Long before Ferrari began churning out mid-engined track rockets, they’d mastered the art of producing ballistic inter-continental GT machines of unequalled poise, pace and pedigree.

The 612 Scaglietti is undoubtedly one of the best among an already very impressive pantheon of front-engined cars from the Modena magicians.

We’re pretty sure Enzo would have approved.

It is in very decent all-round condition and benefits hugely from having had a number of expensive routine jobs carried our recently (so you don’t have to).

The cambelts were changed as part of a major £10,000 service 1,650 miles ago courtesy of marque specialists Shiltech of Loughborough.

Shiltech have been responsible for most of the car’s maintenance, repair and servicing during the vendor’s tenure of ownership, and the vendor has parted with considerable amounts of money in entrusting them to do a thorough job on each and every occasion.

Other recently completed jobs include the skimming of all four discs; refurbis...