This Toyota Celica convertible, registration number ‘E680 AYJ’, shows a former keeper on the V5C Registration Certificate but as the second is the original buyer’s wife, who put in into her name after he died, it’s really a one-owner-from-new car.

Which would be remarkable in its own right – and then you discover it’s had a minimum of one main-dealer service every year; it’s not often you see 38 main-dealer stamps in the book for what was a relatively modest car, is it? It’s still very original too, with a hard-won patina and evidence of preservation rather than restoration, something else that separates the great cars from those that are merely very good.

Showing just 42,000 miles on the odometer, a reading we’re confident is saying is accurate, it starts, runs and drives very well and everything we tested worked as it should.

Being offered with no reserve, we can see this ultra-original Celica attracting an awful lot of interest.

The black coachwork appears to be honest and origi...