However, it is the auction of another one-off TVR, the 2002 T440R – being sold at this month’s Iconic Auctioneers Supercar Fest sale – that has really grabbed our attention at Retro Motor.

The history of this particular TVR is too knotty to untangle concisely, but strip away all the ups, downs and often sideways history, and this is a road-going version of a car former boss Peter ...