History - Part 8 - Prove to work colleagues that car does actually exist

I was like a boy with a new toy the first time I showed off Hattie to my work colleagues and promised that they would be seeing more of her in the car park during the rest of the summer.

Catastrophe !!!!! only the very next morning I went to get the car out of the garage and whilst reversing out of the garage I depressed the brake pedal and it went straight to the floor, pissing brake fluid over my trainers, but the car was still rolling backwards down the small slope towards a neighbours fence. Fortunately, I forgot about the wet trainers and pulled on the hand brake. Bloody master cylinder !!

You can imagine the family's joy when I dragged most of them out onto the drive, still in their night clothes to help push the car back into the garage.

To my credit and against everyone's advice, I purchased a master cylinder repair kit. With Sean's help this was successfully repaired and the car was able to be driven again.

I did drive to work a few more times that summer, noticing that car was boardering on overheating on the 20 mile journey, but I had also by the end of the summer had also changed the spark plugs and the HT leads.