The seller has owned this rather lovely Jaguar MK10 since May 2010, which would be remarkable in its own right – but then you discover that his father bought it from Imperial Motors (Cheltenham) in 1964, making it a true one-family-owner-from-new example.

And there’s more.

Because his father only used it for about six years and 22,000 miles before he put it into storage, never to be driven again.

Our seller inherited it and decided to recommission it 15 years ago with the aim of bringing it back to a condition that would enable him to use it every day.

This cost him £40,000 but he then proceeded to use ‘59 KAX’ on a regular basis, including – and this makes our point about gangsters in the introduction even more poignant – allowing it to be used for the film Code of Silence about Nipper Read’s quest to arrest the most famous gangsters of them all, the Kray twins.

Still finished in its original colours of Opalescent Maroon with a Beige leather interior, he isn’t using as much as he...