Imported by Archibald Frazer Nash (AFN) and delivered through Harold Radford, a coachbuilder and supplier of cars to the rich and famous, this 356 A 1600 Super coupé was sold to one of Britain’s most illustrious sportsmen, the late Donald Campbell CBE of Bluebird speed record fame.

Finished in Meissen Blau with red leatherette upholstery and tan carpeting, it departed the factory 17 April 1959.

Mr.

Campbell registered the car on 10 May 1959, being assigned number plate WXY3.

Four days later, Campbell shattered his own world speed record over water, recording 260.35 mph at Coniston Water.

As his late father Malcolm had done, Donald Campbell doggedly pursued speed records, first on water with his Bluebird hydroplane, and later on land with his Bluebird streamliner.

Campbell set a world land speed record of 403.10 mph on 17 July 1964 at Lake Eyre, Australia.

He died three years later at Coniston Water trying to break his own world speed record over water, crashing at a speed estima...