This 997.1 Carrera Coupé has been very fortunate throughout its life because it has always been diligently (and expensively) maintained, serviced, repaired, fettled and kept in excellent mechanical health by main dealers and specialists in a timely and methodical fashion.

It’s fine state of preservation – dynamically, mechanically and aesthetically – is impressive even for its very reasonable mileage of just 76,000, let alone its 21 years of carefully curated life.

The vendor believes that he is just the third owner of the car from new and he has been the car’s keeper since 2017, or 23,000 miles ago.

The car starts, drives, handles and stops with all the ability and competence that’s rightly associated with the model and the marque.

There are no creaks, rattles, whistles or clunks to detract from the sonorous soundtrack of the flat-six behind you, and everything feels as well-screwed-together and over-engineered as we’ve come to expect and admire from the Meister Technikers of Zuff...