The hardest of these Tried & Tested features to write are the ones where the car is, for want of a better phrase, ‘box fresh’. It’s always great to come across a car that has been so well preserved that it offers a rare chance to effectively buy a brand new example of a favourite classic, but there are only so many ways you can describe that a car is, for all intents and purposes, perfect.
Bought new by an elderly lady in Cornwall, the BX spent most of the next 30 years in a garage (very much against the famous BX advertising slogan) and covered only 23,000 miles – very few of which were driven in the 21st century – before it passed into the hands of enthusiasts in the BX Club. It has previously graced the grass at The
