Sold with the V5C, various Daimler books, photographs, display board and certificate.

Daimler's DB18 model was introduced in 1939, (only eight being produced due to the outbreak of WWII), whilst some 500 examples were manufactured post-WW2.

Known as the 2½ litre or Consort, it was available in a variety of open and closed guises (though, most were bodied as four-door saloons).

Foursome Drophead Coupe designs were produced by both Tickford and Barker, while the latter coachbuilder was also produced the Special Sports derivative.

Powered by a six-cylinder OHV engine of 2522cc, the DB18 could reach 50mph in 17.9 seconds and had a top speed approaching 80MPH.

GCY's first owner was a Welsh dentist called Evans from Carmarthenshire, the second is unknown but the third, Thomas T.

Inglis, who owned it from 1963 until 1984 travelled widely with it, Sweden, Belgium, Holland Germany, Denmark and then in 1966 to Australia, where she achieved top speed of 82MPH.

The next owner was Keith Suth...