DEBUTANTE BALLER

Think back to your first car. Perhaps – if you’re anything like us – it was a rusty old hatchback, picked up for a few hundred quid and thrashed to death before heading to the scrapyard a few months later. Or maybe it was something new on finance, a frugal runabout with a food-blender under the bonnet and a black box inside.

Either way, the two key facts about most people’s first cars are that they’re a bit rubbish, and they don’t stick around for long.

Jez Bonner is a little different from the norm. This Escort was his first car, and it’s stuck with him through thick and thin; he bought it when he was 17, way back in 1995, for the princely sum