My first car, a 1989 Austin Mini, was a tinkerer's delight.
My first car, a 1989 Austin Mini, was a tinkerer's delight.
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Following the photographs in my Haynes manual, beardy men with hammers and spanners helped me diagnose and fix just about everything that went wrong with that car.
But thanks to the computerisation of cars in the 1990s there are very few problems that can be resolved on a modern car without the special diagnostic computer owned by dealers.
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