Equipment
RHD. Silver painted wire wheels, Dunlop Fort tires, Lucas tri-bar headlights, Hartford friction shocks, outside exhaust headpipes, Schneider Cup seaplane (likely a Supermarine S6) radiator mascot, dual sidemount spares with mirrors.
Condition
Very good older paint, barely used upholstery and bright chrome. Clean, orderly engine compartment but with oil seepage on the block. Dusty but barely used chassis. Replacement crankcase from WWII War Department stock. Restored 1991-1994 by RM Restorations, Class winner at Pebble Beach 1995. Known among Invicta owners as "Sandfly", owned by Dean S. Edmonds, Jr. since 1982 and sparingly used.
Market commentary
There were some 75 Invicta S-types built of which the vast majority survive, a not surprising circumstance in view of their "low-chassis" appearance and performance. An SS Jaguar 100 is beautiful but the "Low Chassis" Invicta is better. What's more surprising is that we've seen two of them sold at auction in the past month. This one was beautifully restored, albeit with a replacement crankcase, but it brought essentially half of what Bonhams got a month ago in Paris for a peeling original paint, original driveline all-original example at the Grand Palais in Paris. The difference is material [sic] but attests to the appeal of originality. This carefully restored and preserved example is the better value, but the Paris car was sublime and neither is an outlying transaction, just different.