Is John Rand the world’s most dedicated Lotus Europa owner?
He’s owned 14 of them and loved each one. “My parents wouldn’t buy one for me so I bought my own, my first one, for my 21st birthday in 1975,” he says. “Mum and Dad were right to refuse me because I smashed it up the next day. I put it into a telegraph pole then had to learn how to work with fibreglass to repair it because I couldn’t afford to have someone else do it.