Top of the Europa league: I’ve owned 14 examples of this rare Lotus

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.