CAPRI lover Sandra Prince treated her white mean machine like a king.
She bought "Cecil" as a birthday gift for her boyfriend and lavished it with care when it became her own runabout.
Eleven years on, it cost a king's ransom to get through an MOT, and she could not bear to send it to the great scrapyard in the sky. She appealed to readers to give Cecil a new start in life.
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