With just four former keepers, ‘H875 SVH’ belongs to the directors of a car dealership; bought in 2015, they’ve enjoyed driving it so much they’ve hung onto it for the past eleven years – and we don’t need to tell you how rare that is, given the thousands of cars that have passed through their hands in that time.

But then it is a rather nice example: Finished in Metallic Blue Black (colour code 199) it enjoyed a good start in life with no fewer than six main-dealer services in its first four years before moving into the independent world where it received another seven services in eight years, six of them from the same garage.

With 90,000 miles on the odometer it’s little more than nicely run-in and while the paintwork needs attention the corollary of that is this very solid example is probably going to sell for way less than you think.

Shall we cut to the chase: The paintwork is in a poor condition with cracked paint on the bonnet, blistering to the offside front wing, chips on the...