The first "owner" (1981-82)was Philipson, the at that time general agent in Sweden for Mercedes Benz and Simca(Talbot) The car was used by the service manager for Philipson´s Gothenburg branch. The second owner (1982-85)was a pretty school teacher.... I, or rather my wife (also a school teacher and pretty), is the third owner since April 1985. The car was used regularely by both of us until November 1991. Since then it has been stored in various barn houses some 80km away from where I live. It has only covered some 90000km totally. It is undergoing a very slow "restoration". The only bad (body-) parts are the bottoms of the doors and the piece in front of the windscreen. I have replacement metal for the doors and will fix them "soon". All the difficult plastic/fiberglass parts are as new. The reflectors of the two large lamps in the front bumper have rusted and need to be replaced. The Swedish Ranchos all had one search lamp on the left hand side of the windscreen and that one corroded early but I bought a new one in Hamburg in 1987. The gearbox was renovated(mostly 2:n gear) by a specialist in 1988.