The car is now home again with a new trailing arm and handbrake cable (that seems to have been broken by an over-vigorous RAC man), having been trailered up to the local garage who've always worked on it
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Total cost: trailer £100, repairs £195; or, £45 more than I paid for the car ten years and 73,000 miles ago
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The bad news came when I was settling up for the repairs. The garage is a family business and I was dealing with the owner's son, so I assumed his dad was on holiday, but when I asked after him the son told me that his dad had passed away in his sleep in March
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Then, as I offered my commiseration, he added that his mother had died last week
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