After being discovered behind the Iron Curtain, this Amilcar—along with a second chassis—is understood to have been exported from East Berlin via Switzerland prior to being sold to Morris Frost of Florida, where a restoration was carried out prior to the car being used on the road.

A cracked engine block eventually took the car out of commission, and it was sold to a motor museum.

The car was eventually bought from the museum by British motor dealer, Dan Margulies, before being sold to a German client who then tasked pre-war specialist Keith Butti, trading as Tomkyns of Essex, with carrying out a rebuild.

It was subsequently acquired by Tomkyns prior to being sold, in partially rebuilt condition, to Cosworth Director Bob Graves in 1982.

Amilcar chassis of this period were not stamped—rather, the car was given a serial number beginning with “11” that corresponds with the latter portion of the engine number.

In this case, the car originally bearing engine “90032” would have been des...