We know from the Alvis Register that when the TD21 with the chassis number 26095 was despatched to its first owner on 17th August 1958 it was wearing a Park Ward coachbuilt saloon body (number 18103).

Evidently, it’s not wearing that body today.

Instead, it has adopted something of the look and style of the Alvis Speed-Twenty, a car that was built from 1937 to 1940 and so predates the TD21by at least two decades.

A genuine barn find, this intriguing and surely unique Alvis is evidently a project but, we think, one with a good deal of potential.

It’s in need of some diligent recommissioning so, consequently, we’ve neither driven nor started it.

But we have turned the engine over by hand, so we can say with some certainty that it isn’t seized.

This car announces the fact that it is very much a work in progress with a bold display of different coloured panels that would shame a patchwork quilt.

Some panels are made of wood - the doors and the boot box; others are wearing a coat of ...