which shows that it was first UK registered in 1983 and has had just one keeper since 2011. It also gives the engine size as 1,598cc so perhaps the car has had an engine transplant at some point, although you will have to make your own minds up on that score. An online MOT history check shows that it has only covered 2,019 miles since 2009, the odometer currently showing some 54,165 miles.
Clearly well restored at some point in the not-too-distant past, it has spent the last seven years in the Bob Empson Collection in Elsworth near Cambridge, Bob being the proprietor of Empson’s Garage, a family business in the town since 1919. The vendor bought the car earlier this year when the collection was dispersed, for no better reason than that his father used to have one when he was a child. Since he acquired the car it has sat gathering dust in a furniture warehouse which now needs to be vacated, hence the reason for sale.
In super condition throughout and sailing through its MOT in March with no advisories recorded, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a quirky family saloon from the Sixties, with distinctive American styling, that is ready to go and show.
