We know this car, because it’s been our way before.

Brought to us by a vendor who has a collection of fine and interesting classics, it was sold to him through us in June 2021.

As is often the way with even the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, his initial goal of thoroughly overhauling the car’s mechanicals, re-doing the interior and spending his summers exploiting its practicality to convey him and his surfing gear to and from the coast…well, they never quite made it to fruition.

Consequently, the car has sat in a dry, secure storage space for the last 5 years.

The vendor employs his own mechanic to attend to the needs of the various vehicles in his rather classy fleet, and entrusted him fell with the task of ensuring that the car is up and running and now has tuned and balanced carbs.

But that’s pretty much all that’s materially happened to the car in the last few years, save for the odd spin around the block to blow away a cobweb or two.

The one thing the vendor was resolute...