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So, that was expensive, but what can you do.

So I found an original owner's manual for the BF-generation Mazda 323 on eBay!

It was only £7.50 on eBay.

From HN wag __s: [T]his is why quantum computers have to be kept at very low temperatures as opposed to asking everyone to look away from the computer while it operates

Milestone: actual working car that is taxed and MOTed and insured!

I withdrew from social media at the start of that whole global pandemic thing.

Perhaps this might become a series: lazy one-or-two sentence reviews of things from the Internet's reduced-to-clear aisle that I've watched in the last month.

I bought Mazda Amy without caring about the mileage.

Off for final MOT prep at Setch MOT centre.

I'd paid almost no attention to the interior of Mazda Amy so far, because there seemed like little point in doing so while I might still be in and out of there with tools and boots.

Mazda Amy may not be the most powerful car in the world, or even more than slightly quick by modern standards.

On my brief test movements with Mazda Amy, it always struck me that her gear change was always awfully vague.

Bumper restoration with Gtechniq C4.

Lockdown is awful, but on the upside, it is giving me a chance to do all those jobs I haven't had time to do otherwise.

Sometimes, when I show things to not-car people, I often comfort them with "nah, it's just surface rust", because rust isn't actually all that scary (for someone that mostly works on old shit cars).