There was a nice Victorian novel, by I think Jerome K. Jerome, called
Three Men in a Boat. The first fellow reads a Medical Dictionary and
realizes that he has all the symptoms of all the diseases except Widows
Knee. It's very funny.
Anyway, I digrease (sorry)...
It occurred to me that both the PO of my Healey and my good friens Stuart
and his TR6 own almost no tools. They drice around in a bliss with no
parts in thr trunk. Nothing happens. Thry just enjoy their cars until
something really big goes bang . As yet it has not happened to them.
I, on the other hand own hundreds of tools and work on my cars every week
it seems. I carry sapres for the spares. Things happen.
Then I began to wonder if it was the tools that were doing it to justify
themselves ! I bought a lovely MIG welder and the chassis on the Healey
collapsed. I bought a ColourTune and my carbs all went mad ! I Bought a
very nice compression gauge and a valve stuck.
That's it. No more tools. I can't handle the work.
I'm going to let the cars heal themselves !
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