1956 PARAMOUNT ROADSTER

1508cc petrol, manual. This hand-built, aluminium bodied roadster is one of three survivors of its type, built by the short-lived British manufacturer Paramount. We're told it received a full strip down in 1998, and today the odometer is showing 33,942 miles. Just under 5k miles have been driven since the car passed its latest MoT without advisories in 2012.

It comes with consecutive MoT certificates covering 2000-12, and a stack of receipts from the late 1990s up to 2019. The present keeper has owned it since 2011, and the V5C records only 3 former keepers before him. One of those keepers, according to a photocopy of the original logbook, was Lord Cranworth of Suffolk who bought it in 1973. Paperwork also includes various sheets of technical information and Paramount history, period adverts and road tests, and an original handbook.

We've found the brakes to be weak so they may require attention.

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