A 1956 Bristol that travelled 33,000 miles around the world over 16 months, is having a well-earned rest by going on display at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, London from 3 January.
The 405 Drophead, of which just 42 were made, was piloted on the adventure by Royal Automobile Club member and Bristol Owners' Club president Geoffrey Herdman and his wife, Hilary.
Herdman's "wrinkly gap year" involved driving up the east coast of North America to Halifax before crossing Canada and then heading south down the west coast. After a couple of months in South America, they headed across to Australia before the car was shipped back via Turkey for the drive home.
He said: "Central America was perhaps the most exciting part of the trip. There were no signposts or GPS coverage. The first night in Guatemala, having taken three hours to cross the frontier, we climbed for an hour in first gear on precipitous narrow roads.
"Long after dark we gave up trying to reach Lake Atitlan and stayed in a roadside hotel at 8000 feet, it was bitterly cold and we were clearly the first guests to stay in a very long time.