LIFETIME COMPANION

When a man changes cars pretty often, it takes something quite special for him to hold on to it for over 40 years, but that’s been the case with John Llewellyn and his 1932 Ford Model 18 Victoria. John’s lifelong love of old cars started in the Fifties, when he would go grass-track racing with stripped Austin Sevens. In the Seventies, he entered the world of stock cars with old Ford Pops and Model Ys, but by the end of the decade his appreciation of older cars saw him turn to restoration, and the Vicky is now one of many predominantly prewar classics to have been rejuvenated by John and his late wife, Jen.

The Vicky’s story begins around 1979, when John collected it from a seller called Richard (possibly Reeves), who had it in a barn in Godstone, Surrey,