Supplied new by Graypaul on 27.5.10, this vibrant Rosso red Ferrari California moved to Monaco a couple of years later, where it must have felt as if it had found its spiritual home.

If there was ever a car that was designed and built for posing, cruising and promenading along the Côte d'Azur, it’s this one.

It sunned itself on the French Riviera, no doubt enjoying a sporting flutter at the Casino de Monte-Carlo or driving into the hills for a bottle of lunch at La Colombe d’Or, until 2015, when it returned to the UK.

The vendor has owned the car since 2024, since when he has kept it in dry, dehumidified storage.

It’s seen very little use between 2022 and now, which goes a long way to explaining why it required some £2,260 of expenditure at marque specialist Emblem to get it ship-shape and ready to successfully sit its MoT exam on 24th June 2026.

We have driven the car and, while it is perfectly competent and starts, goes and stops with all the élan and panache you would want from...