1968 Triumph TR5 Chassis X755 Prototype.

Concours Condition.

Part of the Anthony Hamilton Collection.

LKV 40F (#X755) is a very significant TR5 as it's believed to be the only surviving TR5 factory prototype out of the five built to TR5 specification from TR4A shells and chassis.

Now fully restored with incredible accuracy, the result is simply stunning and the car is recognised by TR 'Cognoscenti as one of the most important TRs of all varieties still remaining in the public domain.

TR5s are rare cars anyway with production of UK right-hand drive examples numbering only 1,161 units, tiny when compared with the succeeding TR6 which sold over 90,000 cars worldwide.

Its survival is undoubtedly testament to its early owners who, coincidentally, were involved in the car industry in Coventry and who understood the TR5 s importance at the time.

Relegated to a corner of the Experimental Department at Canley, it was purchased in 1971 by Alan Batten who worked for British Leyland in the ...