Yeeee HAH! She's through! She passed! This afternoon down in Deal, at Ebden's garage, our old girl passed all the checks and came away with her certificate.

There were a couple of moments of panic - she's not yet registered, so you MOT her as the chassis number, rather than the reg', and the nice man couldn't make his computer accept the chassis number in the Reg' Number field. Then she blew an in-line fuse, apparently because of a short in the rear number-plate illumination light. This was repaired and the fuse replaced, and the test began.

Now she's out, and I have driven her back round to Andy's Mum's farm. Andy has all the docs and can now get her registered.

Driving her was an unusual experience, for one not used to 47 year old 475cc cars of this level of (cough) sophistication - she rattles and lurches, groans and grinds, doesn't accelerate when you think she might (I was being chaperoned by JJ in his DS and we had to pull off the fast road into a parking layby at one stage, while a big tailback cleared. Excellent fun though. Andy is quite envious that I've had a drive, while he's still stuck at work.

More soon 

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