The vendor, who owns a classic and vintage car hire business, also has a personal collection of fine classics, which should come as no surprise when you learn that his mother was a very successful rally driver and his father a world authority on car restoration.

Suffice to say that this car, like the others in his collection and business, has been maintained to the very highest standards, regardless of time or cost implications, with all routine work entrusted to Overton Vehicle Overhauls of Shoeburyness and other, more specialist work consigned to the best and most appropriate experts.

Eagle-eyed observers among you will have noted the car’s GTBi badging, which would suggest that a fuel injection system is in place.

Well, there is a fuel injection system, the original one, and it does come with the car, but it’s not attached to it.

The reason being, of course, is that a previous owner saw fit to replace the injection system with the more powerful carburation system that featured i...