Worcestershire woman celebrates her 50-strong classic car collection that includes a Lamborghini, BMW and an F1 car

Jane Weitzmann admits she has an obsession – and it is all all the way down to a Jaguar Mark X.

Purchased within the Nineteen Eighties, the basic automobile has led her to purchase “simply” the 49 extra, and they’re all saved at her dwelling within the village of South Littleton, Worcestershire.

Ms Weitzmann’s assortment contains BMWs, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and a Vanwall – a Fifties Components 1 automobile, and the one one among its kind on this planet.

“I believe my older son thinks I am barely mad,” she stated. “My youthful son goes together with me, as a result of I believe he enjoys them too.”

“However typically, they encourage it. It is my ardour, they know that,” she continues.

“They usually’re very joyful for me.”

Ms Weitzmann inherited her love of basic vehicles from her late father.

Like him, she stated, she likes “correct vehicles, vehicles which you can open the bonnet and really see what’s there”.

Her assortment features a sports activities automobile made in Italy by Michelotti and delivered to the UK in 1965 as a prototype for Triumph – the Fury.

“Triumph could not afford to place it into manufacturing,” Ms Weitzmann defined. “So, that is the one one on this planet.”

Nonetheless, one among her favorite automobiles is the Italian-made Iso Grifo.

“At [the 1967 British International Motor Show], John Lennon got here alongside and sat on this automobile,” defined Ms Weitzmann. “He truly did not purchase a Grifo, he purchased a Rivalto – however he sat in it.

“So his bum has been on the seat.”

Ms Weitzmann stated the vehicles are a pleasure to drive: “Fabulous. Significantly better than many of the trendy vehicles. The trendy vehicles are good, however they’re soulless.

“And these have soul.

“You get individuals take a look at you, wave to you. Over there now we have a Fiat Gamine in Noddy colors, so it is a Noddy automobile actually.

“And if you drive previous in that grown males will stand together with the street and wave.”

Ms Weitzmann acknowledges her pastime is pricey, however stated the automobiles do have a tendency to understand in worth – and she or he has no plans to cease accumulating simply but.

“I’ll by no means rule out getting one other one,” she defined.

“I like it.”