We know from the car’s original buff log book and its original service book that it was first registered (with the same registration number it has today) on 19th December 1963. Now, as it was when new, the car is ‘Opalescent Green’, having been resprayed to a very high standard at a cost north of £8,000 as part of a 2-year restoration that began in 2013. The vendor has owned the car since 10.11.25. He bought the car on the strength of its condition, and the quality and sensitivity of the nut and bolt restoration it received between 2013 and 2015, during which time it did a good job of emptying the shelves at both David Manners Ltd and Martin Robey Ltd in its appetite for genuine Daimler parts. The car is in very good overall aesthetic and mechanical condition. It also starts on the button and handles, performs and stops with all the classy competence and quiet capability for which these cars are rightly lauded.

This car really does present exceptionally well from every angle. The pane...