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Where Mitisubishi's are falling from the sky

My father in law is a pretty amazing bloke. From the school of 'Roll up your sleeves and give the troubled machinery a well deserved hammering til it sings again' there's not much he can't fix. (I know this first hand as I've gone to him time and time again with the opening line 'Well Baz you'll never guessed what I broke this time..') And while he's a gun mechanic, he's also a bit of motorsport fanatic and has even gone to the trouble of carving out his own mini rally track out the back of his farm for his sons, his son in laws and himself to have a bit of a blurt around (you can find out more about it here ). And slowly but surely he's been adding a few more car bits and pieces for rally afternoon hilarity. Once upon a time he helped the other brother in law's brother with moving a car on a trailer...and came back with $50 and a 1989 Mitsuibishi Lancer for his trouble. Which promptly turned into his latest dubious rally weapon and e...

When the shed hits the fan

So I'm renovating my shed at the moment. And when I say 'I'm' I really mean that Baz my father in law is doing a lot of the important stuff while I grab tools, try to make myself useful when holding things and try my hardest not to get in his way. So far so good. Yeah, she ain't pretty yet.. Except there's a few things we've found so far that really makes no sense whatsoever..