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Great,
I was watching a very early Wheeler Dealers tother day and Edd the Chinaplate was changing an alternator on a Lancia Integrale. Same sort of difficulty, he had to take it out from under the offside wing, after discumknockerating the suspenders.
I had a chat yessdi with Andy Saunders the funny car bloke of smallest mini fame who has done my MOTs I worked out today, for 34 years, . He has worked with Edd on several programmes and I asked him what Edd was actually like, and he said "He knows fuck all!", and he only got where he got cos he is public school! He got jobs Andy didn't he reckons cos of that.
I told him I'd read Edd's book and that he was very complimentary about him, Andy, which made him laugh. I was going to lend him the book when I went back for retest but he surprised me by saying "pop over now if you like" so i threw all the tools back in the Disco and just ran over there, through the sh!t Friday arvo traffic. Forgot the book.
Anyway he and his girlfriend are very keen to buy W's Speedster. After we get back from Frogland.
However, very sad news.
He is so ground down by his MOT and repair business, he's perpetually run off his feet as he just cannot get decent staff, that he told me quietly he is jacking it in and getting planning permission to put up flats where his business is.
So where the feck am I gonna find a decent fair MOT guy now?
Expect it'll all take time.
(Disco failed on ball joint on draglink thingy. Bit fiddly to fit but did it within an hour or so of getting the bit.)
I thought it was common knowledge that Edd the horse was a talented speaker.
Shame about the chap jacking it in.