Clive and I discussed on the phone the possibility of reliving an event from when I was a student and he was living in Bedfordshire.  One Christmas, 1979 I think, my Morris 1000 needed its clutch changing so with limited tools, in an unheated garage we drove the car up duck boards balanced on bricks. From this precarious position we dropped the engine, removed the clutch housing and replaced the knackered parts. Everything we touched was freezing and our fingers stuck to the metal but it was fun.

This time the temperature was in the mid twenties and we had a toolbox brimming with spanners. Clive's Fiat Cinquecento was to be upgraded with generator instead of its aging dynamo.  After two hours we'd got most of the parts off and it took another hour to squeeze the fan cowling off. After lunch we started to get the new part ready for installation only to find the shaft was too big and none of the fitments matched. Clive is going to have to order some new parts.

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