With eight previous keepers, you’d have every right to be suspicious – but when we point out that this delightful Lambda has been in its owner’s care since 1963, you’ll understand why we’re as smitten with it as we are.

Bodied by Weymann - “Lightness, Durability, Cheapness and Silence are Prominent Features – on an eighth-generation long chassis, ‘KR 1647’ has clearly been the love of the seller’s life: He bought it in 1963 as his beloved Fraser Nash was off the road being rebuilt (which we are also selling) and he fancied driving something vintage.

The test drive was, he recalls, “somewhat swift, rather upsetting a lady in her new motor, who, either from interest or fright, scraped the shiny thing on an iron post at the side of the lane.” He must have taken things a bit steadier thereafter as he and his wife used it extensively on Lancia Club-backed tours across Europe and the Alps – and when she passed away, he never drove it again.

It also comes with an extensive history file, an...