What’s the longest you’ve owned a car? 10 years? 20? 30 maybe? If that seems like a lifetime with the same set of wheels, consider 36 – how long Ockert Lombard has owned this Le Mans Blue Ranger SS.

He’s also been the only custodian, taking delivery on 28 December 1972 after trading in his Vauxhall Viva GT (with Superformance twin-Weber conversion nogal) to buy a car which would be more suitable for his growing family. There’s a hint of irony in the fact that the Ranger could so easily have carried the Vauxhall Griffin on its nose too – but it is probably just as well that it didn’t.