I just love the Classic Rangerover two door, or four door. They’re square, boxy, and as streamlined as a breeze block. They’re high up, you can see the road in front and behind, and over the hedge into other people’s gardens - what some of us get up to on our front lawns at week-ends is amazing.

Rangerovers are extremely dangerous if you oversteer or get a rear wheel into soft mud on a bend, or into the shingle on the central reservation of a motorway. If this happens always let the rear wheel “tramline”, gently holding the steering wheel against the obstruction so that it rides out by itself. Remember you’ve got drive on the front axle as well, and this will help to pull you out. Rangerovers don’t go fast, the rear hatch can fly up at a moments notice, the windows steam up, and they guzzle petrol, but if we all drove big engined cars, petrol would be cheaper! I love the purrrr of the old Buick 3.5 engine, and they don’t have to be expensive to buy.

They’re a little bit like a Landrover, nothing more than a big kit car. Don’t be put off by the name, or the aura that has been built up round this vehicle. Anybody with a bit of common sense and practical skills, and, you’ve guessed it, a Haynes manual, can re-build one of these things. Everything is bolt off – bolt on; the problem is trying to work out where the devious designers have hidden the screws and clips. The other thing that annoys me is the number of spanners you need. Landrover must have had sixteen design teams all working from different specs when they put these monsters together. Rangerovers are the best tow cars on the road - there is NOTHING to beat ‘em!!