the pinnacle of BMW’s range at the time.

It’s exactly the kind of car you can imagine Rick Mayall’s Alan B’stard MP rolling around town in as he plots his political ascendency.

And what a place to plot in.

The interior of this 735i features lashings of sumptuous brown velour, wood veneer trim pieces, and luxuries like electric windows and an electric sliding sunroof.

And then there’s a suspiciously spacious boot at the rear, which is always a stipulation of those of dubious morals in political ascendency.

Now that this E23 has reached a grand old age, it is classified as a historic vehicle, and therefore free from...