It's rare - one of only six ever made - and it's original, never having been repaired or restored. But there's a snag: this classic 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RS - for sale for the princely sum of £365,000 - is guaranteed to have been pushed to its limits and beyond. That's because it's former owner was James Hunt, who won the 1976 Formula One world title with McLaren.
Hunt was given the race-bred 911 RS 3.0 by Lord Hesketh, the owner of his previous F1 team, Hesketh Racing. He owned the right-hand-drive RS from new in June 1974 through to the end of his championship-winning year.
Hunt's status as one of Britain's sporting heroes - he stole the world championship from Niki Lauda and Ferrari by a single point in one of the most dramatic head-to-heads ever seen in F1 - means the car's owner, Nick Whale, is confident it will be snapped up soon. "I've had calls from UK buyers and foreign buyers," said Whale, a specialist sports car trader in Warwickshire. "The Hesketh/Hunt connection makes it uniquely British and it would be nice if it didn't go abroad."
The car is in original condition. How many of its 30,000 miles were notched up by Hunt while driving between visits to girlfriends rather than grand prix circuits is unknown.