This Citroën 2CV van, or AK250 Fourgonnette as it is more correctly known, left the showroom with the rare Weekender option comprising a rear bench seat the owner could fit at, well, the weekend the idea being it could be a work van during the week and still serve as family transport on his days off.

First registered in France in 1973, it came into the ownership of a Dutchman who did some restoration where the original 435cc engine and front drum brakes were replaced with the later 602cc engine and disc brakes.

The seller acquired it in 2019 from a Dutch classic car dealer and set about changing the speedometer from one that reads in kilometres-per-hour to miles-per-hour.

He actually found two new-old-stock Jaeger items and being a man with an eye to the future snapped them both up.

One is fitted and shows the 4,000-odd miles it’s accrued in his hands, while the second remains unused and forms part of the spares package that comes with the 2CV, along with the original unit which sh...