Year of manufacture 1962 Recorded mileage n/a Asking price £POA Vendor Marcel Roks Consultants, Baarle Hertog, Belgium; 0032 476 886518; mroks.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price n/a Max power 115bhp Max torque

From fastest selling new Vauxhall of all time to rare classic, here’s how to buy the very best example that you can…

ASKING £4995 PRICE ENGINE 987cc/4-cyl/OHC POWER 75bhp@6000rpm TORQUE ...

Year of manufacture 1974 Recorded mileage 68,500km Asking price €52,500 Vendor FS Automóveis, Lisbon, Portugal; 00351 918660398; fsautomoveis.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price £1997 Max power 130bhp Max torqu

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Had things gone to plan, then the Bristol 412 wouldn’t exist at all. In an alternative world, the successor to the Series 5 Bristol Type 411, the Type 600, would have been launched in 1973, a year tha